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.