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Lottery Scam - "We Have Deposited the Check of Your Fund"
Lottery Scam - We Have Deposited the Check of Your Fund

The email message below with the subject: "We have deposited the check of your fund," is fraudulent and you should not respond to it with your personal information. The email message is a fake. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and money.

Remember, never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted you via an email message.

The Fraudulent Email Message

Attn: Our Esteem Customer,

We have deposited the check of your fund ($4.500`000`00USD) through Western Union department after our final meeting regarding your fund, All you will do is to contact Western Union director Dr. Gary Mark via E-mail(western.union188@outlook.com)He will give you direction on how you will be receiving the funds daily.Remember to send him your Full information to avoid wrong transfer such as,

Receiver's Name
Address:
Country:
Phone Number:

Though, Mrs.Anaet Mark has sent $6000 in your name today Senders so contact Dr.Gary Mark or you call him 229-68944226 as soon as you receive this email and tell him to give you the Mtcn, sender name and question/answer to pick the $6000 Please let us know as soon as you received all your fund,

Best Regards
Thanks,
Dr. Philip Ezeson

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