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Maureen and David Kaltschmidt Nickel 95 Trust USA Lottery Donation Scam
Maureen and David Kaltschmidt Nickel 95 Trust USA Lottery Donation Scam

Online users are asked to be aware of Maureen Smith and David Kaltschmidt Nickel 95 Trust USA lottery donation scams. The names of the Florida couple, who won $327 million in the Florida Powerball Jackpot, are being used by scammers in an attempt to trick potential victims into sending money and personal information. The scammers claim their potential victims were randomly selected to receive donations from the lottery winners as part of their charity project (Maureen Smith Foundation or David Kaltschmidt Foundation). But, David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith are not randomly donating money to people around the world.

A Sample of the Maureen and David Kaltschmidt Lottery Donation Scam

Maureen and David Kaltschmidt

Nickel 95 Trust Foundation
Melbourne, Florida, USA

Dear,

A touching email we read actually inspired us to do this. We decided with the support of our foundation team to voluntarily donate part of our won lottery funds to you and 4 others as a charitable project to improve the lives of five different individuals all over the world. I am most grateful for your email and I use this as a medium to say thank you for writing Back. This is a lifetime opportunity and 100% legitimate! This is a direct gift from God and my family and we would love you to share in our Joy.

We may not know you, I know it sound strange and weird, but since you were randomly chosen by God to receive this cash donation of $ 500,000.00 from our Foundation, You must be a God fearing individual. As christians we do believe that good things happen to those who wait upon the Lord, The main reason why we decided to share part of this lottery funds among other individuals who are in need is according to the God words that teaches about giving, Note also that we are not media fanatics and do not believe in publicizing our charity works to get worldly praises. We have taken care needs of my immediate family members & friends, and have donated anonymously to Hospitals & Charity Organizations in Africa, Asia and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes.

But haven't said that, You must note that we are not just ready to give up these funds just like that. My wife and I would love to know if you can handle these funds, Do you work? Do you have an idea what it takes to manage Half a Million Dollars? Could you please tell us about yourself and your present occupation?

Also kindly write to us about your view & plans on spending these fund that MAY BE entrusted to you! We need to be convinced that you are capable of managing such an amount and most importantly we shall also take time out to visit your country and do a follow up supervision on the projects you have listed.

Please provide the following details about yourself also so our legal team can reach you should need be:
*Your Names
*Address of Residence
*Mobile Numbers

May God bless your heart to be a blessing to your family & friends. Congratulations once again.

Remain Blessed,
Maureen & David Kaltschmidt
Nickel 95 Trust USA.

Remember, once they (scammers) have received their potential victims' personal information, they will use the information to trick the potential victims into sending money, which they will claim is for some advance fees, which will cover banking and transfer costs, insurance payments or tax that the potential victims need to pay before they can receive the donated money.

But, if the victims send their money, the scammers will steal it and may continue to trick the victims into sending more money, with the promise of receiving the donated money the scammers claim they would receive.

Recipients of the Maureen and David Kaltschmidt lottery scam emails are asked not to respond to or follow the instructions in them. They should just delete the email messages instead.

It is important to remember that when someone contacts you, claiming that you have won the lottery or you are the recipient of millions of dollars, and asks you to send money in order to receive your lottery winnings or prizes, it is a SCAM. Legitimate lottery companies will never ask their winners to send money in order to receive their prizes or winnings. And, why would lottery winners who are allegedly donating millions of dollars to you, want you to send a few hundred or thousand dollars for banking and transfer costs, insurance payments or tax? Well, the money that the scammers want the victims to send, which the scammers claim is for taxes, bank transfer cost, insurance or other expenses, is what the scammers will steal. And, the victims, on the other hand, will never receive the winnings, prizes or money that they were promised.

So, once you are asked to send money in order to receive money, it is a scam.

