Advance Fee Scams

This email, which purports to be from U.S. postmaster general Louis DeJoy, claims that the USPS has your promised ATM card and is ready to deliver it to you.

According to this email, you have been selected as a winner of the million-dollar Covid-19 relief lotto award.

Some scam attempts are just so silly and transparently fraudulent, that they are almost amusing. 

According to this email, lottery winner Mr Charles W Jackson Jr has selected you as the recipient of a portion of his prize money. 

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.