"Google Anniversary Promotion Award" Lottery Scam

The "Google Anniversary" email message below is a scam created by lottery scammers to trick the recipients into sending their personal information and money, by claiming that they are winners of the Google Anniversary Award promotion. There is no Google lottery, and Google will never ask you to send your personal information via email message. Remember, never send money in order to receive lottery prizes; and if you are asked to do so, it is the first red flag that someone is attempting to scam you.

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Google Anniversary Promotion Award Lottery Scam

This type of lottery scam will ask you to send your personal information and subsequently ask you to send money in order to receive your prize. But, please do not respond to the email message or follow the instructions in it.

Google is not taking part in or endorsing any lottery games, so if you receive an email claiming that you have won some lottery prize endorsed by Google, it is a scam.

The “Google Anniversary Promotional Award” Email

GOOGLE 2015 ANNIVERSARY

Google Promotion Award Department
Belgrave House,
76 Buckingham Palace Road,
London SW1W 9TQ,
United Kingdom.

GOOGLE 2015 ANNIVERSARY.

Dear Lucky Winner,

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.

The Google Promotion Award Team collects the E-mail addresses of all active users online, among the people that subscribed to GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE, GOOGLEMAIL, YAHOOMAIL, MSN, HOTMAIL, AOL, REDIFFMAIL, ALTAVISTA, BIGPOND and all the social networks online, among the billions users that subscribe to internet in which your email address did emerge as one of the lucky winners that won £500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the lucky people that won for this Month of January.

A winning cheque of £500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} will be issued in your name by our fiduciary agent, and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent alongside your winning cheque.

Note that all winners cheque are certified cashiers bank cheque and when delivered and received by you, you can deposit and cash it in your bank without any delay.

Kindly forward your verification details as stated below to your Fiduciary Agent;

1. FULL NAMES:
2. HOUSE ADDRESS:
3. OCCUPATION:
4. SEX:
5. AGE:
6. DIRECT PHONE NO:
7. COUNTRY:
8. TICKET NUMBER: 00869675733664
9. SERIAL NUMBER: BTD/8070447706/06
10.LUCKY NUMBER: 12-1223-35-40-41(12)

Contact Person: Mr Grahams Benfield

Contact Email: (gfiduciaryagent @gmail.com)

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 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.

Mrs.Charlene Richards.
Promotion Award Manager.
C2015 Google Corporation.

There is no prize, so please do not send your hard earned money to these cybercriminals. If you send your personal information, these cybercriminals will use it to further scam you.

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July 4, 2023 at 2:37 AM by
"Google Anniversary Promotion Award" Lottery Scam
an anonymous user from: Wereda 02, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

This is what I face!Thank you for sharing us!

YOUR EMAIL-ID HAS WON YOU (£500,000.00 GBP)

Spam

info.audt00@gmail.com

Jun 4, 2023, 7:16 PM

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Google Promotion Award Department®

44 Oakleigh Road

South London N11 INP

United Kingdom.

NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the restrictions implemented by your Internet Service Provider, we at (Google Promotion Award Department) urge you to treat it genuinely.

2023 GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION.

Dear E-mail Account User,

Your active e-mail address attached to the World Wide Web computer generated ticket number 00869575733664 with serial number BTD/8070447706/06 drew the lucky numbers 12-12-23-35-40-41(12) has emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 (Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds) in our on-going Google Promotion Award. 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, the Google ancillary services, support fraud victims, support widows, covid-19 pandemic support, uplift poverty alleviation, charity aid, community development, improve the level of education worldwide, encourage the use of Internet and computers worldwide for vast knowledge and also increase the standard of living of the less privileged. Hence, we do believe that 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.

The Google Promotion Award Team collects the E-mail ID of all active users online, among the people that subscribed to GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE, GOOGLEMAIL, YAHOO MAIL, MSN, HOTMAIL, AOL, REDIFFMAIL, ALTAVISTA, BIGPOND, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM and all the social networks online, among the billions users that subscribe to internet in which your email ID emerged as one of the lucky winners that won £500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterling} through electronic balloting system without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for being one of the lucky people that won for this month.

A winning cheque of £500,000.00 {Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} will be issued on your name by our fiduciary agent, and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent alongside your winning cheque. Note that all winners' cheques are certified international bank drafts, and when delivered and received by you, you can deposit and cash it in any bank of your choice without any delay.

