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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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