"Google Inc Official Notification" Lottery Scam
The email message below with the subject: "Google Inc Official Notification," 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 Anniversary promotion or lottery. But, there is no Google lottery, and Google will never ask online users to send their personal information via email message.
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 Anniversary Winner" Email
From: google.co.uk [mailto:sundarpichai.gceo@googlemail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2017 1:10 PM
Subject: Google Inc Official Notification
Google Corporation(r)
123 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 9SH
United Kingdom
Good day Sir/Madam.
You have successfully been picked as one of our 12 Lucky Winners in this months Lottery Draw, Please see attached file for more details.
Best regards
Matt Brittin
Chairman of Board and Managing Director
Google UK.
md.mattbrittin@gpromo-team.com
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:
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