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I recieved a strange email today claiming to be from Google, stating that I have won a lot of money in a draw " £500, 000.00GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our online Give-away 1Oth Anniversary draws."
The email copied and pasted in full below is either from a moronic, stupid, individual who believes that people will fall for his/her devious (lol) scam.
or Google have employed a moron to run their prize draw.( I seriously doubt this)
As far as I am aware Google are not running a 10th anniversary prize draw and if they were I am sure that they would have advertised it by now and eveyone on internet land would have heard about it by now.
From start to finish the email I recieved is a shambles, mistakes are everywhere, we could start a competition to see who can find the most of them.
Take a look below at the email.
the first thing that you will notice is that it is sent from a Hotmail account, Why oh Why would Google email anyone from hotmail when they have their very own Gmail hosting.
see how many errors and stupid mistakes you can find.
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THE STUPID EMAIL
from: mr_francishenson@hotmail.com
toundisclosed-recipients
dateSat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:42 PM
subjectAttn:
Attn: Googler,
This E-mail is to inform you that you have emerged a winner of
£500, 000.00GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our
online Give-away 1Oth Anniversary draws. GoogleUK has
successfully organized for the second time a Cash Give-Away
marking 2008 10th Anniversary in the UK. Over £20,000,000.00
(Twenty Million British pounds) is to be given out for this
Anniversary Draws. No purchases of tickets were required.
Participants for the draws were randomly selected from a world
wide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine
(Googler) and other Google ancillary services.
Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an
effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used
search engine, Google is running an e-mail beta test. Your
email address was linked with our Computer Generated Profile
Numbers (CGPN) and attached to the following details: Ticket
number: 00869575733664 / Serial numbers: /BTD/8070447706/06 /
Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12) / (CGPN) 7-22-71-00-66-12
was picked among our lucky winners to receive ?500, 000.00
British pounds. Winners were selected randomly through a
computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google
search engine.
YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW:
Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12
Ticket number: 00869575733664
Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06
Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)
To claim your give-away prize, send the following Your full
names................. , sex...............................,
Location............................Alternate e-mail
address..................Your winning details.................
To your processing agent (Mr. Francis Henson) who have been
assigned to handle your winning file and payment processing.
Your Processing Agent contact:
Mr. Francis Henson
Email: francis.henson01@gmail.com
We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.
Thank you
for using Google.
Sincerely,
Ms. Virginia Squier(promo. Director)
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Believe me, the lure of money blinds everything and people like me have fallen for it . I ended up spending about 41,000/- and ended up getting nothing . Please don't fall into the same trap .
Hey thanks for the hub....It is this type of scam that runs rampant across the internet. Which makes some legitimate opportunities seem too good to be true...Two years in internet and network marketing has yielded many a scam just like this into my inbox...the first thing that I would urge you to do is delete any email with a lottery or winnings claim....I usually just hit reply and then get the confirmation that the email address is invalid...Doing what I do...I nail every single spammer out there to a tree....People hate me for that but I want to keep things legitimate for those of us doing business online..Thanks again for the hub.
These spammers and Nigeria-billioinnaire dreams thugs cheats are in plenty on net for a few hundred dollars... good to expose them
Nice expose. These, unfortunately, run rampant on the net. Thanks.
Great hub Jimmy. But it appears that they forgot to ask you for your bank account number so they could deposit your winnings. LOL Chuck
This sort of stuff has been going on forever.
Bulk mailers, chain letter forwarders, and now in this technological age - Spammers - send em out.
People keep responding.
So they send more out.
You won't get rid of this kind of stuff until the part of the brain that handles the desire of people to get something for nothing is surgically removed.
No matter how much advice you give people to stay away, there's always that little, niggling voice in their heads saying . . .
"I know, but maybe THIS one is legitimate . . . ."
And the one in maybe one million who responds makes it all worthwile for the spammers. (@ Rajan - I feel for you! )
And results in clogged up mailboxes for the rest of us.
Thanks for the heads up, my mom asks me about these all the time.
I got one too. Really a stupid jerk who did this. nonsense? you just wait for your turn to be fooled....for those honest poeple out there help others fight this unwanted scam....too many and too much already....
Heres the one I received today...
Dear Lucky Winner , Permit me to start this mail by congratulating you as one of our lucky winners of the SECOND QUARTER of the 2008 GOOGLE E_LOTTO PROMOTIONS. In a bid to unify email services offered by all email giants, GOOGLE came out with its internet user rewarding promotions aimed at improving the lots of all email users.
The May winnings was spectacular as many email users were selected at random by e-balloting software. Due to high turnover for the past months, the prizes were quite awesome with our highest winner going home a whooping sum of Seventy Five Thousand Pounds(£75,000.00GBP).That was the highest winning since the inception of the e-lottery promotion by Google.
