Advance Fee Scams

Scammers use many methods to reach potential victims including email, text messages, and social media posts.

According to this email, 79-year-old, “Abigail” wants to give you $5.7 million to distribute to charity.

This email claims to be a person who has a lucrative investment fund proposal to discuss with you.  

According to this email, which claims to be from the United Nations, you have been selected as the winner of a 1.5 million dollar prize draw.

Emails supposedly from the UK National Lottery claim that you have won a large sum of money and must supply personal information to the “agent” in charge of the prize.

According to this email, you have won £1,130,883 via the Big Lottery Fund and should contact the Foreign Exchange & Remittance Department manager to request payment. 

This email, which purports to be from a regional manager at a European bank, offers you a 40% share in a multi-million dollar fund.

According to this email, which is supposedly a Google Anniversary Winning Notification, you have won £950,000 in the Google Promotion for 2018.

This email claims that an entity named the European Debt Recovery Unit is “aware of your sad ordeal about your unpaid fund” and can help you receive the money previously promised to you.