You won $500! Gmail congratulates you!

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:

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Sincerely,
The Gmail.com staff
Gmail.com http://www.gmail.com



What is this email about? Why would gmail give away cash prices?

some sort of phishing email - ignore it, or report it

Since you edited out the link, we can't tell exactly what kind of scam it is, but it will either plant your PC with a virus, ask you to log into your ecurrency account through their site, etc.

I am not too sure about the link. Looks suspicious and therefore edited it just in case. It asked to log on ecurrency account indeed.

Thanks, I know what this is now.

Forget about this mail. The trash can is the best place for them.

Do you hear of many of these scams?
Being new to all of this it can seem scary!!!!

Urgh i hate scammers no such thing as free lunch

There's many scams out there, I get them at least once or twice every couple of weeks'

Have you got any basic rules that you follow to keep you out of trouble when it comes to these scams?

You seriously think Gmail would ever use a currency like Stormpay?

LOL

Well $500 can be pretty "persuasive" and blinding, I would say! Didn't even catch the stormpay and paypal thing...

Pretty catchy email title.
Remember not to click on any links that is so send from the so called "Paypal, google E-gold" etc etc

I got the same thing, I didn't click the link, sent it to Gmail Abuse.

Now they want me to fill in an abuse form and I can't be bothered (I'm a lazy cow), but I guess lots of people got the same, so they will get others who do fill in the form.

Amen on that! BTW I heared that Google already launched there payment processor, any news?

As far as I heard it is not exactly a payment processor like we all expected. I understood that it is not GBuy but something like GCommerce if I am not mistaken, which I might be. I think it has something to do with uploading funds or something. Anyway, if anyone has news he/she should let us know

I read about the launch in a newsletter but it didn't have a link and I checked google but found nothing!

i need gmail ,who can send me join the gmail.

how to send gmail invitation ?

Well first of all its not from Gmail/Google

It states Gmail.com Team..Common , it should Google or something like that. Its just a scam mail

No, I dont think so. Google doesnt need to give prizes to members, thjey already have a huge member list!

And a serious company would not do things like this!

Without say to members and announce to public.