[Resolved]  Google — Google Anniversary Online Lotto

I have received the below mail from google anniversary online lotto, please confirm me whether it is real of fake mail.



from GOOGLE MAIL <advert.[protected]@gmail.com> hide details Mar 20 (20 hours ago)
reply-to claims.[protected]@gmail.com
date Mar 20, 2009 4:56 PM
subject YOU WON: Google Anniversary Online Lotto (Thanks for your patronage!!)

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Attention: True Winner,

Your email id emerged a winner of GMAIL "ANNIVERSARY" LOTTERY AWARD recently.

Officials in charge of relating the good news message to you did not RATHER they premeditated with the formal Remittance Director of the transfer bank (Natwest Bank, London) to get your award prize shared among themselves. Through the help of intelligent monitoring network system, we were able to find out the bad deed of the officials, we have been having so many complains from people whose fund have been diverted through this means.

After concluding in a meeting with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) held in United Kingdom, it was finally concluded that compensation payment of victims would be made through Barclays Bank Plc, London UK since the culprits has been brought to book according to law and fund retrieved.This is to inform you that we have just pass a NOTIFICATION to Barclays Bank Plc UK, to pay you the sum o[censored]S$500, 000.00 as soon as you notify them.

You are to forward the below personal details to Rev.Mark Williams, the claims agent to GMAIL "ANNIVERSARY" LOTTERY AWARD, London to whom you will send your information for the processing of your funds as soon as possible:

1. Full Name
2. Full Address (P.O box not acceptable)
3. Phone and fax #
4. Your age, sex and current occupation


Find Below his contact details:

Rev.Mark Williams
Phone: (+[protected]
Email: claims.[protected]@gmail.com

You are to send to him all the necessary information he requires in order to help you redeem
your prize.

Congratulations Once More!!!

Yours Truly,

Timothy Green (Award Co-cordinator)
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Hi there,

I'm pretty sure that's fake. There's a huge Google lottery scam going on as the people doing it and trying to get money out of you. It's a fraud. Don't give out any of your details! I got an email pretty similar to yours. I shall paste it after this comment.

Jenny
Below is the scam email I received. I almost gave out my personal details and it was so believable! Hope the fraudulent people are found out and locked away!

Jenny.






THE Google UK GIVEAWAY TEAM.
Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 9TQ, United Kingdom. P O Box 1010
Ph: +[protected], +[protected], +[protected], +[protected],
Fax: +[protected].
Open 7 Days 8am-8pm.

ATTN: GOOGLER (Winner),
You are welcome to the Verification/payment Processing Unit of the Google Giveaway Team. The receipt of your correspondence have been duly acknowledged;please pardon me for the late response. This is to inform you that your email address have been checked and it falls among our lucky winning email addresses for this year draw . Note, No purchase of ticket was required for this draw, all Participants (email addresses) for this draws were randomly selected from a worldwide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine(Googler) and other Google ancillary services and this is how your email was discovered and used among others for this year anniversary promotions. You have been confirmed as a winner of £850, 000 GBP(Eight hundred and fifty Great Brtish Pound Sterling) which is your winning payout for Category A winners. This cash is from the total prize money of £12, 000, 000 GBP shared among the 8 lucky winners in this year anniversary promotions. As you already know, your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 100, 000 email addresses on the internet and each email address was attached to a ticket number. Once again CONGRATULATIONS!!

Below is the Google Verification/ payment processing Form which have been designed for lucky winners who wish to file for their claim immediately. The Form should be filled correctly and completely by winners and must be sent back to me either by email or Fax( +[protected] along with a proof of identification document for final processing before cash pickup, Courier delivery or Bank transfer process can be initiated. You are advised to carefully read through the prize payout modalities below to know the mode of payment that is most convenient for you and make sure you indicate your mode of payment in the bottom end of the Verification/ payment Form.