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by an anonymous user from: Windhoek, Khomas, Namibia

So scary for people they are in need

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"From: "MRS. MAUREEN SMITH"
Date: June 13, 2021 at 6:23:40 AM MST
Subject: HELLO DEAR, THE SUM OF $500,000.00USD HAS BEEN DONATED TO YOU BY MRS. MAUREEN SMITH
Reply-To: "MRS. MAUREEN SMITH"


Hi, I bring Good News to you and your household today, Thank you for helping me to benefit from this life changing story. Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00USD) has been donated to you by David Kaltschmidt, 55, and Maureen Smith, 70, from Melbourne Beach, Florida United States Of America, Who won the Power-ball Jackpot of $327million Powerball jackpot at 1:30 p.m.EDT. Contact her via Email for more details: maureensmithhelp2020-gmail.com

Thanks and I hope to hear from you as to enable me to send you more information about it, I am actually making this offer to 100 persons and 28 have received theirs. I hope you will have the same testimony.. CONTACT HER MANAGEMENT VIA EMAIL FOR MORE DETAILS:: maureensmithhelp2020-gmail.com"

Here is another scam.

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"You have chosen a private donation of EUR 500,000.00 from Maureen David Kaltschmid. She won a $ 327 million Powerball Jackpot. For more details, just contact her at this email kmaurendavid04-gmail.com"

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by an anonymous user from: Augusta, Maine, United States

"You've been picked for a private donation of 500,000.00 Euro it was donated to you by Maureen David Kaltschmid. She won the Powerball Jackpot of $327million Dollars. Contact her only on this email kmaureendavid-gmail.com for more details. thanks Mrs. Latha Hilbert."

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"From: Maureen David Kaltschmid
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2020 7:54:47 PM
Subject: AWAITING YOUR REPLY

You've been picked for a private donation of 500,000.00 Euro it was donated to you by Maureen David Kaltschmid. She won the Powerball Jackpot of
$327million Dollars. Reply to this email for more details"

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by an anonymous user from: Monroe, North Carolina, United States

"Best regards
Mr. Graham M. Farrell
Funds transfer manager.
Online internet banking
First Bank of Baldwin"

THIS IS THE SUPPOSED NAME OF THE MANAGER OF FUNDS TO BE DISTRIBUTED.
THE FIRST BANK OF BALDWIN.

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by an anonymous user from: Hampstead, North Carolina, United States

"You've been picked for a private donation of $500,000.00 dollars it was donated to you by Maureen David Kaltschmid. She won the Powerball Jackpot of $327million Dollars. Contact her only on this email kmaureendavid-gmail.com for more details: thanks Mrs. Latha Ray Brown."

This is the email I received today on this. Pretty short.
Return email address:

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"From: MAUREEN SMITH
Date: Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 1:52 AM
Subject: DONATIONS

Hi, I bring Good News to you and your household today, Thank you for helping me to benefit from this life changing story. Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00USD) has been donated to you by David Kaltschmidt, 55, and Maureen Smith, 70, from Melbourne Beach, Florida United States Of America, Who won the Power-ball Jackpot of $327million Powerball jackpot at 1:30 p.m.EDT. Contact her via Email for more details: mw539414-gmail.com

Thanks and I hope to hear from you as to enable me send you more information's about it, I am actually making this offer to 50 persons and 28 has received theirs hope you will have the same testimony.."

Here is another scam.

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by Queenie from: Cambridge, Minnesota, United States

"Dear Beloved Kimberly...,

We have received your information and this is a confirmation that you are capable of handling this transaction. A copy of this certificate and a legally processed indemnity bond agreement guaranty meant for official used only has been signed and its in the possession of the bank and make sure you also forward the certificate to the Bank for them to be able to verify your application and for immediate transfer of the funds to you.

The indemnity bond agreement, is a security agreement that clearly secures and protect us and our beneficiary against any loss or other financial burden. Also with a compensation if they perform below our expectation with full refunds of our principal deposit, after our beneficiary has successfully complied with very instruction from the bank at all point in time.

The payout firm for this transaction was selected and approved to us by UNICEF, board members of our Foundation "The Nickel 95 Trust" and The Powerball Florida Lottery and Gaming Board with strong financial reasons that guaranty a successful transaction amid the global economic and taxation crises presently ravaging most economies in the world leading to unemployment, hunger, poverty and lot of economic instability. This is also why we have decided to touch the lives of many.

