New Scam - for interest

kes

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This is the text from an e-mail received by me today - you may get one tomorrow - congratulations. The maths is a bit squeaky but its a lot.

Congratulations,You have been gifted $1.5 Million United State Dollars in 2020 Donation Funds,Contact us at this email for your claim: (XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)

Dear Lucky Winner with great hope this massage will reach you and your entire family in a very good health condition as I know you will be curious to know why you were selected to receive a cash sum of $1,500,000,00 USD.

I Mr.Bernard Jean ?tienne Arnault a French business magnate, An investor and art collector, I am the chairman and chief Executive officer of LVMH, The world's largest luxury-goods company, I am mapping out this donation funds every year to 20 countries all over the world where our company is been located in the world.

I decided to donate the sum of $1,500,000,00 USD to you as part of our charity project to improve the lot of 20 lucky individuals all over the world from our ($16.5 Billion) United State Dollars Mapped for the on going 2020 Donation.All lucky winners were random selected from Microsoft email owners list as to make sure this put on in the internet for the world to see, I have decided to do one thing I promised God forever as you could see from the web page above am not getting any younger and you can imagine i have no much time to live although am a Billionaire Investor and we have helped some charity organizations from our Fund for the past years.

Much of the money has been shared to our immediate family members before deciding to donate the remaining of the Billions to other individuals around the world, the local fire department, the red cross, Haiti, hospitals, and some other organizations in Asia and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with our payout bank of this charity donation.

I have kept just 40% of the entire sum for my self for the remaining days because I am old and very sick, To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($1,500,000.00 USD) which have been donated solely to you, you are to send us

Your Full Name:
Your Contact Address:
Name of City of Residence:
Country of Residence:
Direct Mobile Telephone Number:
Your Marital Status:
Your Age and Occupation:

So that I can forward your payment information to you immediately, I am hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your country, Please, you have to do your part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help as many you can help once you have this money in your personal account because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place, I like to re-assure you of the legitimacy of this services as we will not be involved in any fraudulent act and will never be.

Use the money wisely, we only want to feel good by helping people this time of the year, We have too much to give away as I only have a few months left on earth. I will advise you as the prospective lucky Person to be calm not to lose this great opportunity which millions of people are trying to entangle but the chances just couldn't come for them because a lot of people are out there to discourage them as they don't know how it works, and have never seen such before.

Thank you for accepting our offer,
 
Both myself and the better half have had a text from EE saying that the last payment had bounced and to click on the link to resolve the account lol

Also, the company I work for has had too many idiots click on spam emails and fill out the details recently. So the ran a mandatory IT security training, at the end, they said that there would be a test email sent out to everyone. Guess what, too many filled out the detailed again, I asked for a name and shame, bearing in mind we have almost 1000 employees. Declined
 
Tried the EE text with my wife but not with me both on the same account rang EE and after twenty minutes they answered had loads of these and said they were allover it :-|
 
I had one of DVLA Scam this am, stating latest transaction failed and debt being sold to debt collectors if licence fee not paid in 5 days,
 
The HMRC one is quite prevalent at the moment and a few have fallen foul of it, 2 different numbers have called me within 4 to 5 weeks.
 
I had one recently from the BBC telling me they could not take my standing order from my bank account for my TV licence renewal and could I renew my bank details to keep me up to date !!
I'm well over 75 so it might not be a scam but to make sure one way or the other I deleted it.
Then I had a follow up letter telling me to renew my TV licence again so it might be genuine.
Again I'm not taking any chances so binned that as well ;-)
 
There is another one going on as follows

Dear Xxxx

People are being very mean to me and saying that I tell lots of fibs and they won’t let me be President again but if you could please go to NASDAQ and put all of your savings into ticker number DJT you will be buying into a company that will be very successful (I promise) and will tell the Truth About Everything. I pinky promise that I will not ask the board - none of course are family, friends and employees, and none have pleaded guilty to fraud - to let me sell some of stock thus crashing my company to pay of some of my debts.

It will oneday be a very valuable company Honest.

Meanwhile off to save the world and sell some more Bibles.

Yours for ever
 
Amazingly these 419 are still doing the rounds… I had a message from the Istanbul branch of Santander telling me that one if there clients died in 2008 China earthquake and I’m his closest relative so they’ll be sending me his 8.5M gbp…

As someone who deals with scam victims as part of work, it’s fascinating how greed and ego combine to make some relatively intelligent people make some very very stupid decisions
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Your Full Name: Winston Turdpacker
Your Contact Address: Number 10 blah blah
Name of City of Residence: London
Country of Residence: England
Direct Mobile Telephone Number: 0411189765478652347 Ring me please.
Your Marital Status: Three wives and two 20 year old slutz (male)
Your Age and Occupation: 87 Homosexual Priest,lets meet up.
 
I used to have the accident injuries claim calls.

They'd start of with "We are calling about your recent accident..."

To which (and I pray not to tempt fate) I'd always reply "Yes I remember it well. I died."
 
Your Full Name: Winston Turdpacker
Your Contact Address: Number 10 blah blah
Name of City of Residence: London
Country of Residence: England
Direct Mobile Telephone Number: 0411189765478652347 Ring me please.
Your Marital Status: Three wives and two 20 year old slutz (male)
Your Age and Occupation: 87 Homosexual Priest,lets meet up.
Ermm? I am confused now JG.

I thought that was the recent unsolicited WhatsApp text message you got from "a close personal friend" of William Wragg MP?

For my one I received was very similar.
 
Our scammers have recently become much more sly using “authentic” looking scams. I haven’t seen a Nigerian millionaire in many years,

Just the other day received a text concerning an undelivered package with a partial address. Please click link to complete details

Page comes up and looks nearly identical to an official USPS web link, and has a note at the bottom, “you will be charged a small handling fee of $3.99”

I would bet they rake in millions, authentic looking and such a “reasonable” fee. After all, who would scam me out of less than $5.
 
I used to gets lots saying they were from my mobile supplies. I sound very contrite and say
Sorry this is my work phone, the only one I’ve got, they pay for the calls texts and data.

The phone goes quiet 🤐
 
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