1 - Personal prize Pickup:
All winners are required to come down in person to personally pickup their prize at any of our disbursement locations (cash pickup centres) here in LONDON.
Requirements for personal prize pickup are 1)valid Passport as proof of Identification 2) Tax clearance from your local tax office 3)Police report attesting their patriotism and crime free citizen of their Country and 5)Printed copy of winning notification and copy of birth certificate or affidavit for age declaration. Note that only the beneficiary (winner) have the right to visit us for prize pickup, friends, relatives or siblims have no right to visit us for prize prize pickup on behalf of the winner. This option is basically for lucky winners who can easily visit us in person with the above stated pickup requirements.

2- Online Bank Transfer:
Your £ 850, 000 GBP(Eight hundred and fifty thousand Pounds) which you have won will be transfer to your bank account via swift bank transfer. Condition: you shall take full responsibility of the necessary COST OF TRANSFER (COT) being charged by our paying Bank to remit your fund to your local Bank account in your Country or anywhere in the World. Note that your winning prize will be insured on a bond policy by Google immediately processing is completed for security reason and this will debar us or any of our paying agent(Bank or Courier company) from deducting or withdrawing any amount from your prize before getting to you. This means that, any amount to be charged by our paying Bank prior to the transfer of your fund to your Bank account cannot be deducted from your winning fund due to the insurance that will be undertaking by Google for your security reasons. Immediately you indicate this as your prefered mode of payment, your Cheque, winning certificate and letter of authorization shall be issued and forwarded to our paying Paying Bank. This option very affordable and reliable for winners who want their prize as fast as possible. I shall refer you to our affiliated paying BANK for information about the remittance procedure, requirement and Cost of Transfer.

3 - Courier Delivery Service(APC Courier Service):
Our international /Uk winners who are not able to visit us have been given the opportunity to secure their prize by using our affiliate International Delivery Company (APC Courier Service UK)in getting their prize dispatched at the comfort of their homes if able to meet the APC Courier delivery demand financially. This option has been put in place to prevent winners who cannot visit our London payout centres from loosing their prizes to the Company. If you intend using this option 2 maybe due to one reason or the other, We the Google Giveaway Team will however exempts ourselves from all liabilities/expenses that will be required by the APC Courier Company to execute delivery to you. Condition attached: you shall take full responsibility of the necessary shipment expenses that will be needed by APC Courier Service to make delivery to you if you cannot visit us. When you Select this mode of payment, We shall Contact APC Courier Service here in London on your behalf to get information about their total shipment cost of making delivery to your Country, this will be after the processing of your payment have been completed and approved.

Note: For you to be able to fillout the form below, just click on reply from your mail box then double click(click twice) on the space box by this way you will be able to write in space box. Alternatively, you can just writeout the required information out and send to me via this email in plain text if you are unable to fillout the form as directed.

GIVEAWAY LOTTO VERIFICATION / PAYMENT FORM

SECTION A: PERSONAL INFORMATION.

Prefix (Mr., Mrs., Ms., Dr.):


First name :


Middle name :


Last name :


Date of Birth (yyy-mm-dd) :


Sex/Occupation :


Address :





City/State/province


Country of Resident /Nationality:




Telephone number(s):

Mobile number(s):

Email Address 1&2:

SECTION B: WINNING INFORMATION / MODE OF PAYMENT OPTIONS.

Amount won / Date of notification


Ticket number / Serial number


Lucky numbers / CGPN


Payment modalities(tick on any of the mode of payment that you find most convenient)


Personal prize Pickup (here in UK).

Swift Bank Transfer.