Also the payout firm is centrally located , therefore no form of lapses or language barrier, you can communicate in is English despite the location of our foundation or our paying firm. You will need to contact the SOCIETE GENERALE BANK. We have made the deposit of $850,000.00 USD in your name. I would advise you send the bank an e-mail message now using the below information:

SOCIETE GENERALE BANK (Private Banking)
Telephone Number: 33 97 51 89 711

Financial Supervisor Superintendent: Mrs. Corinne CAZET
Private Email: cazet.corinne-sccomtgnonline.com

Email: info-sccomtgnonline.com

The above are the details to communicate with the bank, we demand that you kindly give the bank your maximum co-operation to effect a smooth transaction. If any requirement is needed the bank will inform you.

Please Note: After the bank has verified that you are the true beneficiary, a benefit release form that you are to complete and return will be issued to you, it will also serve the purpose of your account opening form. You will be asked to set up an account for the purpose of this transaction and the requirement will be made known to you by the bank.

Also this is so for security reasons, we do not want to request for any of your personal bank information, we have been advise by experts and the UNICEF that you open a new account in your name with the bank, so you can personally make a transfer yourself without releasing or issuing out your bank details which ought to be confidential information to you without the knowledge of a third party. As you know little or less about me and my wife now, We are very strict when it comes to sharing information about our lottery fund transactions as we never want to border or make anyone uncomfortable with our information and so on, In this respect we expect that you also keep your payment information confidential until you complete the requirement of the bank and then transfer the total money to your own account.

This message to you is to acknowledge the receipt of your last email and also to confirm the reliability/legality of this transaction/grant scheme, now having to know the nature/backgrounds of this transaction and the financial security required with this process for international beneficiaries like you, be granted that as you comply with every single instruction within 3 - 5 working days the funds will be successfully transferred.

Regards,
David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith.
The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation."

Received this scam.

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Here is another scam:
"From: Latha Moses
Date: October 11, 2019 at 8:53:41 AM PDT
Subject: Private Donation to You
Reply-To: maureenkaltscht-gmail.com

You've been picked for a private donation of $500,000.00 dollars it was donated to you by Maureen David Kaltschmid. She won the Powerball Jackpot of $327million Dollars. Contact her only on this email maureenkaltscht-gmail.com for more details. thanks Mrs. Latha Moses Hilbert"

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Here is another scam:
"From: David Kaltschmidt Maureen Smith
Sent: 03 October 2019 19:51
Subject: Re[2]: $850.000.00 Donation

Hello Friend,
Thanks for your response.
My entire family is pleased to read your reply to us. Our names are David Kaltschmidt & ​ Maureen Smith, ​ I and my partner both live Florida, We won the Florida Powerball Jackpot worth sum of $327 million and have decided to spread our wealth through charitable donation round the world; we want to use this medium to give out a donation of US$850,000.00 (Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) to you as charity funds and for your personal business development and enhancement of children educational plans.
I am very grateful to you for the interest shown in my plight and I want to assure you that you will be greatly rewarded for what you have chosen to do. Although we know each other for the first time but I believe our father in heaven has directed me to you as I prayed and searched over the internet for assistance because I saw your profile on a list a registered email addresses provided to me by Microsoft list/Google list from which I picked you. After winning my jackpot prize, I have departed my neighborhood for some months now where we have to relocate to Malaysia due to taxes and other purposes.
I have assisted the local fire department in California, the Red Cross, Haiti, some hospitals majorly involved in cancer treatment, and some other charity organizations in Africa, Asia and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes. We have also decided to donate to Individuals and I told some Ministers about this which they said was a welcome idea and promised they will get me a list of some people who can help others with my donation and put smile in the face of the needy, We decided to select our self by going to Microsoft and Google to make a research. I decided to elope to Malaysia with my family because of our poor health been a cancer patient and ever since I won this lottery different taxes have been fallen upon us, and much is coming, my Families and my able ministers of God advise me to move to any Asia Continent with my family rather than paying tax each week...
Full Name:

Contact Address:
Contact Phone No.:
Nationality:
Age:
S*x:
Marital Status:
Occupation:
...
Regards,
David Kaltschmidt Maureen Smith

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by an anonymous user from: Seattle, Washington, United States

They are still active!

