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Here`s a new one, and am I to assume Gmail is not giving out random cash prizes to it`s members? | Quote: | CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU WON $500! Gmail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. Please click the link below and follow instructions on our web site. Your money will be paid directly to your e-gold, PayPal, StormPay or MoneyBookers account. Click here to get your prize: |
Header info | Quote: | | From: Gmail.com <admin@gmail.com> | Mailed-By: server15.go-mama-hosting.com |
To: Gmail Winners <gmail-winners@gmail.com> Date: Jul 1, 2006 1:16 PM Subject: YOU WON $500! Gmail congratulates you! |
and there`s a gmail.com link that takes you to an area where you add your payment options. |
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andrew247
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I'm pretty sure Gmail doesn't use "go-mama-hosting.com". 
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darrenstraight
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Never seen this before but it's clearly fake, what was the link url anyway, don't post it here though, pm it to me, thanks.
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IamTheKing9
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I'm sure that if it was real, the From: field would have been something like gmail-noreply instead of admin. Plus, Google would write something like "reciepents undisclosed" in the To: field. And I don't suppose sending an e-mail to gmail-winners@gmail.com forwards the same message to twelve random Gmail accounts.
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maritimer
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Just for fun, I decided to click on the link which led me to a framed page pertaining to be gmail, but it was inside a member.tripod page. Anyways, after entering an old paypal address I don`t use. You then have to sign up for this, sign up for that bla bla. After outlaying close to 30 bucks, they then release your 500 dollars  I bet someone would be stupid enough!! |
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Manny08252000
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| Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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I got the same email. I click on it and it said you had to sign up for something called "Gmail Games" That was a total of $8.60 and it said when you sign up for it then you would recievce your payment. So hopefully it is real because I could use the money but I won't put my information on it just yet until gmail says that it is real. |
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syed1994
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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A fake. If GMail wanted to give free money, then why they just make a competition on Google AdSense or AdWords
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andrew247
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| Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | spam, using php mailer |
Why does it have to be PHP mailer?
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peterk
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:40 am Post subject: |
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I also got something like that a couple of weeeks ago!
Its obviously fake because if it was real google would have publicised it more.
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andrew247
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:56 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | if it was real google would have publicised it more. |
Not necessarily.
Google are infamous for keeping things secret.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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It's definitely scam. Look at that design, and compare it to google's usual designs. That disgusting red heading and everything. Google has other ways of telling that you won something.. but I don't think they're giving away randomly thousands of dollars for nothing.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | It's definitely scam. Look at that design, and compare it to google's usual designs. That disgusting red heading and everything. Google has other ways of telling that you won something.. but I don't think they're giving away randomly thousands of dollars for nothing. |
Yes, but I still think the biggest giveaway is the go-mama-hosting.com. 
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:40 pm Post subject: Re: Gmail cash prize |
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| maritimer wrote: | Here`s a new one, and am I to assume Gmail is not giving out random cash prizes to it`s members? | Quote: | CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU WON $500! Gmail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. Please click the link below and follow instructions on our web site. Your money will be paid directly to your e-gold, PayPal, StormPay or MoneyBookers account. Click here to get your prize: |
Header info | Quote: | | From: Gmail.com <admin@gmail.com> | Mailed-By: server15.go-mama-hosting.com |
To: Gmail Winners <gmail-winners@gmail.com> Date: Jul 1, 2006 1:16 PM Subject: YOU WON $500! Gmail congratulates you! |
and there`s a gmail.com link that takes you to an area where you add your payment options. |
Looks like a scam spam. 
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