advance fee scam

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.   

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

According to this email, Mrs Betty Louise Kaechler from the USA is dying of cancer and wants to give you $7.5 million on the condition that you will give 50% of the funds to orphanages in your country. 

This poorly executed attempt at an advance fee scam purports to be from none other than Melania Trump, “First Lady of the United State”.

This email, which purports to be from the Foreign Operations Department at the Economic & Financial Crime Commission, claims that you have…

This email, which purports to be from the FBI, claims that you are eligible to receive a scammed victim compensation payment of $2,316,000.

Advance fee scammers are using cloned Facebook profiles to trick people into believing that they have won a Facebook lottery.

There is no such thing as a Facebook Lottery. Messages that claim that you have won a Facebook Lottery are advance fee scams designed to trick you into sending your money and personal information to Internet criminals.

Lucky me! Apparently, my email address has been randomly selected as the winner of the  Facebook Global Promotion for 2017.