You are being notified because your email address was selected randomly by the e-balloter. Your prize winnings stands at Seventy five Thousand Pounds. (£75,000.00GBP)This amount is subject to change with time depending on the number of winners claims received by the claims depart of Google E-lotto. Below are your winning details;Winning Batch Number: GIL/96/05/07Reference Number:GIL/UK/ID/05607Pin: 4791Winning amount:Seventy Five thousand pounds. (£75,000 GBP)
To proceed with your claims, Send your response which include your name, contact details and winning details to our Claims Agent, Mr.Grant Tancredi email:(tancredi_glotto@yahoo.co.uk) Phone: +44-702-401-5857 Fax: +447-024-058-766
Winning Batch Number: GIL/96/05/07 Reference Number:GIL/UK/ID/05607Pin: 4791Winning amount:Seventy Five Thousand Pounds
To proceed with your claims, Send your response which include your name, contact details and winning details to Grant Tancredi for processing and remittance of your funds.
Once More, Accept our felicitations.
Sincerely,Grant For Google World.
I just received a email from Google stating that it was their ten year aniversary, and that i just won the same amount of money. Cant these jerks just leave me alone. I guess what the say is right. The love of money is the root of all evil. Darn scam artist.
i had a similar thing in my yahoo box a while ago , claiming to be from yahoo . of course , you had to pay a small fee to claim your prize . wonder how many people fell for that one......
What a Scam. How can these people send such mail and then consider themself smart and clever. They are the Biggest FOOLs on Earth.
Why would someone pretending to be from Google have a Hotmail address?? Stupid as a sack of rocks...
The sad thing is that there are people who fall for these scams! I also get fake phone calls, which begin, 'Congratulations, you have been selected...' (I usually hang up at that point.)
These people who send these emails to thousands of people are really quite smart! as there will always be people who are NOT smart, and think its all real and send account details or payments to secure winnings!!
I am aware of such emails using Yahoo's name , but the ones I received using Google's name have , so far , been about making money working for Google.However, those are mostly spams ( although not all of them scams) and obviously not from Google. I know that people still do fall into the traps of such phishers because the internet surfer is growing by the hour, but I was surprised to read the second comment here.
I also got this spam :
You won £500,000.00 GBP in Google Online Give-away promotion. Contact Mr Francis Henson with the following details below through this email: mrf.henson002@googlemail.com. YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW:Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number:00869575733664,Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12)
I googled bout this Mr Francis Henson, maybe these spammers experienced a bit by using googlemail. but why did they send it to yahoomail not to gmail if it's a google promotion? still such a moron..
haha be very very careful out there my friend cuz internet can be your best friends and your worst enemies
Oh really, this message reminds me something:as far as there is a stupid, poor will survives some how!!! :-)
Be carefully I recive one yesterday and one today following.
WE CELEBRATE WITH YOU.From:Awardheadofficelondon@microsoft.co.uk (ss.mmm5@aliceadsl.fr)You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as unsafeSent:Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:42:50 PMTo:
Yahoo Awards Center
BRITISH MICROSOFT E-MAIL SELECT AWARD FROM HEAD OFFICES LONDON 25st, 8. 2008.
British Microsoft AwardHeadquarters: Customerservice
33 Yatch Basin Marina Offices, UponTyne Newcastle London
Attn: Winner
Your email address have just won a Yahoo cum Windows live prize money of (ONE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) (GBP£1,000,000.00) today 25st, of Aust, 2008
Award winners emerge through random selection of all active email subscribers online. Six are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion.
Payment Of Prize And Claim
Winners are to be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. This Prize Award must be claimed in not later than 15 days from date of draw notification after which unclaimed prizes are cancelled.
WINNER NO: 4
These are your identification numbers: BATCH NUMBER:MFI/07/APA-43658REFERENCE NUMBER: 2007234522AWARD WINNING NO: 4
These numbers fall within the South African file. Thus, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Johannesburg and send your winning identification numbers to him:
Contact No: Foreign Transfer Agent
NAME MR CLEMENT DUBE UNITED KINGDOM MICROSOFT AWARD REPRESENTATIVE AGENT IN SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: 0027780791577 OFFIC FAX NO: 0027866476669 E-mail clementdubebma@hotmail.comclementdubebma1@hotmail.com
Kindly send the following information to your claim agent to facilitate the release of your fund.
1 .Full name................. 6. Country........................
2. Telephone Number........ 7. Fax Number.................... 3. Sex.................. 8. Date of birth...............
4. Marital Status..............
5. Occupation.................. 9. Contact Address............
10. Copy of your International passport or Drivers license.........
Once your agent acknowledge receipt of this required detail, transfer would commence.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
You won in google promotions with the following Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)
From:Google Online Lottery (googleonlinelottery1@mchsi.com)You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as unsafeSent:Saturday, September 06, 2008 10:38:08 AMTo: You are a winner of 500,000.00 GBP in our online Give-away You are requiresend the following details Your full names sex Address Mobile No Occupation Country age to the following mr newtonbrown(mrnewton.brown4@live.com. your winning details as follow ComputerGenerated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 Ticket number: 00869575733664Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06 Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12There is a female from North Africa who calls herself Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor age 23, Whose late father apparently left her $30,000,000.00 USD who needs some assistance to release the funds!!! What a load of Bullshit!!!!!!! Watch-out!!!!
