Advance Fee Scams

This email purports to be a final notice regarding a large sum of money that you have supposedly won in the “Exxon Mobil Grand Prize Sweepstakes”. 

According to this email, a wealthy widow diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour needs your help to distribute a multi-million dollar investment fund “for the mutual benefit of the orphans and the less privileged ones in your location”.

According to this email, “administrator and management” have decided to award all of their email users with a coronavirus compensation payment. Supposedly,…

According to this email, high-profile billionaire Warren Buffett is giving you three million dollars as part of a charity project.

According to this email, you have won 750,000 Rand via a lottery organized by the African Trading Reward Programme. 

This email claims that you have won 10 million dollars in the Microsoft Online Lottery Prize and should contact the paying bank for further details.

As advance fee scams go, this one is pretty sophisticated. It is professionally presented and, unusually for such scam emails,  it boasts excellent spelling and grammar. 

dvance fee scammers are currently sending out emails that falsely claim to be from recent EuroMillions lottery winners Steven and Lenka Thomson. 

According to this email, which purports to be from the World Bank, you are set to receive a $4.5 million payout via the United Nations Compensation Commission.