To claim your won prize, please contact the Google Award claims Fiduciary Agent (Mr Grahams Benfield)

neatly filling the verification details below.

GOOGLE AWARD CLAIMS FIDUCIARY AGENT

Mr Grahams Benfield

Contact Email: (info.fpaycenter@gmail.com)

Kindly forward your verification details as stated below to the Fiduciary Agent;

1. Full Name:

2. House Address:

3. Occupation:

4. S*x:

5. Age:

6. Marital Status:

7. Direct Phone No:

8. Country:

9. Ticket Number: 00869575733664

10. Serial Number: BTD/8070447706/06

11.Lucky Number: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)

Mr Grahams Benfield

Contact Email: (info.fpaycenter@gmail.com)

Google values your right to privacy! Your information is 100% secured and will be used exclusively for the purpose of this award only.

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 that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result in the cancellation 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 Staff & Members of the Google interactive Lotteries Board Commission.

Note that this email can't receive replies, so kindly forward your verification details as requested via email to our Fiduciary Agent as stated above (info.fpaycenter@gmail.com)

Mrs. Charlene Richards.

Promotion Award Manager.

C2023 Google Corporation.

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January 13, 2022 at 5:09 PM by
"Google Anniversary Promotion Award" Lottery Scam
an anonymous user from: Malamig, Mandaluyong, National Capital Region, Philippines

Scams winner LOL I'm 1 of the winner of FAST-freelotto.com and I give all my details and bank accounts ID and now every time I sign up like online shopping and I put my name and bank account number and it's reported and after 2or3days everything need to change my password it's sounds like am spying or monitoring reports under by my name? Pls help me for clearing my personal records... And I hope that hacker's is so v

Brilliant all over the world

Hacker I ask 1 questions?

All the details you have do you think it's work it. We still found out because we need our confirmation to agree... Bank will call us for any transaction so take note HACKER

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August 7, 2020 at 1:12 PM by
"Google Anniversary Promotion Award" Lottery Scam
info

"From: Mr.Mark. Bill <markbill095@yahoo.com>

Sent: Friday, August 7, 2020, 05:09:20 AM EDT

Subject: Congratulations

CONGRATULATIONS! Congratulations

we proudly bring to your notice that your profile has win in the

www.google.com online draws of the FREE LOTTO PROMOTIONS. You have

been selected as the second

category winner in www.google.com draws done via computer ballot

system, there were no tickets purchased. Your email address was

selected from the World Wide Web and was attached to your winning

numbers FLC/7088. You have been awarded lump sum of money for 2nd

category winner in the online draws. The sum of (1,850,000.00 Euros)

Contact Person: Mr.Mark. Bill

Email ( mark.bill@planetmail.net

google.com Lotto claim agent

Thanks

Mr.Mark. Bill

Director"

Here is another scam.

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October 2, 2019 at 2:13 AM by
"Google Anniversary Promotion Award" Lottery Scam
an anonymous user from: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Thank you for the alert, these fraudulers wanted to con me when they sent me the mail below on 15th Sept. 2019, I thought it necessary to check with you to confirm the authenticity of the message.

"Google Promotion Award Department®

44 Oakleugh Road

South London N11 INP

United Kingdom.

2019 GOOGLE END OF YEAR ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION.

Dear E-mail Account User,

Your active e-mail address attached to the World Wide Web computer generated ticket number 00869575733664 with serial number BTD/8070447706/06 drew the lucky numbers 12-12-23-35-40-41(12) has emerged as a winner of GBP500,000.00 (Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds) in our on-going Google Promotion Award. 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, the Google ancillary services, support fraud victims, support widows, uplift poverty alleviation, charity aid, community development, improve the level of education worldwide, encourage the use of Internet and computers worldwide for vast knowledge and also increase the standard of living of the less privileged. Hence we do believe that 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.

The Google Promotion Award Team collects the E-mail ID of all active users online, among the people that subscribed to GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE, GOOGLEMAIL, YAHOOMAIL, MSN, HOTMAIL, AOL, REDIFFMAIL, ALTAVISTA, BIGPOND, FACEBOOK and all the social networks online, among the billions users that subscribe to...

GOOGLE AWARD CLAIMS FIDUCIARY AGENT

Mr Grahams Benfield

Contact Email: winersclaimsagente@googlemail.com

Kindly forward your verification details as stated below to the Fiduciary Agent;

1. Full Name:..

2. House

3. Occupation:..

4. S*x:...

5.