One of the obvious thing to let us judge on wether the email is scam or not is the sender's email addresses. I can say 100% email sent via free mail like hotmail, yahoo mail, google mail are all scams. Why don't they just be wise a little bit next time not to send via free email? Coz it is too obvious for other people to know that they are SCAMMER.
BRITISH MICROSOFT E-MAIL SELECT AWARD FROM HEAD OFFICES LONDON 19th, 9. 2008. British Microsoft AwardHeadquarters: Customerservice 33 Yatch Basin Marina Offices, UponTyne Newcastle London Attn: Winner Your email address have just won a Yahoo cum Windows live prize money of (ONE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) (GBP?1,000,000.00) today 19th, of September, 2008 Award winners emerge through random selection of all active email subscribers online. Six are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion. Payment Of Prize And Claims.Winners are to be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. This Prize Award must be claimed in not later than 15 days from date of draw notification after which unclaimed prizes are cancelled. WINNER NO: 4 These are your identification numbers: BATCH NUMBER:MFI/07/APA-43658REFERENCE NUMBER: 2007234522AWARD WINNING NO: 4 These numbers fall within the South African file. Thus, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Johannesburg and send your winning identification numbers to him: Contact No: Foreign Transfer Agent NAME MR CLEMENT DUBE UNITED KINGDOM MICROSOFT AWARD REPRESENTATIVE AGENT IN SOUTH AFRICA TEL: 0027780791577 OFFIC FAX NO: 002786 566 8051 E-mail clementdubebma@hotmail.com clementdubebma1@gmail.com Kindly send the following information to your claim agent to facilitate the release of your fund. 1 .Full name................. 6. Country........................ 2. Telephone Number........ 7. Fax Number.................... 3. Sex.................. 8. Date of birth............... 4. Marital Status.............. 5. Occupation.................. 9. Contact Address............ 10. Copy of your International passport or Drivers license......... Once your agent acknowledge receipt of this required detail, transfer would commence. Congratulations!! Once Again.Yours in service, Dr.( Prof ) John Martins (British Microsoft Award Manager)NOTEYou are hereby advised not to disclose the content of this Prize Award until your money have been remitted to you to avoid disqualification that will arise from dual claim. Best Regard,DR. C. Mark Van Lottery Board Director
I got the same "francis henson" email today, and they are now sending it from the email address winners@googlepromotions.org, which looks more legit. i hope people still don't fall for it. if you go to googlepromotions.org, there is no website there - another easy way to check on the legitimacy of these scams.
Keep yourselves away from this kind of lucarative mails. This only leads you for mental and financial tence. I too received this kind of mail and handover this to Economics Wings and Special Cyber Crime Investigating Deptt. within seconds after receive these to nab the culprits who they think smarter in their own way. By now they will behind bars. But my sincere request to all of you to take away from this kind of mails. Bye
thanks for the warning guys,i had a doubt that the email was a hoax because it didnt have the offical google logo.
nice websitr
HAVE A LOOK OF THIS EMAIL & BEWARE OF SUCH SCAMMERS:
This Email is to inform you that you emerged a winner of 1,000,000 British Pounds on our on line draws.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 564 75600545-188 with serialnumber 5388/02 drew lucky numbers 7-14-18-31-45, which consequently won inthe 2ND category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay outof 1,000,000 (One Million Pounds Sterling ).
1.Full names...2. address....3.Mobile number...4.Faxnumber..........5.Occupation.....6.Sex...........Age......9.Email Address................................
Prize Claim Inquiries:Please Contact our Verification service center so that they can provide youwith more information's about how to claim your won prize.
FIDUCIARY AGENT OFFICERSir Barry OwenEmail: fiduciary_barryowen007@yahoo.co.ukTel: +447031922622
Faithfully,Mr Gerald SmithZone Co-coordinator for BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.Sweepstakes International Program.
I get these all the time, I have often woundered if people are actually falling for this.
I'm rich!!!
Received one like those, from same google online promo. The numbers are the same from Jimmy. So, we'll have to fight to see who gets the prize. See you on battlefield :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
The stupid email:
info@g-promotion.co.uk para undisclosed-re. mostrar detalhes 30 Nov (1 dia atrás) Responder
Your e-mail have emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our 1Oth anniversary online giveaway draws.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12).
Contact your processing agent (Mr. Francis Henson) who has been assigned to handle your winning file and payment processing with the contact below:Mr. Francis Henson,Email: agent.francishenson1@gmail.com
Sincerely,Mrs E. Squier.
Obviously a 419er. There are actually websites out there that bait these guys and get them to incriminate themsleves (or just make them look stupid) The best one is the 419 eater website at http://www.419eater.com/ The best one I've seen was the one where Chris Hansen of Dateline NBC scammed the scammer in to thinking he was going to be getting a bunch of MONEY!
