Lottery Scam - "Google Plus 2015 Promotion"

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The email message below which claims the recipients are winners of the Google Plus 2015 Promotion, is a lottery scam. Please do not respond to the email message with your personal information because the email message was sent by scammers and not by Google. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and sending money.

The Fake Google Plus Email Message

From: Google Inc.
Corporate Headquarters,
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View,
California, 94043, United States of America
Thru: Google Inc,
Google UK Ltd
Belgrave House
76 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 9TQ
United Kingdom
Dear Esteemed User.
GOOGLE PLUS 2015 PROMOTION
On behalf of Google Inc. we are delighted to have you as one of our users up to this time, Google is delighted to put a smile on the faces of our numerous customers, hence the Google Plus 2015 Promotion was conducted and this is first of its kind and this is 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, and to plead for your continuous loyalty to the Google Brand.
In view of this we decided to organize the Google Plus 2015 Promotion 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 the GOOGLE PLUS 2015 PROMOTION 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 GOOGLE PLUS 2015 PROMOTION 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 10 Years.
A Bank Cheque have been issued in your favor, hence you have won for yourself the sum of £550.000.00 (Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling), One Google Nexus 10 Tablet and also you have been enlisted as One of the Google Ambassadors for 2015.
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.Hence all information with regards the Promotion will be treated with utmost confidentiality.
You will be requred to contact our Reward Co-Ordinator Dr. Michael Christopher by neatly filling the verification and funds release requirement below, as your payment will be released and arranged by our United Kingdom 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
Dr. Michael Christopher
E-mail: usersfunds@googlemail.com
Tel: +44 704 578 7364
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. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information’s confidential till your claims have been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
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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From: Google Inc
Sent: Tuesday, 5 May 2015 04:13
Dear Google User,
Congratulations, see attached document for details.
Regards,
Eric Schmidt

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