Email Fraud Alert received from: Constantin
I recently received an email with this subject line: re:Hello and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
Google Incorporation®
Promotion & Reward Office,
Belgrave House,
76 Buckingham Palace Road,
London, SW1W 9TQ,
United Kingdom.
Dear Google Winner.
We wish to congratulate you for being part of our lucky winners selected this year in the Google Promotion. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active use of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary services. Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be an active User and patronage of this company. Google is now the world leading search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, an online e-mail promotion was carried out recently, hence we decided to contact you to notify you.
We wish to use this medium to formally announce to you that your email address was attached to a sum of £650,000.00 {Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pounds Sterling} only as prize for emerging as our lucky winners. On that note a winning Cheque will be issued in your name by the Google Promotion Award Team, and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winning Cheque.
You are expected to take note of your Award Winning Details.
Code Number: GP/3554749405MDX
Ticket No: GOP/123/016/2015
Winning Number: GPP: 11000504622LSC
Be informed that Information required from you is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Hence you are advised to neatly provide the verification and fund release details below, so that we can guide you on the remittance process.
CLAIMS VERIFICATION AND FUNDS APPROVAL FORM.
(1) Your Full Name.
(2) Your contact address.
(3) Your Nationality/Country.
(4) Your Telephone number/Fax numbers.
(5) Sex.
(6) Age.
(7) Occupation
(8)Please choose preferred mode of Remittance:
A. Bank to Bank Transfer
B. Courier Delivery
(Please note that your details will be basically used for this promotion and will be protected by law.)
All correspondence containing your CLAIMS VERIFICATION AND FUNDS APPROVAL DETAILS should be sent to Google International Claims Representative;
Fredrick Heinz
International Claims Representative,
claimsvalidator@gmail.com
+44-708-762-4060
Once again we say a big Congratulation from the Staff & Members of the Google interactive Promotion Board Commission.
N: B this is not a Lottery, it is a promotion therefore if we discover any abuse or false pretense you will be disqualified, banned and sanction appropriately, hence confidentiality is advised.
Congratulations from the Staff & Members of Google Incorporated.
Regards,
Dr. Larry Page.
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer,
Google Inc.
Corporate Headquarters,
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View,
California, 94043, United States of America
The above email was sent by “Mark Jones” from this email address: cxcssxx@googlemail.com
I, Constantin, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Mark Jones”:
On the background of the word document is written CONFIDENTIAL.
Payment/Notice