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&bran
Obviously they aren't that bright.
I received the same thing! Anyway, I chased it all up, and they said
Send postage and handling charges to (etc.) to receive your prize. Yes, I think its a scam!!!
Well, Have a great day! Thankyou for confirming it for me, too, as now i know! Thanks!
If you were to run a competition for who receives the most of these types of e-mails, I'm sure I'd win! I've been receiving around 40 per day for the last 2 years! My fault I guess as I do encourage spam, in between the rubbish you can find useful info, but the things these people dream up are incredible!
I received one from an African who apparenty started the internet! Yup he was the creator and to prove it he even gave a link to a website that praised his achievements! Then there's the Christian Ministries annual giveaway of charity money and a link to a genuine catholic web site.
Lady Windsor, currently living in Africa but unfortunately dying of cancer has several billion that she doesn't want her family to get their hands on, so she wants me to give it to her cats, and THE director general of the Nigerian National bank is in the unfortunate position of having to 'dispose' of several billion that was left in an account by a presumed dead terrorist. I just need to send him all my personal and bank details together with a blank sheet of paper with my signature at the bottom. Of course I'll mail it first class!
Be warned however that some of these scams can be quite clever. I received one once from Yahoo, and it even had a link to their site so that I could check, well it looked exactly like a yahoo site and I almost, nearly......signed in !
Oh by the way, I forgot to tell you....the only one that isn't a scam is the google award, apparently they are celebrating 10 years and they're giving away fortunes, look out for it in your mail box but you must respond immediately or you lose it.
(Joking!)
it occures evey day online
i even received a mobile message claimed to be from NOKIA UK
what if i tell them my info?im such a stupid before to reply them.stupid me.what should i do?
So long as you haven't given them your banking details you should be safe, but if you have given them out you should contact you bank as soon as possible to stop any transactions before it is too late, good luck.....jimmy
this is nothing but scam to cheat people who believe in getting fast bucks . Do not fall prey. I too had recieved this E mail said to be from google but verified and found bullshit
i got a mail from ggogle new year promotion winning cash 500000 british pounds prize from google.on 1st january.i knew that it's a fake...not true but, i have respoced him by given ids & contact with them,..as a result...they have given me so many details ...or delievery opitins to get winning cash....& i tried to contact with them as given theirs number.....just come to know that ...how rudlly they are making fool to people..& now there after sending with all details....since i havent received any mail from them.....hope i will not get it again...
I had a discussion with almost 15 winners. they all lost their money.
Thanks for all your information. It confirmed for me what I had been thinking all along. This is my first time to recieve this kind of email. Once again, thank you all.
Your E-mail has Won in our End Of Year Online AnniversaryPromotion.SEND WINNING DETAILS:Computer Generated ProfileNumbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12,Ticket number:00869575733664Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06 Luckynumbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12)To:Mr.Francis HensonEmail:fhenson01@aol.com Thanks For Using Google.
My wife got the message today. The idle sod can't even be bothered to change the winning numbers. But his own e-mail is now giveaway.agent01@gmail.com.
An unusual feature: he gave a genuine return address, belonging to a (presumed innocent) hotelkeeper in Costa Rica.
i just got this exact email...I knew it was a scam right off the bat.
had to google it to see...sure enough...SCAM.
thanks for the hub. thanks for the warning guys. thanks for all your information. that so stupid email.
Dear Sir,Respectfully i beg to state that i have get a mail from Google 10th Anniversary Awards Centre Feb.
20th, 2009 in London, United Kingdom
Tel: +Tel: +447010513236 that i am win Thousand Great British Pounds (? 500,000.00) and organized by Google Inc., held on Feb. 20th, 2009 in London, United Kingdom.in the mail seeking of my personal information .so the requird data has been given bellows
1. Full name:2. Country:3. Contact Address:4. Telephone/Fax no.:5. Marital Status:6. Occupation:7. Sex:8. Age:Director of Operations: Dr. Cibor JeronimE-Mail:googlecenter51@hotmail.comTel: +447010513236Please do not reply if you are NOT the owner of this email address Congratulations!! Sincerely Yours,Google Management Sir,I therefore request to your organisation it is real or not kindly intimation me as early as possible.
Thanking you
Chiranjib Nath
India
got one too!
Dear Valued Customer, Your e-mail have emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr. Francis Henson for more details through the contact below: Mr. Francis Henson, Email: winners.newyearpromo.09@gmail.com Sincerely, Mrs Alice Galon
sent from a-galon@bezeqint.net...
thanks for the hub.
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Here is the mail what i got.
