Lottery scammers using the Google brand name
The Signature Darwin sent me a lottery scam mail that actually has the nerve to use Google’s brand name. I guess I know one scammer who is about to get a swarm of corporate lawyers after him.
Here is the lottery scam mail using the Google brand, such as I received it:
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!! YOU WON A GOOGLE BALLOT LOTTERY
GOOGLE EMAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
FROM: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION / PRIZE AWARD .
PROMOTING INTERNET USAGE OVER THE GLOBE
( WE ENCOURAGE GLOBALIZATION)FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
GOOGLE B.V. Boeing Avenue 44 9459 PE.RESULTS FOR CATEGORY “A” DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,
the results of the First Category draws of GOOGLE
LOTTERY INT. We are happy to inform you that you have
emerged a winner under the First Category, which is
part of our promotional draws. The draws were held
on 15th November 2004 and results are being officially
announced today 17th of November 2004. Participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and
companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,
Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our
International Promotions Program.Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 50941465206-529, with
serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and
consequently won in the First Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out
of 1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the
winning payout for Category A winners. This is from the total prize
money from 2,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this category
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank.
In your best interest to aviod mix up of numbers and
names of any kind, we request that you keep the
entire details of your award strictly from public
notice until the process of transferring your claims has
been completed, and your funds remitted to your
account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming or unscrupulous acts by
participants/nonparticipants of this program.Please contact your claims agent immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice:
To file for your claim,please contact the fiduciary
agent.
***********************************************
Mr. Harvey Kurt,
Prudent Trust Agency
Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*
1156 H T NL-6400 AA SITTARD
AMSTERDAM
THE NETHERLANDS,***********************************************
You are advised to contact the agents by email
within a week of receiving this notice.
Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find
below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to
quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.Sincerely Yours,
MRS.ELIZABETH MOUS.THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
GOOGLE INT.N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of
the winners will result to disqualification. Please do
not reply to this mail. Contact your fiduciary agent
immediately.
Too bad, I guess both Darwin and I are disqualified now… Ha!
* I have protected all email adresses in this mail, since I didn’t receive these myself.
August 5th, 2007 at 3:45 am
This is the one I received. I played around in the first e-mail and this is the reply I got. Please tell your views. Thanks
ATTN: DEAR WINNER Cristita ,
This correspondence officially confirms that we are in receipt of instructions relating to the payment of your lottery winnings of GBP seventy five thousand british pounds Sterling.
GOOGLE MEGA JACKPOT PROMO is a way of showing appriciation to satisfy the cravings of the ever-growing number of in use of our product and website.
After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database of 300,000 emails and zoning all participants by their respective continents from across the globe, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the Promotional Grand Draw prize.
Please complete the form below with correct information and email back to us with a return email so that we can have a precise and comprehensive record of our winners. Your prize check has been vaulted safely with our corresponding bank prior to you readiness to complete your claims.
Looking forward to your urgent reply. THIS SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY THE BENEFICIARY OF THE STATED FUND, FOR VERIFICATION BEFORE TRANSFER.
BENEFICIARY FIRST NAME……………..
BENEFICIARY LAST NAME………………
RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS………………..
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH…………….
TEL. NUMBER……………………….
FAX NUMBER………………………..
EMAIL ADDRESS……………………..
BATCH NUMBER………………………
REFERENCE Nº………………………
OCCUPATION………………………..
MARITAL STATUS…………………….
NOTE : Your PASSPORT OR DRIVER LICENSE NEEDED FOR PROPER IDENTIFICATION.
DECLARATION:
I………………………………………………………HEREBY DECLARE THAT THE ABOVE DATA ARE TRUE. THAT MY CLAIMS AGENT SHALL ACT AS A FACILITATOR IN THE TRANSFER OF THE TOTAL FUND TO ME.
DATE……………………………..
(YOUR FULLNAMES)…………………..
For more information contact Mr Donald Duke
Phone: +447045712439
CONGRATULATION
BRITISH GOOGLE WORLD
January 19th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I AM GETIN VERY ANGRY ABOUT THIS TYPE OF PERSON DOING THIS SORT OF THING ON THE WEB.IT IS NOT VERY NICE FOR PEOPLE SUCH AS MYSELF WHO HAS BEEN OF WORK WITH ILNESS FOR OVER A YEAR AND THINK THAT MY PRBLEMS WITH CASH HAVE BEEN SOLVRD.