Today I received the following email:
Google Security Department®
Belgrave House,
76 Buckingham Palace Road,
London SW1W 9TQ,
United Kingdom.
Dear Lucky Winner.
We wish to congratulate you on this note, for being one of our lucky winners selected this year. 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 active and patronage to 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 balloting was carried out on the 21st of December 2013, without your knowledge and was officially released recently.
We wish to formally announce to you that your email address was attached to a lump sum of ?750,000.00 {Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} only.
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 alongside your winning Cheque.
Your Award Winning Details.
Code Number: GUK/3554749405GK
Ticket No: GUK/1008272745GK
Winning Number: GUK/99334353734GK
Information’s required from you are part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. To claim your won prize, please contact the Google Award claims Manager (McCarthy Robert) neatly filling the payment release form below.
PAYMENT RELEASE FORM.
*First Name
*Last Name
*Residential Address
*Telephone/ Mobile
*Nationality/Country
*Age
*Sex
*Occupation/Position
*Amount Won
*Alternate Email
*Have you ever been an Online Winner?
You are advised to contact your Foreign Claims Manager with his private email details below to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:
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GOOGLE AWARD CLAIMS MANAGER.
Dennis Morris
Google Security Department (United Kingdom)
E-mail: mailoffice1a@yahoo.co.jp
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For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information’s confidential till your claims have been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.
Note: You can fill your payment release form by printing and manually filling or you can fill directly on mail, or provide the details on Microsoft Word.
Please do not reply if you are NOT the owner of this email address.
Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Board Commission.
Yours Sincerely,
George Wilkins.
Regional Coordinator,
Google United Kingdom.
©2013 Google Corporation.
I sent them all the information they requested, and will soon be rich!!
Well, no. I didn’t send them the information. This is a scam. But I got a blog post out of the deal, so I actually am a winner after all, just not a rich one.
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