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You won £500,000.00 GBP in Google Online Give-away promotion. For more info/how to claim your prize,send your winning Ticket number:00869575733664,CGPN:7-
22-71-00-66-12,Serial numbers:BTD/8070447706/06,Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12) and personal details to the processing agent with these E-mail:claim.processing.agents@gmail.com ,mr.francis_henson2009@live.com
I have got one today! 13 mars 2009.
fromclaims@googlelotto.comreply-tomr.francishenson@live.com
todate3 April 2009 04:19subjectGoogle Give-Away Promotion(Congratulation)
hide details 04:19 (9 hours ago) Reply
You won £500,000.00 GBP in Google Online Give-away promotion.For more info/how to claim your prize,send your winning Ticketnumber:00869575733664,CGPN:7-22-71-00-66-12,Serialnumbers:BTD/8070447706/06,Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12)and personal details to the processing agent with theseE-mail:claims.processing.agents@gmail.com,mr.francishenson@live.com
This is what i received today morning -
Nothing to say more aftre reading above all comments abt it...
Just take it easy and keep doing healthy browsing..
Good luck -
this is really pathetic that these people make their fool by themselves i also recieved the same king of crap today morning. I just entered a few kewords on google n got information about the scam it really sucks man!
Why arent these scammers being arrested? How hard can they be to find? Somewhere in the money transaction there should be a way to trap them.
Hey guys,
I received the same kind of mail from some different id. Text of the mail is mentioned below:-
"fromGoogle Online Promotion ©2009 <mrnewton.brown4@live.com>todateFri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:41 AMsubjectAttn:mailed-byucsc.edu
hide details 4:41 AM (6 hours ago) Reply
You won the sum of 500,000.00GBP in the on-going Google promotion, you areto contact Mr Newton Brown The online agent assign to handle your funds formore information Email: mrnewton.brown4@live.com. send the following: FullName , Mobile No, Occupation, Age, Sex, Country. Below are your winningdetails Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 (NoTicket Sold)"
I think some group of people like want us to cheat.
But I cant get how they can steal money from us?
Please revert me how they can make money by sending such stupid mails???
Thanks,
My email ID is anandjiwalakeyur@gmail.com
hello everybody, at last, i get it also:
fromGoogle Online Promotion ©2009 <mrnewton.brown4@live.com>todateFri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:02 AMsubjectAttn:mailed-byucsc.edu
hide details 4:02 AM (8 hours ago) Reply
You won the sum of 500,000.00GBP in the on-going Google promotion, you are to contact Mr Newton Brown The online agent assign to handle your funds for more information Email: mrnewton.brown4@live.com. send the following: Full Name , Mobile No, Occupation, Age, Sex, Country. Below are your winning details Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 (No Ticket Sold)
Great Post, 10X. ;-)
Like P.T. Barnum said, "A sucker is born every minute." There's a strategy of generating traffic called email marketing in which from 10,000 emails you send, maybe 3% actually visit your site, and from that 300 visits 10 people actually buy from you. So if your product is $25.00, just by sending 10,000 emails you can get $250.00. There are software that can mine people's emails and save them, and software for mass sending of emails, so all you really need to do is sit for a long time in front of your PC.
I suppose it's the same with these false emails that trick people into spending and sending money and detailing their credit card info just to get hold of some elusive prize. So who do we think these scammers are kidding? A lot. The small minority that take them seriously, however, aren't as lucky.
Con people will always abound, if only because scamming the gullible is just another business opportunity, wherein the returns outweigh the investment. The post on email marketing above makes that point clearly: you just have to throw a large enough net and some fish will get caught; then you have to keep doing it again and again until even the not so bright fish learn to avoid you. Emails, phone calls, websites, pamphlets. The medium used may vary, but scams are scams. It's good you posted this to inform people.
I recieved the same mail today!
"You won the sum of 500,000.00GBP in the on-going Google promotion, you are to contact Mr Newton Brown The online agent assign to handle your funds for more information Email: mrnewton.brown4@live.com.Below are your winning details Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 (No Ticket Sold)"
Yup - 1 May 2009 and I have just received it. A much shorter one than yours, but the various numbers, including the "winning ticket number" were identical to yours. Also, it was addressed to "none", so how could I have been picked out as the winner? The address they gave for me to contact them was promo.announcement11@gmail.com. Though tempted to flame them, I resisted. ;-)
Hi All,
Got one of these today. So their scam continues...
fromAlan Carr <Alan.Carr@ucd.ie>reply-tomrf.henson01@msn.com
todateSun, May 3, 2009 at 2:04 PMsubjectGoogle Online Promo © 2009mailed-byucd.ie
hide details 2:04 PM (4 hours ago) Reply
Dear Valued Customer,Your e-mail have emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12).
