Google User Winner - nasty?

Just had an email from Google Inc email@hidden with a reply address of email@hidden and a Word.doc attachment.

Message says: "Dear Google User,
Congratulations for emerging as one of our winners, see attached document
for details.

Eric E. Schmidt,"

I’m assuming the Word.doc is something nasty, am I right?


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If it is it’s probably harmless to Macs but may just be a scam asking for bank details, etc.

Roger

---- On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 11:31:20 +0000 Kryten<email@hidden> wrote ----

Just had an email from Google Inc <email@hidden> with a reply address of email@hidden and a Word.doc attachment.

Message says: "Dear Google User,
Congratulations for emerging as one of our winners, see attached document
for details.

Eric E. Schmidt,"

I’m assuming the Word.doc is something nasty, am I right?


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Thanks Roger, don’t think I’ll be clicking on anything though…


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I guess it must be human nature to want to open something that tells you that you are a winner!

Did you enter something at Google where you gave your email address as a contact number? Didn’t think so! If you get an email with something attached and that is something you are not expecting, then… delete it.

HTH

On Dec 30, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Kryten wrote:

Just had an email from Google Inc email@hidden with a reply address of email@hidden and a Word.doc attachment.

Message says: "Dear Google User,
Congratulations for emerging as one of our winners, see attached document
for details.

Eric E. Schmidt,"

I’m assuming the Word.doc is something nasty, am I right?


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Good advice Mike, thank you.


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If you are a Gmail user (as am I) then you should report the mail to Google
by selecting the dropdown button on the right - when you are reading it -
and choose “report phishing”. I don’t know what Google actually does about
it, but I hope they forward it to ninja assassins.


Ernie Simpson

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Kryten email@hidden wrote:

Good advice Mike, thank you.


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