{"id":67,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"\"Google-Anniversary-Winning-Notification\";-Advance-Fee-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Google Anniversary Winning Notification&#8221;; Advance Fee Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEmail purporting to be from Google co-founder Larry Page claims that you have \u00a0won  \u00a31,950,000 in the 2016 Google Anniversary promotion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Brief Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe email is not from Larry Page or anyone else at Google and you have \u00a0not won any money. It is a scam designed to trick you into sending your money and personal information to online criminals.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"example\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Example:<\/b><\/span><br \/>\nBelgrave House 76<br \/>\nBuckingham Palace Road<br \/>\nLondon SW1W 9TQ<br \/>\nUnited Kingdom.GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION.<\/p>\n<p>Ref NO: JB\/893-0821DQP\/D,<br \/>\nBatch: GH838QPV.<\/p>\n<p>We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our<br \/>\nwinners selected this year 2016.This promotion was set-up to encourage the<br \/>\nactive users of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary<br \/>\nservices.<\/p>\n<p>Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be<br \/>\nactive and patronage to the Google search engine. Google is now the<br \/>\nbiggest search engine Worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it<br \/>\nremains the most widely used search engine, we ran an online e-mail beta<br \/>\ntest which your email address won GBP 1,950,000.00 {One million Nine Hundred and Fifty<br \/>\nThousand Great British Pounds Sterling}.A winning cheque will be issued in<br \/>\nyour name by Google Promotion Award Team.<\/p>\n<p>Claims Administrator<br \/>\nMr.Mark Albert<br \/>\nEmail: &#108;&#x61;r&#x72;&#x79;&#46;&#x70;a&#103;&#x65;&#64;&#x63;o&#110;&#x73;u&#x6c;t&#97;&#x6e;t&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;&#x6d;<br \/>\nTel:0092348087967611<br \/>\nGoogle Promotion Award Team.<\/p>\n<p>You are advised to send your Claims Administrator email<\/p>\n<p>PAYMENT PROCESSING DETAILS\/FORM.<br \/>\n(1) Your complete contact address:<br \/>\n(2) Your Tel\/Mobile numbers:<br \/>\n(3) Your Nationality\/Country:<br \/>\n(4) Your Full Name:<br \/>\n(5) Occupation\/Company:<br \/>\n(6) Age\/Gender:<br \/>\n(7) Have you ever won an online lottery?<\/p>\n<p>So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings<br \/>\nstrictly confidential until you claim your prize.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations from the Staffs &amp; Members of the Google interactive<br \/>\nLotteries Board Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nLarry Page,<br \/>\nGoogle CEO\/Chairman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HSNet Article Center --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"5727909035\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Detailed Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAccording to this email, which claims to be direct from Google&#8217;s Larry Page, your email address has been selected as the winner of \u00a0 \u00a31,950,000 in the Google Anniversary promotion for 2016.  \u00a0Supposedly,  \u00a0the company runs the annual promotion to \u00a0&#8220;encourage the<br \/>\nactive users of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary \u00a0services&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To claim your unexpected windfall, you are instructed \u00a0to send some initial personal information \u00a0to the \u00a0Claims Administrator via email. The message notes that you are &#8220;hereby strongly advised&#8221; to keep the win strictly confidential until after you claim your prize.<\/p>\n<p>But, alas, the email is not from Larry Page or anybody else \u00a0at Google. And, you have not won even a penny, let alone \u00a0 \u00a31,950,000. In fact, the email is a typical advance fee scam designed to trick you into sending your money and your personal and financial information to cybercriminals.<\/p>\n<p>If you fall for the ruse and contact the &#8220;Claims Administrator&#8221;, you will soon be told that you must send money in advance to cover various &#8211; entirely imaginary  \u00a0&#8211; fees that supposedly must be paid before your prize claim can be processed. For example, the scammer may claim that there are legal and banking costs that must be paid up front. Or, he or she may claim that a tax obligation must be met before the prize money can be sent to you. And, the scammer will insist that, because of legal restrictions, the required fees cannot be taken out of the prize itself \u00a0and must be paid in advance. You will be told that, if you don&#8217;t send money to cover the fees, you will forfeit your claim to the prize and it will be given to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>If you do send money, the scammer will then ask you to send even more money to cover other &#8220;unexpected&#8221; costs supposedly incurred \u00a0during the claims process. Requests for more and more money will continue until you belatedly realise that you are being scammed or simply run out of money to send. At that point, the scammer will simply disappear with your money. And, of course, given that \u00a0the prize never existed to begin with,  \u00a0the promised &#8220;winning cheque&#8221; will never arrive.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters \u00a0worse, you may also become a victim of identity theft. During the course of the \u00a0scam, the criminal may have \u00a0been able to trick you into providing a large amount of your \u00a0personal and financial information, ostensibly to prove your identity and allow the allocation of \u00a0your prize money.  \u00a0The criminal can then either sell your information to other identity thieves or use it to steal your identity.<\/p>\n<p>By advising recipients not to tell others about their supposed win, the scammer lessens the likelihood that a more astute friend of the victims will warn them that a scam is afoot.<\/p>\n<p>Advance fee scams like this one are very common and very old. In fact, they predate the Internet by many years. Nevertheless, they still gain new victims every day.<\/p>\n<p>Be wary of any message in any format that claims that you have won a large sum of money in a lottery or promotion that you have \u00a0never even entered.<\/p>\n<p>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/googe-anniversary-advance-fee-scam-2016-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2224\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/google-anniversary-winning-notification-advance-fee-scam\/googe-anniversary-advance-fee-scam-2016-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/googe-anniversary-advance-fee-scam-2016-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,591\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"goog;e-anniversary-advance-fee-scam-2016-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/googe-anniversary-advance-fee-scam-2016-1-300x222.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/googe-anniversary-advance-fee-scam-2016-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2224\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/googe-anniversary-advance-fee-scam-2016-1.jpg\" alt=\"Google Anniversary Advance Fee Scam Email\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/googe-anniversary-advance-fee-scam-2016-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/googe-anniversary-advance-fee-scam-2016-1-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/googe-anniversary-advance-fee-scam-2016-1-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/googe-anniversary-advance-fee-scam-2016-1-271x200.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">Last updated: August 31, 2016<br \/>\nFirst published: August 31, 2016<br \/>\nBy Brett M. Christensen<br \/>\n<a class=\"foot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/about.shtml\">About Hoax-Slayer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ref\">References<br \/>\n<a title=\"Advance Fee Scam - Google 15th Anniversary Awards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/google-15-anniversary-scam.shtml\">Advance Fee Scam &#8211; Google 15th Anniversary Awards<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Google 10th Anniversary Awards Lottery Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/google-anniversary-lottery-scam.shtml\">Google 10th Anniversary Awards Lottery Scam<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Advance Fee Lottery Scams - International Lottery Scam Information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/email-lottery-scams.html\">Advance Fee Lottery Scams &#8211; International Lottery Scam Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/google-anniversary-winning-notification-advance-fee-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/google-anniversary-winning-notification-advance-fee-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline: Email purporting to be from Google co-founder Larry Page claims that you have \u00a0won \u00a31,950,000 in the 2016 Google Anniversary promotion. Brief Analysis: The email is not from Larry Page or anyone else at Google and you have \u00a0not won any money. It is a scam designed to trick you into sending your money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}