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Saturday, June 06, 2009 - (see all news for this day)
phishing for what? - 07:50 PM
(filed under 'general')
just got this email in my inbox. please tell me that no one would seriously be fooled by this:
GOOGLE GIVE-AWAY WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!
This E-mail is to inform you that your e-mail emerged as a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our online Give-away draws. GoogleUK has successfully organized for the second time a Cash Give-Away in the UK. Over £20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million British pounds) is to be given out for this Draws.
No purchases of tickets were required. Participants for the draws were randomly selected from a world wide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine (Googler) and other Google ancillary 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, Google is running an e-mail beta test.
Your email address was linked with our Computer Generated Profile Numbers(CGPN) and attached to the following details: Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number: 00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12), was picked among our lucky winners to receive £500, 000.00 British pounds.
Winners were selected randomly through a computer ballot system from worldwide users of the Google search engine.
YOUR WINNING DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOW:
Computer Generated Profile Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12
Ticket number: 00869575733664
Serial numbers: / BTD/8070447706/06
Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12)
To claim your give-away prize, send the following. Your full names.................
, sex...............................,Location............................Alternate
e-mail address..................Your winning details.................
To your processing agent (Mr. Francis Henson) who have been assigned to handle your winning file and payment processing.
Your Processing Agent contact:
Mr. Francis Henson,
Email: giveaways.promoonline004@gmail.com
Sincerely,
Mrs Ann M. Johnson.
*sigh* there must be some really stupid &/or gullible people out there to be tricked into giving their personal details in return for an email like that.
it's sad for real if the person who is fooled is someone elderly whose wits aren't about them anymore.
That comes next. After you contact them. Don't be fooled.they are getting smarter
you should respond with: sex......"yes"; location...."right here"; alternate email address....."none"; your winning details...."I WON!!!". then tell them you have no back account and can only except a paypal transfer and to use your winning email as the account. be sure to end with a gracious "thank you so very much".
i've got one thing to say about them: they are morons
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Odd, though, that no really critical information was requested in the email---no passwords, bank account numbers (that's a common one--"give us your bank account number so we can put the winnings directly in"), no crxdit card numbers, no "click here to log on"--not even a "what's your mother's maiden name".
Can it be that the scammer was so lame that they forgot to get any of that? That would be too funny, if they send out this massive effort, and in the end don't get anything they can use.