Courier Delivery
I expect you to fill and return the Giveaway lotto Verification/payment form above within 24hrs upon receipt of this message so that appropriate arrangement can be put in place.
Regards,
MR. GRAHAMS BENFIELD.
Payment Release Department,
Google Lottery Board, United Kingdom
Dear Sir/Madam, Congratulations to you!! You have just been picked as one of our lucky winners of £850, 000 British Pounds in the on-going Google promotion.Your email address was attached to the following winning numbers that made you one of our lucky winners for this year draw :Ticket number: 008695***********, CGPN:[protected], Serial numbers:BTD/[protected]/06, Lucky numbers:[protected]).For more info/ how to claim your winnings, contact the processing officer (Mr. Grahams Benfield) with the email addresses below by sending your winning numbers, full names, sex and location.E-mail(s):enquiries.[protected]@gmail.com, [protected]@thedotmail.com.Sincerely, Promo Coordinator
I just got this e mail claiming i had won a prize.there are that many of them going around.
its hard to tell if they are real or not.
Is this one a scam too.Allen





Google Incorporations.
Stamford New Road,
Altrincham Cheshire,
WA14 1EP
London,
United Kingdom.

Winning No: GUK/877/798/2009
Ticket No: GUK/699/33/2009
Notification Date: 21/09/2009

GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our
winners selected this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the
active users 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 the Google search engine. Google is now the
biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it
remains the most widely used search engine, we ran an online e-mail beta
test which your email address won ?450, 000. {Four Hundred And Fifty
Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling}

We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the
requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and
satisfactory report Test conducted for all online winners.

A winning cheque will be issued in your name by Google Promotion Award
Team, You have therefore won the entire sum of ?450, 000.00 {Four
Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} and also a
certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winning cheque.

Mr. Treveor Allan
Google Promotion Award Team
PHONE:[protected]
EMAIL: [protected]@gala.net

You are advised to contact your Foreign Transfer Manager with the
following details to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:
VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM.

(1) Your contact address.
(2) Your Tel/Fax numbers.
(3) Your Nationality/Country.
(4) Your Full Name/Sex.
(5) Occupation/Age.
(6) Ever won an online lottery?
(7) Your Preferred Method of Receiving Your Prize (From Below)

Mode Of Prize Remittance.

(1)Cash Pick-Up (You coming Down to United Kingdom Personally to Pick Your
Prize).

(2)Courier Delivery Of your Certified Winning Cheque Name and other Winning
Documents safely to you.

The Google Promotion Award Team has discovered a huge number of double
claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties
about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of
this, these friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real
winners. The Google Promotion Award Team has reached a decision from
headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will
result to the canceling of that particular winning, making a loss for both
the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real
winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you
are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly
confidential until you claim your prize.

Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of the Google interactive
Lotteries Board Commission.


Sincerely,
Dr. Leslie Spears.
Google Promotion Award Team.
Here is the mail I got

from ©2009 Google Anniversary Lotto <[protected]@stofanet.dk>
reply-to ©2009 Google Anniversary Lotto <[protected]@w.cn>
to
date Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:26 AM
subject Congratulations: You just Won!!
mailed-by stofanet.dk

hide details 4:26 AM (8 hours ago)



Attention!!!
You just won Eight Hundred and fifty thousand British pounds in our Anniversary Promo. For more information about this, please contact the processing officer(Mr. Grahams Benfield) with these E-mail(s):09processingunit.[protected]@gmail.com, [protected]@w.cn.
Endeavour to send him your full name, sex, location and lucky number:[protected])
Wishing you good luck!!
This is what i have received

THE Google UK GIVEAWAY TEAM.
Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 9TQ.
Ph: [protected], [protected], [protected], +[protected],
Fax: +44 [protected].Open 7 Days 8am-8pm.

ATTN: GOOGLER,
You are welcome to the Verification/payment Processing Unit of the Google Giveaway Team. The receipt of your correspondence have been duly acknowledged;please pardon me for the late response. This is to inform you that your email address have been checked and it falls among our lucky winning email addresses for this year draw .

