Advance Fee Scams

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.

According to this email, an official with South Africa’s Department of Minerals and Natural Resources has a confidential business proposal for you.

According to this email, you have been randomly selected to win the seasonal “Like of the Year” Award for 2019.

Facebook users continue to fall for criminal ploys claiming that they have won a  large cash prize in a supposed Facebook lottery or grant.

According to this email, you have won $2,970,000 in the Millionaire-Raffle promotion conducted by an entity named “Royal Slots Online”. 

This email, which purports to be from Google CEO Sundar Pichai, claims that you have won £950,000, a laptop, and other prizes in a Google ‘Award Promotion’.