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Monday, April 18, 2005

Google Spam Mail

The following spam email was forwarded to me by Iolaire. It abuses the Google brand to come off as authoritative:

“"From: johnson benard <...>
To: ...
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:08:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU WON A GOOGLE BALLOT LOTTERY

GOOGLE EMAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
FROM: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION / PRIZE AWARD .
PROMOTING INTERNET USAGE OVER THE GLOBE
(WE ENCOURAGE GLOBALIZATION)
FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
GOOGLE B.V. Boeing Avenue 44 9459 PE.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the First Category draws of GOOGLE LOTTERY INT. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held on 4th of April 2005 and results are being officially announced today 18th of April 2005. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program. Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 50941465206-529, with serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 500,000 euros(Five hundred thousand euros), which is the winning payout for Category A winners. This is from the total prize money from 1,000,000 euros shared among the 2 winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank. In your best interest to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants / non participants of this program. Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:

To file for your claim, please contact the fiduciary agent.

***********************************************
Mr.Matt Ford,
Olympics Trust Agency
0030-694-547-4079
Email:...
Vatis 27,
11435 Athens
GREECE.
***********************************************

You are advised to contact the agents by email.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,
MR. JOHNSON BENARD."”

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