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Scam E-mail sent by "Google" - Scam E-mail sent by "Google".
@gcorp09 (940)
Singapore
May 21, 2009 5:08am CST
I had just received an e-mail in my gmail inbox with the above title. The contents of the e-mail says that your email had emerged as a winner of 500,000.00 GBP.... Well, I do know that the above e-mail is a scam as I don't ever think that Google will be so good to give anyone that much prize money in the first place. Besides, there are some other hints that this is a scam (1 of them is the e-mail used to send out this e-mail). However, I was wondering how many of you had received this e-mail, and your response to this e-mail at the time of receipt. Do share...
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bjcyrix
@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
22 May 09
Another one of those scam emails huh? I dont notice those anymore. I mean whenever I get them on my spam folder, I just select all and delete them all without so much as a backward glance. I do however look at the senders of those emails in case there are those emails that Im expecting that unfortunately got its way into the spam folder. I think sending those emails are just a waste of time. Then again I guess there are still people who get sucked in with these kinds of scams that dont let those scammers be tired of sending one more.
bjcyrix
@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
25 May 09
Oh, hmm, I havent really thought of that. I just delete them even with the slightest suspicion. Thanks for the tip though.^_^
gcorp09
@gcorp09 (940)
• Singapore
26 May 09
Oh, I guess it's the default setting, as I didn't do anything to the settings... By the way, I'm not able to log in to Gmail. May I just check if you have the same problem?
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bjcyrix
@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
27 May 09
Oh, thats a different thing cause Im always logged in gmail. Its one of my tabs in firefox. Hmm, does this gmail of yours also the one you use for paypal or any other payment processor? Can you still log in to your payment processor account?
Bloggership
@Bloggership (1104)
• Indonesia
8 Jun 09
I never receive emails like that. But i'm very worried if the emails come to a person who still new on the internet and just about creating email account just a week ago maybe.
gcorp09
@gcorp09 (940)
• Singapore
8 Jun 09
It's good that you have yet to receive such e-mails. Yes, this is also what I'm worried about when I post this topic. The fraud e-mails are sometimes getting more and more "clever", and innocent people are being deceived into thinking that they are really lucky... It's really very sad to hear of such cases...