GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION

(from the at least they’re not expecting us to believe AOL is major player on internet dept.)

From:”Google Inc.®” <ir@areeya.co.th>
Reply-To: <sirwilliama10@hotmail.co.uk>

An message claiming to be from Google with a Thai “From” email address and a hotmail “Reply-To” address…
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It must be legit…
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Date: Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Subject: Notification Date: 19/01/2012

Google Inc.
Stamford New Road,
Altrincham Cheshire,
London, WA14 1EP
United Kingdom

This scammer can’t even bother to come to come up with a plausible address for Google in the UK.

Winning No: GUK/9114/7955/2011
Ticket No: GUK/9130/7861/2011

One would expect Google could come up with unique “Winning” and “Ticket” numbers…

Notification Date: 19/01/2012

GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION
We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our winners selected 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 active and patronage to the Google search engine. 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 test which your email address won ?950,000.00 {Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling}

The scammer is apparently unable to correctly format the message to correctly display the “£” symbol

We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all online winners. A winning cheque will be issued in your name by Google Promotion Award Team, You have therefore won the entire sum of ?950,000.00 {Nine Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winning cheque.

Sir William Andrea

Sir? ‘Oh, I say, we are grand, aren’t we? Oh, oh, no more buttered scones for me, mater. I’m off to play the grand piano. Pardon me while I manage foreign transfers for Google.’

Foreign Transfer Manager
Google Promotion Award Team
Email: sirwilliama10@hotmail.co.uk
Cell Phone: +44-703-598-8651
You are advised to contact your Foreign Transfer Manager with the following details to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
(1) Your contact address:
(2) Your Mobile/Fax numbers:
(3) Your Nationality/Country:
(4) Your Full Name:
(5) Occupation/Company:
(6) Age/Gender:
(7) Ever won an online lottery?

Ever won an online lottery? I’ve “won” numerous online lotteries…

(8) Email:

The Google Promotion Award Team has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of this, these friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real winners. The Google Promotion Award Team has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the canceling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize.

Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of the Google interactive Lotteries Board Commission.
Sincerely,
Dr. Alexander Lloyd
Google Promotion Award Team