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Old 06-09-2008, 07:20 AM
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Default Google ows me £500, 000.00GBP

Lol am very happy today. Just booked my filght tickets to go and get my cash, afterall its google this time who wants to gift that

Check out the mail they sent me that too from their claims agent having an yahoo email address and that too .hk

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Attn: Googler,

This E-mail is to inform you that you have emerged a winner of
£500, 000.00GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in our
online Give-away 1Oth Anniversary draws. GoogleUK has
successfully organized for the second time a Cash Give-Away
marking 2008 10th Anniversary in the UK. Over £20,000,000.00
(Twenty Million British pounds) is to be given out for this
Anniversary 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: Ticket
number: 00869575733664 / Serial numbers: /BTD/8070447706/06 /
Lucky numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12) / (CGPN) 7-22-71-00-66-12
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. Newton Brown) who have been
assigned to handle your winning file and payment processing.

Your Processing Agent contact:
Mr. Newton Brown
Email: boardtrust_claimsagent3@yahoo.com.hk

We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.
Thank you
for using Google.
Sincerely,
Ms. Virginia Squier(promo. Director)

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Old 06-09-2008, 10:32 AM
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Wow... just....wow... you would think they would try harder then that
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Old 06-09-2008, 03:41 PM
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Geee...who would think of such a scam idea? I mean will anyone actually believe in any of these? It really sounds too obvious.
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Old 06-09-2008, 04:21 PM
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Ha ha ha! Yes!

Lol the funniest part of it was that a processor agent using a yahoo email id and that too .hk is will process your claim of winning a draw organised by Google UK

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Old 06-10-2008, 11:58 AM
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surely you would set up a googlemail account for these scams.....
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Old 06-10-2008, 12:57 PM
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Come on...I mean a noob wouldn't even get scammed in such a way. It's just far too obvious. Anybody would have seen that.
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Old 06-11-2008, 05:35 PM
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I am willing to bet good money that some people has fallen to such ludicrious scams. When greed consumes you, you can and will beliieve in anything.
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Old 06-15-2008, 12:12 AM
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LOL does anyone anywhere actually fall for these scams? They are so so basic and childish that only a complete idiot could possibly make the mistake of falling into the tap.
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Old 06-15-2008, 09:28 AM
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Raven, you are underestimating the naivity and greed of people to fall into such riduculous scams. When the Ponzi scheme by the evil genius Charles Ponzi was invented in your motherland long long time ago, the level of intelligence has not risen ever since
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Old 06-15-2008, 09:48 PM
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Oh i never under estimate an individuals desires. Everyone has a weakness that someone else can exploit. Its finding it thats the trick. Noteveryone is motivated by money. Unfortunately a lot of very uneducated people operate ont he internet and its easy for those of us with more intelligence to take advantage if we so desire
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Old 06-16-2008, 04:10 AM
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I don't think educational level has anything to do with it; a fool that goes to school is still a fool
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Old 06-16-2008, 11:03 AM
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Maybe your right but I would imagaine the ability to read and write to at least a basic level would be some form of help to anyone using the interent. we have to facebut to facts and the truth is education levels in the western World are terribly bad.
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Old 06-17-2008, 03:14 AM
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