Lottery Scam - "2015 NEW YEAR GOOGLE LOTTO"

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The email message below: "2015 NEW YEAR GOOGLE LOTTO," is a scam designed to trick recipients into sending their personal information and money, by claiming that they are the winner of the Google 2015 Lotto. But, the email message was not sent by Google and is a lottery scam. There is no Google lottery, and Google will never ask you to send your personal and financial information via email message.

The "2015 NEW YEAR GOOGLE LOTTO" Lottery Scam Email

GOOGLE Inc.in Affiliation with Asia Pacific Lottery Association.
Thru: Asia Pacific Lottery Association,
Wisma Magnum
111, Jalan Pudu
55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dear Esteemed User.
2015 NEW YEAR GOOGLE LOTTO
GOOGLE is pleased to notify you that our 2015 Lotto is on and this is first of its kind. As part of our Social Responsibility to our Customers and users of our ancillary services, we found it imperative to give back to our customers across the globe.
In view of this we decided to organize the GOOGLE 2015 Lotto, and the sole reason for this is to reward our numerous users/customers/clients who in one way or the other who have contributed to our great success and achievement and had dealings with GOOGLE Services, Search Engine, Gmail, YouTube, Translator, GOOGLE Map, GOOGLE Earth, Ad Sense and also to propagate the use of GOOGLE and the acceptance of the GOOGLE Android Applications and GOOGLE Play.
We decided to come up with this promotion to show our appreciation and also pray your continual usage of our services.in view of this 2015 NEW YEAR GOOGLE LOTTO was organized which is first of its kind to encourage our users and also introduce our latest GOOGLE Tablet (GOOGLE Nexus 10), we uphold the interest of our users and customers and are always committed to give them the best.
We are pleased to congratulate you for emerging as one of our lucky winners in the ongoing 2015 New Year GOOGLE LOTTO for your continual usage of our services, hence you are among one of the winners in the Batch A listing. As we believe that with your prize, you will continue to be active in your patronage and loyalty to GOOGLE as a total of 10 Winners emerged worldwide, drawn from different continents of the world. Your eligibility for this reward was due to the fact that you have used the GOOGLE services at one time or the other within the last 1 Year.
A Bank Cheque have been issued in your favor, hence you have won for yourself the sum of 2,500,000.00 MYR (Malaysian Ringgit) which is equivalent to $760,000.00 USD (Seven Hundred and sixty thousand US Dollar), One GOOGLE Nexus 10 Tablet and also you have been enlisted as One of the GOOGLE Ambassadors for 2015 in your Region.
We are aware of the continual rampant abuse of GOOGLE as a company and other multi-national companies and we are assuring all our users/clients and Winners that we are working on this, as GOOGLE does not run a lottery and that was the reason for the affiliation with the Asia Pacific Lottery Association (APLA)…..Hence all information with regards the Promotion will be treated with utmost confidentiality.
You will be requred to contact our Reward Co-Ordinator “Alfred Nashrin” by neatly filling the verification and funds release requirement below, as your payment will be released and arranged by our Asian Office;
CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM
First Name:
Last Name:
Residential Address:
Telephone/ Mobile:
Nationality/Country:
Date Of Birth (dd/mm/yy):
Sex:
Occupation:
Alternate Email(Optional):
To File For Your Claim, Please Contact Our,REWARD CO-ORDINATOR
Alfred Nashrin
E-mail: frednacordinator @googlemail.com
Note: You can either fill your claims verification form by printing and manually filling out the requested details or you can fill directly on e-mail, or provide the details on Microsoft Word.
Congratulations from the Staff & Members of Google Incorporated.
Regards,
Dr. Larry Page.
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer,
Google Inc.
Corporate Headquarters,
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View,
California, 94043, United States of America
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