Google Promotion Award Cash or Grant Donation Lottery Scam

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Dec 19, 2016 2016-12-19T22:58:10-05:00
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Google Promotion Award Cash or Grant Donation Lottery Scam

Online users, please be reminded there is no Google Promotion Award or lottery that is paying out or giving away thousands or millions of dollars in prize. Therefore, recipients of email messages claiming they have won or have been chosen for a cash grant or donation in a Google promotion, should delete them. Below is a sample of the fake or fraudulent Google Promotion or lottery email messages sent by lottery scammers, to trick their potential victims into sending them money for a promotion or lottery that doesn’t exist.

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A Sample of the Google Promotion or Lottery Scamming Email

From: Google Promotion Award [hnstwilliam@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 6:27 AM
Subject: 2016 Google Winner ★ Congratulations !!!

Dear sir/mam

Congratulations!!! We wish to notify you that you have been chosen by the board of trustees as one of the Google final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation of (USD$1.000, 000.00) generated for web users through Email approved prize in the online 2016 google promotion.

Kindly view attachment and for more details contact us via

E-mail: gpromotionaward01@ gmail.com

Regards

The Google Promotional Team

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Mar 1, 2017 at 7:58 AM by an anonymous user from: Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands

I received this lottery scamming email:
"Dear Google User,
Please kindly find your winning notification as attached.
NOTE! 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 about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. The Google Promotion Award Team has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the cancelling of that particular winning. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize."

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