CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Dear Googler,
Your email was received and duly acknowledged. I am Francis Henson the Give-Away Processing Agent assigned for the claim process of your funds. Your winning numbers have been checked and it falls among our winnings numbers for this year anniversary give-aways. Note, No purchase of ticket was require for this draw and all Participants(email address) for the draws were randomly selected from a worldwide range of web searchers who use the Google search engine(Googler) and other Google ancillary services and this is how your email was discovered and used among others for this year anniversary promotions. On Behalf of the Screening Committee, We hereby inform you that you are therefore cleared as approved Official beneficiary of £500, 000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) only. Your payment processing commenced immediately and your cash prize will be ready for disbursement as soon as the process is completed. In this regard you are you are required to go through the below Give-away payment options and let us know how you want your payment to be made to you.
Have you ever received an email like that? Chances are you thought maybe could it be? Did I really win 500,000 dollars? If you are like me, I was hesitate about it but it looks so real. Once I saw that they asked for personal information, I realized Google would never ask for personal information and I immediately googled searched this scam. I learned that this is a phishing email. It is completely fake but it looks real so that people will give personal information. With all good things come bad and phishing emails is one of the bad things about the Internet.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Congratulations, Jackie. You've just earned 5/5 additional points for overall blog quality. No this is not a phishing message, it's the real deal. You did a great job with your blog this semester.
Post a Comment