For your information: GoogleUK has successfully organized for the third time a Cash Give-Away lottery marking her 11th Anniversary in the UK. Over £20, 000, 000.00 (Twenty Million British pounds) is to be given out for this Anniversary Draws Note, No purchase of ticket was required for this draw, all Participants (email addresses) for this draws were randomly selected from a worldwide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine(Googler) and other Google ancillary services and this is how your email was discovered and used among others for this year anniversary promotions.

Your email address was linked with our Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN) and attached to the following details: Ticket number:[protected] / Serial numbers: / BTD/[protected]/06 / Lucky numbers:[protected]) / (CGPN[protected] was picked among our lucky winners to receive £500, 000.00 British pounds. All winners were selected randomly through a computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google search engine.

Therefore, Your winning payout is £850, 000 GBP(Eight hundred and fifty Great British Pound Sterling)As you already know, your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 100, 000 email addresses on the internet and each email address was attached to a ticket number. Once again CONGRATULATIONS!!

PRIZE PAYMENT MODALITIES (INFORMATION) :

1 - Personal prize Pickup:
All winners are required to come down in person to personally pickup their prize at any of our disbursement locations (cash pickup centers) here in LONDON.
Requirements for personal prize pickup are :
(a) A printed copy of your WINNING NOTIFICATION(the first mail you received from us)
(b) An International Passport or Drivers license
(c) A tax clearance certificate of your country .
(d) An Affidavit of age Declaration
(e) A Printed copy of your Verification form (you may be asked to fill
it as done before)
(f)police report attesting your patrotism and crime free citizen of
your Country (Note: You are only required to present the above documents only when
you are coming down to UK.)
In receipt of these requirements your cash prize will be made available to you after 24hrs. Please Note that only the beneficiary (winner) have the right to visit us for prize pickup; friends, relatives or siblings have no right to visit us for prize pickup on behalf of the winner. This option is basically for lucky winners who can easily visit us in person with the above stated pickup requirements.

Your claim deadline is 30days from the receipt of this mail. Inability to meet up with this stipulated date either due to none availability of some claims documents above, none availability of travel documents etc. may result to loss of winnings as funds will be re-used for
other upcoming draws.

2- Swift Telegraphic Bank Transfer:
Sending your prize to you through our affiliated Bank to your local Bank account. Using this option you must be ready to take full responsibility of the necessary transfer charges that will be needed by our affiliated Bank to transfer your fund from UK to your local Bank account. This option is very affordable and reliable for winners who want their prize as fast as possible without coming down to UK. I shall refer you to our affiliated paying BANK for information about the remittance procedure, requirement and Cost of Transfer.

BELOW IS THE REQUIRED INFORMATION NEEDED FROM YOU FOR FINAL VERIFICATION / PAYMENT PROCESSING.PLEASE ENDEAVOUR YOU FILL IN THE NECESSARY DETAILS AND SEND BACK TO ME ASAP SO I CAN EXECUTE MY DUTY AS THE PROCESSING OFFICER.

Note: For you to be able to fillout the form below, just click on reply from your mail box then double click(click twice) on the space box by this way you will be able to write in space box. Alternatively, you can just writeout the required information out and send to me via this email in plain text if you are unable to fillout the form as directed.

GIVEAWAY LOTTO VERIFICATION / PAYMENT FORM

SECTION A: PERSONAL INFORMATION.

Prefix (Mr., Mrs., Ms., Dr.):



First name :



Middle name :



Last name :



Date of Birth (yyy-mm-dd) :



Sex/Occupation :



Address :






City/State/province



Country of Resident /Nationality:





Telephone number(s):

Mobile number(s):

Email Address 1&2:

SECTION B: WINNING INFORMATION / MODE OF PAYMENT OPTIONS.

Amount won / Date of notification



Ticket number / Serial number



Lucky numbers / CGPN



Payment modalities(tick on any of the mode of payment that you find most convenient)

Personal prize Pickup (here in UK).

Swift Bank Transfer.