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by an anonymous user from: Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States

I received the same email. I’m very skeptical when it comes to these kinds of emails. I mean, come on, there are billions of people on earth and you’re going to randomly find my
Email and give me almost 1 million USD? Yeah, okay!

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Received the following:

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Maureen David Kaltschmidt Foundation
Date: Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 2:58 PM
Subject: You have been given a lump sum from (OFID)

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by an anonymous user from: Oran, Algeria

I received the same message and I replied Then I received another letter asking me for some personal information.

I then received a letter informing me that a sum of $ 950000usd was placed in my name in a bank socite general.

This letter I was flattered by a certificate in my name Prove my ownership of the amount 950000usd Signed by Mr David Calchmid Maureen Smith With a red-colored seal And the sign of UNICEF.

They asked me to send it to the bank
I sent it by e-mail to the bank socite general.

Then I received a letter from the bank Attached with a certificate -gide loyrette nouel-

They asked me to choose the method of receipt

1- open an e-bank account
2-through my bank account

Of course I chose the second option
Now I wait for the reply
what do you think about this.

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by an anonymous user from: Anniston, Alabama, United States

I got the same letter today Oct.31, 2018, so what I am reading, this is a scam, Thank for posting this information!

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by an anonymous user from: Syracuse, New York, United States

So did I. One thing I cannot understand is if all of it is so obvious, why FBI doesn't interfere? It looks like an open case to get the 95 foundations off of the market.

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by an anonymous user from: San Jose, California, United States

My name is WAYNE. If I won $10,000,000 in a Lottery, and someone I don't know was using my name, and face to commit an Online Scam, and there are victims of this Scam, and the victims come after me because they think I'm part of the Scam. Don't you think I would hire a Privet Investigator to find, and arrest the person committing the Scam?

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by an anonymous user from: Pueblo Libre, Lima, Peru

Here is another scam:

"Our 2018 Fund Donation Support (Payment Information).
dkaltsmith-mediacombb.net
Hoy, 17:59Usted
Hello Friend,

We are happy to hear back from you and We hope this message brings happiness, peace and joy to you and your entire Family!

We started year 2018 organised through our charitable donation platform "The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation" in our geographical charity investment units covering Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America and the Rest of the World; My entire family is pleased to read your reply to us. My name is David Kaltschmidt and my wife Maureen Smith and we lived in Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA. We won the Powerball jackpot lottery of $529,784,000.00 but received the winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $327.8 million before taxes on the February 19th, 2016 through our foundation "The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation" and we have decided to also use this medium to spread our wealth through charitable donation round the world; we want to use this medium to give out a donation of $950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) each to Five (5) additional lucky individuals world wide as charity funds this October, 2018 and for their personal business development and enhancement of children educational plans. This arrangement will allow us to be more nimble and efficient in allocating our support back to our communities.

For almost a year now after my retirement, we have been busy with a lot of charitable and philanthropic activity through our Foundation "The Nickel 95 Trust" among other voluntary associations, individual, NGO's for community services and educational benefit within communities. Supporting philanthropic activities is part of our Foundation humanitarian mission to promote ethical social change and foster a universal sense of responsibility regardless of race, color, ethnicity as we are all humans. We have assisted the local fire department in California, the Red Cross, All Hands who currently handle the current Hurricane hit in our states like Florida, North Carolina, and Texas and currently countries like Puerto Rico, Haiti, some hospitals majorly involved in cancer treatment, and some other charity organizations in Africa, Asia and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, then this year we decided to donate more to Individuals and we told some ministers about our decision which they have also been of great support, prayers and advice. So if you are getting this letter from me this month it means you have been chosen by my family and I with the assistance from The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation, Powerball Florida Lottery and Gaming Board and Microsoft/Google Corporation to receive $950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) after taxes, We have paid all taxes!

We have departed our neighborhood for some months now where we have to relocate to France due to our illness and a lot of taxes adding to our poor health been a cancer patient, our Families and able minister's advice us to move to any European continent to help improve my foundation work internationally rather than paying tax weekly for nothing.