Contact Mr. Francis Henson for more details through the contact below:
Mr. Francis Henson,Email: giveaways.promoonline.2009@gmail.com
Sincerely,Mr Alan Carr.
fraud people everywhere. if they could make million dollars, why they tell to us
also got one..
vanGoogle Online promotion ©2009 <winner@googlemail.com>Antwoorden opmrnewton.brown@live.comaandatum11 mei 2009 13:03onderwerpWinnerdetails verbergen 13:03 (29 minuten geleden) Beantwoorden
From The Email Ballot Of the Google Give Away promotion, We annouce you winner of 500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our online Give-away promotion.Your email address was linked with our Computer Generated Profile Numbers(CGPN) Winners were selected randomly through a computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google search. YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 Ticket number: 00869575733664 Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06 Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12) You are to contact mr Newton Brown For More Information. Email: mrnewton.brown@live.com Regards Google-Online Co-ordinator
Dear Valued Customer,Your e-mail have emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred ThousandBritish Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows:Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number:00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12).Contact Mr. Francis Henson for more details through the contact below:Mr. Francis Henson,Email: mrf.francis.g.promo09@googlemail.comSincerely,Antonella Puggioni
man, i thought it was true, but when i googled it, it was just a scam! shame on those who spread these scams! but really, i knew this was just too good to be true. hehehe
I recieved exactly the same email today!!!! with the same lucky numbers! of course it is a lie!
who would fall for this ?
Hi...dude good informetion
I also gat the same mail.....this not one of it kind i have got many of these please check below..
fromcheke usu <cheke503@msn.com>reply-tochekeusu@gmail.comtodateThu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:45 PMsubjecta good businessmailed-bymsn.comhide details Apr 23 Reply
Hi,I will like you to help me, in the transfer of fund worth($3.2Million) into your account, we have to share it 50%to 50% and i believe that you can not cheat me after thetransfer, i will send you more detail about this transfer assoon as i hear from you. pls reply at:chekeusu@gmail.com
then hi send me the next mail...
fromcheke usu <cheke03@live.fr>tomanish.morey@gmail.comdateFri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:28 PMsubjectread in detailmailed-bylive.frhide details Apr 24 Reply
Dear Manish, read this message in detail for your full understanding about this transaction. I am CHEKE USU. the Director in charge of Auditing section Bank Of Africa (B.O.A). Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise. AS IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW, I GOT YOUR IMPRESSIVE INFORMATION THROUGH THE INTERNET SEARCH HERE IN OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO. I FASTED AND PRAYED FOR THREE DAYS BEFORE I CONTACT YOU TO BE MY PARTNER. I have decided to contact you on a project that will be very beneficial for both of us. During our auditing in this Bank,I came across some amount of money belonging to a deceased foreigner who died with his wife and their three children in a plane crash.The fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank without any claim of the fund in our custody from his relation before my discovery to this development. The said amount is U.S $3.2.00(THREE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS).Our Banking law stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after 5 years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin. I dont want this money to go into the Bank's treasury as unclaimed Bill. Be assured that this transaction is 100% risk free. On conclusion of this Project, you will be entitled to 40% of the total sum as gratification, while 60% will be for me. Please you have been adviced to keep "top secret" as I am still in service and intend to retire from service after I conclude this deal with you. I will fly down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously indicated and further investment will be discussed. On your acceptance to be my partner, i will send you a text of application to fill and send to the bank for payment approval.Regards.Cheke Usu
this in not his real name ....the sender ramain unknow....please dont get in to it......its a scam...i have searched ont net for this....
after some dayes they ask you for money for a parsal..to send to you...and so on....
Hey jimmy thanks for this, i googled this, as it wasnt picked up in my spam, as all others do. If it was true jimmy, then you have been cheated, as i had the same numbers as you, but i won 850k GB Pounds..alas i shall not collect as i feel all this money would ruin my life..LOL.. How stupid do they think we are (or nearly)
I received this kind of e-mail , i just contacted the RCMP and the SQ in Canada at www.phonebuster.com. We should always act as so, this is the only way we hope this kind of junk will disapear from the net, But there will always be intelligent people using there intelligence to scam others. ciao, Sylvie
Hi Folks,
This obvious scam is easily punished. Simply press the report spam button and leave Google and their lawyers sort out thes idiots.
Whatever about not even changing the winning numbers, the scammers didn't even get a native english speaker to proof read their email. Anybody who has English as their first language or even a fluent foreign speaker would have noted the clanging grammar
Report the spam and they will be hunted down by Google who understandably resent their corporate identity being used in this fashion. I'm just surprised that google allow somebody to use their name in the email address.
HIT THAT REPORT SPAM BUTTON..
Guess what? I just recieved the same e-mail. Although it doesn't seem like the one above, the adresses provided are same
Here it is
Dear Valued Customer,Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr. Francis Henson for more details through the contact below:Mr. Francis Henson,Email: giveaways.promoonline08@googlemail.comSincerely,Mrs Sarah Johnson.
Like I have such luck ^_^
its funny that they use gmail and the logo of google, yet google doesnt stop them , trace them , and handle them to the authorities.
GOOGLE GIVE-AWAY WINNING NOTIFICATION!!! This E-mail is to inform you that your e-mail emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our online Give-away draws. GoogleUK has successfully organized for the second time a Cash Give-Away in the UK. Over £20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million British pounds) is to be given out for this Draws. No purchases of tickets were required. Participants for the draws were randomly selected from a world wide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine (Googler) and other Google ancillary services. Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, Google is running an e-mail beta test. Your email address was linked with our Computer Generated Profile Numbers(CGPN) and attached to the following details: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12), was picked among our lucky winners to receive £500, 000.00 British pounds. Winners were selected randomly through a computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google search engine. YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12 Ticket number: 00869575733664 Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06 Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12) To claim your give-away prize, send the following. Your full names................. , sex...........................
