advance fee fraud

According to this email, 79-year-old, “Abigail” wants to give you $5.7 million to distribute to charity.

This email claims to be a person who has a lucrative investment fund proposal to discuss with you.  

Emails supposedly from the UK National Lottery claim that you have won a large sum of money and must supply personal information to the “agent” in charge of the prize.

According to this email, you have won £1,130,883 via the Big Lottery Fund and should contact the Foreign Exchange & Remittance Department manager to request payment. 

This email, which purports to be from a regional manager at a European bank, offers you a 40% share in a multi-million dollar fund.

According to this email, which is supposedly a Google Anniversary Winning Notification, you have won £950,000 in the Google Promotion for 2018.

According to this email, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in conjunction with the Ministry Of Finance Of the Federal Republic of…

According to this email, you are eligible to receive a compensation payment because you were identified as a victim of a previous online scam attempt. 

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.