Online Threat Alerts (OTA)
An anti-cybercrime community alerting the public.

"Google End Of Year Reward" Lottery Scam

The email message below with the subject: "Google End Of Year Reward," is a lottery scam created by scammers to trick the recipients into sending their personal information and money, by claiming that they are the winners of the "Google End Of Year Reward" promotion or lottery. There is no such promotion, reward or Google lottery, and Google will never ask online users to send their personal information via email message.

Advertisements

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 End Of Year Reward” Lottery Scam Email

From: Google Promotion Award Team award_department@google.promo.com
Date: November 29, 2016 at 6:20:55 AM PST
Subject: Google End Of Year Reward!!!

Dear Google User,

We congratulate you for being selected as a winner on our ongoing promotion, you were selected due to your active use of our online services, find attached PDF file with more information.

Note: Contact the claims office via email: info@googleincpromo.com

Congratulations.
Page Larry,
CEO / CO-Founder

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.

This lottery scam is similar to the following:

Check the comment section for additional information, or share what you know or ask a question about this article, by clicking the 'View or Write Comment' button below.

Note: Some of the information in samples on this website may have been impersonated or spoofed.

Share this article with others.
Advertisements
Write / View Comments (2)
View on Online Threat Alerts (OTA)
Help Maintain Online Threat Alerts (OTA)