....,Location............................Alternate e-mail address..................Your winning details................. To your processing agent (Mr. Francis Henson) who have been assigned to handle your winning file and payment processing. Your Processing Agent contact: Mr. Francis Henson, Email: giveaways.promoonline003@gmail.com Sincerely, Mrs Konrad M. Johnson.
I got a mail from "Google 10th Anniversary Awards Centre" stating that you have won an award of one million Five HundredThousand Great British Pounds (£ 1.500, 000.00) and asked me to send my address etc. I responded to that query just to check whether it is a valid address. Today I got the response as shown below.
fromganicersary lotto <glotto.pdc05671@gmail.com>toRevikumar Vasudevan <revikumarv@gmail.com>
dateFri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:43 AMsubjectPRIZE PAYMENT OPTION .......................mailed-bygmail.com
hide details 6:43 AM (2 hours ago) Reply
Google 10th Anniversary Awards Centre,94 Marylebone High Street, London W1U 4RY, United Kingdom.
Dear Award winner
Attention : Revikumar N Vasudevan.
This is to acknowledge the receipt of the requested data and theconfirmation of your reliability in our 10th Anniversary Awardspromotion.
The original copy of your award certificate and two other documents(Money Laundering Certification & an affidavit of claim as an Awardwinner) from the British Government stating that the money was legallyobtained through the Google 10th Anniversary Awards promotionprogramme will be sent to you via FedEx courier as soon as you meetwith any of the optional requirements listed below. Meanwhile, yourwinning certificate will be sent to you first via email attachment soas to enable you acknowledge the correct spelling & arrangement ofyour names.
We wish to inform you that all authorities involved have certifiedpayment of your Award all amounting to one million Five HundredThousand Great British Pounds (£ 1.500, 000.00) which is your prizemoney from Google Anniversary awards, a for-profit philanthropic wingof Google UK which was organised & drawn through a computer ballotsystem from a combination of different email directories around theglobe. Be informed that instruments for payment for the sum of onemillion Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds (£ 1.500,000.00) toyou is already in our possession and would be processed upon meetingthe requirements of your selected payment Option. You can now beginthe final step of the claims process, which is the transferring ofyour cash prize into your Bank account or dispatching of a CertifiedBank Cheque through FedEx Courier to your nominated address.
The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:
Option 1: Your Awards Legal Documents & a Certified Bank Cheque forone million Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds (£1.500,000.00) will be sent to you via FedEx Courier service, which isour assigned courier company. FedEx Courier service would bring yourawards documents & Certified Bank Cheque to the address you providedus with as written below (You are allowed to correct or amend yourcontact information in your next mail):
Name: Revikumar N Vasudevan.Address: Ravi Nivas(H),SMP Colony Road, EroorSouth(PO),Tripunithura-682306,Kochi,Kerala INDIA.
You will be required to send your international passport, driver’slicense or ID card to us via email attachment as it will be used for aproper identification of you during delivery of your Award documentsand Certified Bank Cheque by the FedEx Courier Service.
Option 2: Your prize money will be wired to your bank account via anautomated direct wire transfer system operated by nominated payingBank. Hence you would be required to send in your complete Bankinginformation, i.e.
Account Name:Account No.:Bank NameBank Address:Swift code:IBan (If Applicable):MIR (If Applicable):IFS Code (If Applicable):
I expect an email from you immediately making a selection from the twooptions above. Also call me and inform me so as to hasten up yourclaim process. Call within 7:00 hrs GMT- 22:00 hrs GMT.
Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being partof our Promotional programme.
Sincerely Yours,
Dr. Charles AnoguaDirector of OperationsPaying center Accra Ghana.Tele/Fax 233 241 879 108------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------After 10 years of establishment, Google Inc is worth over 23 BillionUS Dollars with over 20,000 workers worldwide making it the best andmost successful online search engine around the globe. Keep your Awardinformation confidentail.
I got one too:
This E-mail is to inform you that your e-mail emerged as a winner of
£1,000,000.00 GBP (One million British Pounds) in our onlineGive-away draws.
YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW:Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12Ticket number: 00869575733664Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)
To claim your give-away prize, contact
Your Processing Agent contact:
Mr. Francis Henson,Email: giveaways.promonline003@gmail.com
Sincerely,Mrs Konrad M. Johnson.
man, I honestly very nearly fell for that, I was just like, "wow, here I am wondering how to find the money to buy luch and now I can get 500 grand?" man, cheers for putting this up man,its good that I can search online and have it debunked. I wonder why they didn't ask for my account details?
Just received one as well. Notice the lame name and the email address where it came from..
