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The email message below: "This email is to inform you that your email address has just won you $500,000.00 and a Motorola Nexus 6 Android Smartphone," is fraudulent and you should not respond to it with your personal information. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and/or sending money.
Remember, never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted you via email message.
Also, there is no Gmail, Motorola, Google, Hotmail, Live.com, Windows Live, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft, Windows 8 or Android lottery.
Dear Email UserThis email is to inform you that your email address has just won you $500,000.00 and a Motorola Nexus 6 Android Smartphone for the month of March 2015 lottery promotion, which is organized by Google-Motorola Gmail Lottery.Google collects all the email addresses of the people who are active online; among the people who subscribed also to Hotmail and yahoo, we only select five people every month as our winners through an electronic balloting system without the winner applying. We congratulate you for being one of the selected winners.NOTE: CONTACT THE EMAIL BELOW WITH YOUR INFORMATION. Contact Email: GML11@qq.com1. FULL NAME:2. HOUSE ADDRESS:3. OCCUPATION:4. SEX:5. AGE:6. DIRECT PHONE NO:7. STATE:8. COUNTRY:Thank you and accept my hearty congratulation once again!Copy and Send Your Details to Contact Email Only FOR IMMEDIATE CLAIM RESPONSE: GML11@QQ.com
Dear Email User
This email is to inform you that your email address has just won you $500,000.00 and a Motorola Nexus 6 Android Smartphone for the month of March 2015 lottery promotion, which is organized by Google-Motorola Gmail Lottery.
Google collects all the email addresses of the people who are active online; among the people who subscribed also to Hotmail and yahoo, we only select five people every month as our winners through an electronic balloting system without the winner applying. We congratulate you for being one of the selected winners.
NOTE: CONTACT THE EMAIL BELOW WITH YOUR INFORMATION. Contact Email: GML11@qq.com
1. FULL NAME:
2. HOUSE ADDRESS:
3. OCCUPATION:
4. SEX:
5. AGE:
6. DIRECT PHONE NO:
7. STATE:
8. COUNTRY:
Thank you and accept my hearty congratulation once again!
Copy and Send Your Details to Contact Email Only FOR IMMEDIATE CLAIM RESPONSE: GML11@QQ.com
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Here is another scam:"Dear Email UserThis email is to inform you that your email address has just won you $500,000.00 and a Motorola Nexus 6 Android Smartphone for the month of March 2015 lottery promotion, which is organized by Google-Motorola Gmail Lottery. Google collects all the email addresses of the people who are active online; among the people who subscribed also to Hotmail, Aol and yahoo, we only select five people every month as our winners through an electronic balloting system without the winner applying.We congratulate you for being one of the selected winners.NOTE: CONTACT THE EMAIL BELOW WITH YOUR INFORMATION. Contact Email: GGML11-qq.com1. FULL NAME: 2. HOUSE ADDRESS:3. OCCUPATION: 4. S*X: 5. AGE:6. DIRECT PHONE NO: 7. STATE: 8. COUNTRY:Thank you and accept my hearty congratulation once again!"
Just received the exact same email except Microsoft is inserted in place of Motorola. Reply email address is GGML11-outlook.com.
Steve: Please tell me why you would think that anyone would believe that NEXUS or GOOGLE would need someone from WSU to notify anyone that they had won $500,000.00? The only thing you aren’t asking for is their SS and BANK ACCOUNT numbers. Why don't you spend your time studying at WSU get you education and go to work?Keep this up and I may be forced to support you in one of the countries fine penal systems.
I sent my info to this email and didn't know that it was scam.
Has anything happened to anyone that have sent information to them so far?
Some people have told us that they sent thousands of dollars and never received what they were promised. They said they were told to send money for taxes, to clear customs or for some other purposes, which the scammers use to trick them.Other persons said they told the scammers to deduct the money from their winnings, but the caller got angry and hang up.
