Advance Fee Scams

According to this email,  “Brett and Robin McCoy” are giving away one million dollars to five randomly chosen individuals as part of a charity project.  

This email asks if you can handle a multi-million dollar financial transaction with one Mr George Lewis. Apparently, George is inviting you…

As I have often mentioned, advance fee scammers use a seemingly never-ending variety of back stories as vehicles for finding new victims. And they often tend to target people that have been previously caught out in such scams.

Supposedly, this email comes from the head office of an organization called the Compensation and Finance House. 

According to this email, Sgt. Richard Wood, a war veteran with the United Nations troop in Afghanistan, needs your help to process funds derived from a crude oil deal in Iraq.

According to this message, your email address has won £1 million courtesy of the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee and the Microsoft-Euro Online Lottery Award Team.   

According to this email, Mr Yang, a friend of  Mr Chen Shui-bian, the former President of Taiwan,  has a lucrative investment proposal for you.

Criminals are distributing a scam email claiming to be from American businessman and philanthropist Howard G. Buffett, son of famous billionaire investor Warren Buffett. 

Advance fee scammers regularly use Facebook as a vehicle for reaching new victims.  And, they use a variety of cover stories to try to convince potential victims that their claims are legitimate.