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Email: mrg.benfield02@gmail.com Sincerely, Mr Peter Janot.
dateSat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:48 AMsubjectGoogle Online Promo © 2009mailed-byuniv.trieste.ithide details 7:48 AM (1 hour ago) Reply
Dear Valued Customer, Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr Grahams Benfield, for more details through the contact below: Mr Grahams Benfield,, Email: mrg.benfield02@gmail.com Sincerely, Mr Peter Janot.
I have received two emails of such kind of scam. One about 1 year ago, and other today. When I got the first one scam email, I honestly responded and exchanged many messages with them until they asked me to pay 1,000 USD first for the wiring cost. I realized it is a scam. After this experience, I can easily recognize whether it is a scam or not. Here are some guidelines.
1. What kinds of email hosting they are using? Can you imagine that a google winning promotion plan would use a hotmail email account?
2. Google the subject they are sending and you will find out the truth, just like this nice bug.
I also got this kind of email. I thought I would never got this kinda email since I'm in Jakarta, Indonesia. But when I tried to find out about this promotion and ended up in this hub. Gosh.....I finally know that they do this all around the world!
However, below is the email that I received a couple days ago:
fromGoogle Promotions <winners@google.co.uk>reply-tomrg.benfield02@msn.comtodate1 July 2009 00:37subjectGOOGLE GIVE-AWAY WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!hide details 1 Jul (2 days ago) Reply
Dear e-mail user, Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £850,000.00 GBP (Eight Hundred And Fifty Thousand British Pounds) in our on-going promotion.Your Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr Grahams Benfield, for more details through the contact below: Mr Grahams Benfield,, Email: mrg.benfield04@gmail.com Sincerely, Mrs Anna Janot.
What? I didn't really win? I just bought a boat and a house...boy, this sux
I guess the scammer had become a little... slightly smarter.. I got the same e-mail and the content is exactly the same (apart from the different numbers). Just that for now, they create a different e-mail account.. it's no longer using hotmail, but gmail account! (which makes this scam even more plausible) but still, the huge amount is unbelievable.. it's too good to be true.. Don't fall to prey to this scam =)
Just got this email -
Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five hundred thousandBritish Pounds) in our on-going Google Promotion. Your Winning details are asfollows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticketnumber: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr Grahams Benfield, for more details throughthe contact below:Mr Grahams Benfield,Email: grahamsbenfield002@gmail.comSincerely,Ms. Natalie Jones
What am I going to do with all the money?
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kamdatumsceturtdiena, 2009, 16 j?lijs 01:48tematsSuccess Alert...(Congratulations)
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Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five hundred thousandBritish Pounds) in our on-going Google Promotion. Your Winning details are asfollows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticketnumber: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers:12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr Grahams Benfield, for more details throughthe contact below:
Mr Grahams Benfield,Email: grahamsbenfield002@gmail.com
Sincerely,Ms. Natalie Jones
Thanks for posting this. The email has since changed (much shorter now and includes a name of a person to contact) but it is recognizable by numbers they generated to "identify" you- exactly the same as the ones in yours.
It amazes me that people are still falling for these scams. There are almost daily warnings about internet fraud. Greedy people are always getting scammed. Greed more than ignorance is the reason people lose money to these thugs.
I got the same mail today .. be careful ..
I just got the same email. How can people think that we can drop into this crap specially when it is send from another service supplier.
I received it too, and knew it was a scam when I saw the prize money was in British pounds. Google is an American company!
Hey i have also received this type of email,claiming that i have won 500,000 pound.I would like to thank all the user who posted and shared their words here.This is all "bull-shit".Hey Users THANKS.............
The interesting thing is that the google mail spam filter is really very good - but it did not pick this one up!
i got that email too.but mine had a diferent email attached to it i have pasted so u can all see .i told them in a reply i new it was a scam and i was ignoring their emails everyday 3 emails is sent to me saying i have won millions what sucks is one day i may actually win something for real and i will end up deleting it thinking it to be a scam .dont this idiots have anything else to do.i mean who is going to send money to them to relase money that dnt realy exist?
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Dear Googler,
Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five hundred thousand
British Pounds) in our on-going free Google Promotion. Your Winning details
are as follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN): 7-22-71-00-66-12,
Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers: BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky
numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12). Contact Mr Terry Miller, for more details
through the contact below:
Mr Terry Miller,
Email: terrymunit.2@msn.com
Sincerely,
Mrs. Becky Williams.
(Online Co-ordinator)
I got almost the same e-mail look!
Dear Googler, Your e-mail has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five hundred thousandBritish Pounds) in our on-going free Google Promotion. Your Winning details areas follows: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN): 11-04-56-05-33-78, Ticketnumber: 10567575888623, Serial numbers: BTD/4071447890/09, Lucky numbers:22-44-01-32-50-78(90). Contact Mr Terry Miller, for more details through thecontact below:Mr Terry Miller, Email: t.errymagt@24.tc Sincerely,Mrs. Becky Williams.(Online Coordinator)
It was send from this adress: Google Online Promotion 2009 (t.errymagt@24.tc)
People beware!!
jacobworld says:
17 months ago
come on u cant fall for this