6. Marital Status:..

7. Direct Phone No:..

8. Country:..

9. Ticket Number: 00869575733664

10. Serial Number: BTD/8070447706/06

11.Lucky Number: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)

Google values your right to privacy! Your information is 100% secured and will be used exclusively for the purpose of this award only.

The Google Promotion Award Team has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners ... Email-ID. Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Board Commission.

Please kindly forward your verification details as requested via email to our Fiduciary Agent as stated above.

Mrs. Charlene Richards.

Promotion Award Manager.

C2019 Google Corporation"

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August 4, 2018 at 7:12 AM by
"Google Anniversary Promotion Award" Lottery Scam
info

Here is another scam:

-Original Message-

From: Google Inc [mailto:no-reply@google.co]

Sent: den 4 augusti 2018 13:39

To: Recipients <no-reply@google.co>

Subject: Official Letter 1111

Dear Google User,

You have been selected as a winner for using Google services.

Find attached email with more details.

Congratulations,

Matt Brittin

Vice-President for Northern and Central Europe, Google United Kingdom.

C2018 Google Inc.

-

This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.

david.drummond18@yandex.com

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March 13, 2018 at 7:25 AM by
"Google Anniversary Promotion Award" Lottery Scam
an anonymous user from: Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria

Here is another email scam from the scammers:

Дата: 23.01.2018 в 14:55

Подател: reply@googlemail.com (labld@pcivil.rj.gov.br)

Относно: OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION LETTER

Получател: Undisclosed (recipients:;)

Google Corporation®

123 Buckingham Palace Road

London SW1W 9SH

United Kingdom

Good day Sir/Madam.

You have successfully been picked as one of our 12 Lucky Winners in this months Lottery Draw, Please see attached file for more details.

Best regards

Matt John Brittin

Google president of EMEA business and operations.

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January 12, 2018 at 4:20 AM by
"Google Anniversary Promotion Award" Lottery Scam
info

Here is another scam:

"Notification@google.co.uk

<info@liberty-kit.com>

Google Enterprise Operation

Belgrave House,

76 Buckingham, Palace Road.

London SW1W 9TQ,

United Kingdom.

Congratulations on becoming a selected winner of the Google Reward Promotion.

Attached is for your perusal.

Yours faithfully,

Sundar Pichai,

C.E.O,

Google United Kingdom.

Quick Reply

To: representative@gp.officialreward.co.uk"

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January 6, 2018 at 6:16 PM by
"Google Anniversary Promotion Award" Lottery Scam
info

Here is another scam:

"From: "Google LLC"<lottery@online.com.kh>

Date: 6 January 2018 at 12:14:11 pm AEDT

Subject: Lottery award

Reply-To: <dr.williamsmatt@yandex.com>

You have selected among the lucky recipients in the on going GOOGLE AWARD PROMOTION to receive the sum of Ј2,000.000.00 Great British Pounds as yearly promotion to help, support individual, business and society growth as an active user of google search engine. For claims,Reply to Dr. Williams Matt, Email: dr.williamsmatt@gmail.com

1.Your Names, 2.Country,

3.Phone Number: 4.Age:

5.S*x:

Regards,

441904501125

Dr. (Mr). Williams Matt,

Head Foreign Award Payment Department."

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September 27, 2017 at 1:43 AM by
"Google Anniversary Promotion Award" Lottery Scam
info

Here is another scam:

"Google Mail

Powered by Google

GOOGLE AWARD PROMOTION

Ref Number: Google-Inc/910/16454

Batch Number: GL/32/ID1141

Dear Winner,

We are happy to announce to you that your email address have won £980,000 (Nine Hundred and Eighty Thousand Pounds). You were selected among the 10(Ten) lucky winners during the Internet ballot draw of the GOOGLE LOTTERY PROMO.

You are advised to contact the claim department immediately with the below information for the release of your prize money. :

Mr. James Morrison (Claim Agent)

Tel: 44-2033895921

Fax: 44-2033895921

Email: jm0396114@gmail. com

International prize Department

CONGRATULATIONS!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Janet Pools

Online Coordinator "

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September 26, 2017 at 7:47 AM by
"Google Anniversary Promotion Award" Lottery Scam
an anonymous user from: Lagos, Nigeria

Following my request.l want to ask if there is any authentic Google award organized in 2014/2015 by sky or by Google corporation.Because my account was selected.

Look forward to hearing from you.

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