Be assured you stand no risk as this is our money, you can read more about us by viewing the below link:


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-winners-historic-1-58b-powerball-jackpot-revealed-n520226

Our donation of $950,000.00 USD to you may not be much compare to what we have received but we believe it will go a long way supporting and improving your standard of living and everyone around you like our Power ball jackpot did to us, we would like to know few information about our beneficiary and our entire household will be glad for you to visit us here in France after our donation gets to you, but firstly I would like to know the below information:

FULL NAMES :
ADDRESS:
AGE:
S*X:
PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY:

We will never ask for your banking details or your Identification as we do not want to leave an impression in your mind that we want to steal your identity, But we want to know more about you, your family, your kids their current situation/level of education and your support towards their education for the past years and also for me to immediately issue instructions on legal authorization and payment to our paying bank. I do hope that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your country. we will employ you to do what you can to alleviate the level of poverty in your region and also try to enhance the standard of living of as many people as you can because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

We expect to read from you as soon as possible, We hope our decision to make this donation to you also touch your heart to be a blessing to your family and your community as soon as our donation is gets to you.

Wishing you the very best and a great 2018 ahead, Stay blessed!

Regards,
David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith.
The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation."

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Here is another scam:

"From: Helen Swanson
Date: September 10, 2018 at 5:07:04 PM EDT
To: "green-nickle95.com"
Subject: SV: Tr: Fund / 2018.
Reply-To: "David & Maureen Smith (dkatsmith-mediacombb.net)"

David and Maureen picked you for $950000 USD Donation Sept. 2018.

Kindly reply back for your claim details."

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Here is another scam:
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From: Maureen David
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 2:18 PM
Subject: Donation!!

$500,000.00 dollars has been donated to you by Mrs Maureen David Kaltschmidt, they won the Power-ball Jackpot of $327 Million Dollars in 17 February 2016. Contact her today at maureen.davidkaltsch-gmail.com for more details.

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Here is another scam:

"Da: "Maureen David"
Data: 27 luglio 2018 10:42:35 CEST
Oggetto: Donation.

May the peace of the Lord be with you and your family. Two Million Dollars ($500,000.00 dollars) has been donated to you by Maureen Smith, 70, and $500,000.00 dollars has been donated to you by Mrs Maureen David Kaltschmidt, they won the Power-ball Jackpot of $327 Million Dollars in 17 February 2016. Contact her today at tiimlee74-gmail.com for more details.

Regards."

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by an anonymous user from: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

This is their letter I received from them:

"Hello Friend,

Thanks for your res­­­­­­­­ponse.

My entire family is pleased to read your reply to us. Our names are David Kalts­­­­­­­­chmidt & Mau­r­e­en Smith, I and my pa­r­tn­er both live Fl­or­ida, We won the Florida Pow­er­ba­ll Jackpot worth sum of $327 mil­­lion and have de­cid­ed to sp­read our we­al­­th thr­ough char­­ita­ble don­ation round the worl­d; we want to use th­is me­dium to gi­ve out a donat­­ion of US­$85­0­,000­.00 (Eight Hu­ndr­ed and Fifty Tho­usand United Stat­­­es Dol­­lars) to you as char­­ity fun­ds and for your personal bu­si­n­ess deve­l­o­pment and enhanc­eme­­nt of ch­­­­ild­ren edu­c­­ation­al plans.

I am very grateful to you for the inter­­­­­­­­est shown in my pl­i­g­ht and I wa­nt to a*s­ure you th­at you will be gr­eat­ly re­wa­rded for wh­at you ha­ve ch­osen to do. Alt­hou­­gh we kn­ow each oth­er for the first time but I beli­eve our fath­er in he­aven has di­r­e­ct­ed me to you as I pr­ayed and sea­rc­­h­ed over the in­­te­rnet for a*s­ist­ance be­c­­au­se I saw yo­ur pr­of­i­le on a li­st of reg­­ist­ered email addres­­s­es pro­v­ided to me by Microsoft list/G­­oo­gle list from wh­i­ch I pi­ck­ed you. Af­ter winn­­ing my jack­­pot priz­e, I ha­ve de­parted my neigh­b­or­­hood for some mo­n­ths now wh­­­ere we ha­­­ve to re­lo­c­­ate to Malays­ia due to ta­xes and other purpos­es.

