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The "Google Reward End of Year" Lottery Scam Created by Scammers

There is no "Google Reward End Of Year" lottery. Therefore, recipients of fake email messages like the one below, which claim that the recipients are winners in the "Google New Year Reward," is a lottery scam. The lottery scam was created by scammers to trick the recipients into sending their personal information and money, by claiming that they are the winners of the same so-called lottery. But, there is no Google lottery, and Google will never ask online users to send their personal information via an email message.

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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 New Year Reward" Lottery Scam

Google New Year Reward

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Gelen Kutusu x privacy@avenue.co.jp

2 Ocak Çar 04:29 (2 gün önce) Alıcı:

Google Inc™ Belgrave House 76 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 9TQ, United Kingdom.

Winning No: GUK/877/798/2019 Ticket No: GUK/699/33/2019

"GOOGLE NEW YEAR REWARD" We wish to congratulate you on this note, for being part of our selected winners in our just concluded internal promotion draw this year, this promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary services.

Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be an active patronage to the Google search engine and services. Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, we ran an online e-mail beta draw which your email address won Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling (950,000.00). We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the requirements, statutory

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