I expect you to fill and return the Giveaway lotto Verification/payment form above within 24hrs upon receipt of this message so that appropriate arrangement can be put in place.
Regards,
MR. GRAHAMS BENFIELD.
Payment Release Department,
Google Lottery Board, United Kingdom.
What are you thinking of this arnaque????????????????


> Message du 15/05/10 07:31
> De : "YORKSHRE BANK REMITTANCE UNIT"
> A :
> Copie à :
> Objet : YOU ARE WELCOME TO YORKSHIRE BANK PLC.HIGH WYCOMBE BRANCH UK.
>
> *YORKSHIRE BANK PLC. *
> HIGH WYCOMBE BRANCH.#48 OXFORD STREET,
> HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HP11 2XQ.
> Tel: [protected], [protected], [protected].
> Fax: [protected]
>
> ATTN*: GOOGLE LOTTERY WINNER (MR. CHRISTOPHE BOURDILLON),
> *YOUR APPLICATION FOR THE REMITTANCE OF YOUR GOOGLE WINNING PRIZE* *HAS BEEN
> ACKNOWLEDGED BY THIS OFFICE. FROM THE INFORMATION ON MY DESK, IT IS
> CONFIRMED THAT THE ABOVE NAME TRUELY WON THE SUM OF EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY
> THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING (*£ 850, 000 GBP*) WHICH HAS BEEN
> DEPOSIT WITH THIS BANK FOR REMITTANCE PURPOSE .
>
> FOR US TO PROCEED, WE HAVE TO TO BE SURE THAT YOU ARE THE RIGHT BENEFICIARY
> OF THE DEPOSITED FUND. YOU ARE ADVISE TO IMMEDIATELY SEND TO US THE
> FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS BELOW TO ME FOR PROPER VERIFICATION AND SCRUTINY VIA
> E-MAIL OR FAX .
>
> *No.1- PROOF OF WINNING* [THE CERTIFICATE OF AWARD ISSUED TO YOU BY GOOGLE
> UK LOTTERY COMPANY].
> *No.2- A PROOF OF YOUR IDENTITY* (ANY VALID IDENTITY CARD SUCH AS; WORK
> IDENTITY CARD, DRIVER'S LICENSE, INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT, NATIONAL IDENTITY
> CARD OR VOTER'S REGISTRATION CARD ) .
>
> THERE IS AN ATTACHED REMITTANCE QUESTIONNAIRE FORM TO THIS MAIL DESIGNED FOR
> ALL GOOGLE LOTTERY WINNERS. PLEASE PRINTOUT THE FORM AND FILL IT CORRECTLY
> WITH THE NECESSARY INFORMATION, SIGN AND RETURN IT IMMEDIATELY. MAKE SURE
> YOU ATTACH A PASSPORT PHOTO AT THE TOP END CORNER OF THE FORM BEFORE SENDING
> IT BACK. NOTE: YOU ARE TO SEND THE REMITTANCE FORM TO ME VIA E-MAIL
> IMMEDIATELY YOU HAVE YOU HAVE FILLED IT.
>
> YOUR APPLICATION SHALL BE GRANTED ONLY WHEN WE HAVE RECEIVED THESE DOCUMENTS
> .
> THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND CO-OPERATION.
> ON BEHALF OF STAFFS AND MEMBERS OF YORKSHIRE BANK, I SAY CONGRATULATIONS!!!
>
> IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT YOU FAIL TO UNDERSTAND IN THIS E-MAIL, YOU ARE
> ADVISED TO CALL ME ON : *[protected], [protected]* FOR INTERPRETATION
> AND FURTHER CLARIFICATION. .
>
> YOURS FAITHFULLY,
> MR CAMPBELL WRIGHT
> (INT'L REMITTANCE MANAGER)
> ================================================================================...
>

Google beta — Lottery win

I had recieved an email saying i had won some money but only realised after sending my details & after reading another persons complaint that it was a scam. Please help me in how i can prevent my personal info from being hacked. Thanks

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