I have assisted the local fire department in California, the Red Cross, Haiti, some hospitals majorly involved in cancer treatment, and some other charity organ­­­­­­­­izations in Af­r­i­c­a, Asia and Eu­ro­pe th­at fight ca­nce­r, Alz­h­e­i­mer's and di­abe­te­­s. We ha­ve al­so de­ci­d­ed to donate to Ind­­iv­id­ua­ls and I to­ld so­­me Min­i­sters abo­ut th­is wh­ich they said was a wel­c­ome id­ea and prom­is­ed they will get me a li­st of some people who can help others wi­th my dona­­tion and put smile in the face of the ne­­edy, We deci­d­ed to select our self by going to Micr­os­oft and Goo­­­gle to ma­­ke a re­se­a­rch. I dec­i­ded to elope to Mal­­a­ysia with my family be­c­ause of our po­­or hea­lth been a ca­n­­cer pa­­­­tient and ever sin­­ce I won this lotte­ry different tax­es have been fal­­len upon us and much are co­mi­n­g,my Fam­ili­es and my able ministers of God advise me to move to any As­ia Cont­i­n­ent with my family rath­er than paying tax ea­ch we­ek.

My donation of US­$85­0­,000­.00 USD may not be much to you but I believe it wi­ll go a long way to improv­ing your sta­nd­ard of livi­ng like my Po­wer ba­ll Jac­kpot did to me, I wo­uld like you to fill the below and retu­rn ba­ck to me and my enti­re hou­­­sehold wi­ll be gl­­ad for you to visit us after my donation ge­ts to you. Do th­­is on time so you can co­­ntact the pay­out bank for fur­­ther direc­t­­iv­es to receive don­a­t­io­n, please do send me your comp­l­­ete de­­­tai­ls as I will be able to mail it to my pa­yo­ut bank for more details.

Full Name:
Contact Address:
Contact Phone No.:
Nationality:
Age:
S*x:
Marital Status:
Occupation:

...

May the Good lord bless your heart to be a blessing to your family and your soc­­­­­­­­iety as soon as my donation gets to yo­u.

Regards,

David Kaltschmidt & Maureen Smith."

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by an anonymous user from: Brant, Ontario, Canada

They are starting to send it again. or maybe they never stopped.

The is is their email: dakaltsmith-mediacombb.net

It first comes in from Anders Erixon: email is. Anders.Erixon-tyreso.se

This guy says. “David and Maureen picked you for $950000 USD Donation.
Kindly reply back for your claim details. Click email to reply dakaltsmith-mediacombb.net​​​”

That’s all he says.

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by an anonymous user from: Marietta, Georgia, United States

Received this today...July 19, 2018 from email:

nmazini-uns.edu.ar

"Five hundred thousand Dollars ( 500,000.00 dollars ) has been donated to you by Maureen David Kaltschmid. She won the Powerball Jackpot of $327million Dollars in 17 February 2016. Contact her only on this email for more details: maureen.kaltschmidt0124-gmail.com"

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by an anonymous user from: London, England, United Kingdom

I had an email from Maureen and David saying that they going to donate Half million pounds to myself, it looked Genuine and then I got emails from Gabriel Pancza saying that Maureen has paid so much and that I have to pay the outstanding amount, which I did.

This went on for several months and I got suspicious when I asked Gabriel Pancza for his “ID” so he sent me 3 photos, one of him a lady holding a baby and one of himself.

I asked for some “ID” again he sent me a photo of “ID card, so I thought it was Genuine Donation, so I kept paying what he asked for.

I got suspicious when all he kept saying that I was to get the money into my account by a certain time which never happened and kept coming up with different excuses all the time.

But when I asked him for a photo of his Passport and showing his face and the writing he never would send it to me then I got another email after sending me lots emails saying it would be in my account today and myself sending a lot of money to different people in Nigeria especially to EHIMEN Hope.

Then last email I got was to say the money had been deposited into my account but I need a “Pin Code” so I had to pay for this that’s when I knew this was a SCAM, as I knew I do not need one.

