Advance Fee Scams
Links to reports about advance fee lottery and offer scams.
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Scammers Using Name of PowerBall Lottery Jackpot Winner to Lure Victims
by Brett M. Christensen October 11, 2020According to this email, lottery winner Mr Charles W Jackson Jr has selected you as the recipient of a portion of his prize money.
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‘$500 million Pandemic Giveaway’ Advance Fee Scam Email
by Brett M. Christensen June 17, 2020This 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”.
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‘For the Mutual Benefit of the Orphans’ Advance Fee Scam
by Brett M. Christensen June 12, 2020According 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”.
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‘Coronavirus Compensation’ Advance Fee Scam
by Brett M. Christensen June 2, 2020According to this email, “administrator and management” have decided to award all of their email users with a coronavirus compensation payment. Supposedly,…
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‘Donation from Warren Buffett’ Advance Fee Scam
by Brett M. Christensen April 8, 2020According to this email, high-profile billionaire Warren Buffett is giving you three million dollars as part of a charity project.
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‘African Trading Reward Programme’ Advance Fee Scam
by Brett M. Christensen February 18, 2020According to this email, you have won 750,000 Rand via a lottery organized by the African Trading Reward Programme.
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‘Microsoft Online Lottery Prize’ Advance Fee Scam
by Brett M. Christensen January 4, 2020This email claims that you have won 10 million dollars in the Microsoft Online Lottery Prize and should contact the paying bank for further details.
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Sophisticated ‘Identity Theft Settlement’ Advance Fee Scam Email Hitting Inboxes
by Brett M. Christensen December 19, 2019As 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.
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Online Scammers are Posing as Lottery Winners Steven and Lenka Thomson
by Brett M. Christensen December 18, 2019dvance fee scammers are currently sending out emails that falsely claim to be from recent EuroMillions lottery winners Steven and Lenka Thomson.