Every time he asked for money it was always between £150 - £200, they got a lot of money out of me so be warned this is a Genuine Scam.

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by an anonymous user from: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

I have been a dumb one when it comes to falling for scams. I have been paying money for various fees and certificates for a lottery winning from a group of unclaimed lottery winnings. It is over 5 yrs now and my question is there any way to sue this agency to recoup some or all of my money back?

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by an anonymous user from: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

I was contacted by email from David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith advising me they were donating me $950,000 from part of their lottery winnings. Half was for my own needs and the other half they said I should see that it was dispensed to worthy charities and places I could select to help out.

They sent me a certificate with all the numbers to claim the money they deposited in my name but I should go through a Mr. Jason Walters with BNP Paribus Bank and he would help me receive the donation and oversee that the charities were taken care of. They also stressed hey did not want to ask for any personal information.

But in hearing from Mr. Walters, he informs me I have 5 days to open an offshore account to transfer the money into an account of my own in the US. The first choice was personal savings account with a deposit of $400 which would allow the money to be transferred within 48 hrs. or the second choice was a premium Business account with a deposit of $750 for the same reason.

I was very skeptical to have someone I have never heard of before donating this kind of money to me, yet never say I had to open an offshore account knowing I had very little if any money. It would be wonderful if, in fact, this were a true donation by this couple.

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Here is another scam:

"De: Eva Andersson
Enviado: sábado, 9 de junho de 2018 03:22
Assunto: Funds Donation:: Forward Email to :: (dakaltsmith-mediacombb.net)

David and Maureen picked you for $950000 USD Donation.
Kindly reply back for your claim details.
Forward Email or click here ​ :: dakaltsmith-mediacombb.net"

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by an anonymous user from: Auckland, New Zealand

Here's another differently worded one...... notice the grammar? first sign in my experience that it is a scam

"Hello Friend,

We are happy to hear back from you and We hope this message brings happiness, peace and joy to you and your entire Family!

We started year 2018 organised through our charitable donation platform "The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation" in our geographical charity investment units covering Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America and the Rest of the World; My entire family is pleased to read your reply to us. My name is David Kaltschmidt and my wife Maureen Smith and we lived in Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA. We won the Powerball jackpot lottery of $529,784,000.00 but received the winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $327.8 million before taxes on the February 19th, 2016 through our foundation "The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation" and we have decided to also use this medium to spread our wealth through charitable donation round the world; we want to use this medium to give out a donation of $950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) each to Five (10) lucky individuals world wide as charity funds and for their personal business development and enhancement of children educational plans. This arrangement will allow us to be more nimble and efficient in allocating our support back to our communities.

...

Our donation of $950,000.00 USD to you may not be much compare to what we have received but we believe it will go a long way supporting and improving your standard of living and everyone around you like our Power ball jackpot did to us, we would like to know few information about our beneficiary and our entire household will be glad for you to visit us here in France after our donation gets to you, but firstly I would like to know the below information:

FULL NAMES :
ADDRESS:
AGE:
S*X:
PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY:

...

Wishing you the very best and a great 2018 ahead, Stay blessed!

Regards,
David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith.
The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation.

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by info

Here is another scam:

"From: Smith, David and Maureen
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 10:19:37 AM
Subject: Funds Release Procedures (The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation).

Dear Beloved Stephen Madrigal,

We have received your information and this is a confirmation that you are capable of handling this transaction. A copy of this certificate and a legally processed indemnity bond agreement guaranty meant for official used only has been signed and its in the possession of the bank and make sure you also forward the certificate to the Bank for them to be able to verify your application and for immediate transfer of the funds to you.

The indemnity bond agreement, is a security agreement that clearly secures and protect us and our beneficiary against any loss or other financial burden. Also with a compensation if they perform below our expectation with full refunds of our principal deposit, after our beneficiary has successfully complied with very instruction from the bank at all point in time.

The payout firm for this transaction was selected and approved to us by UNICEF, board members of our Foundation "The Nickel 95 Trust" and The Powerball Florida Lottery and Gaming Board with strong financial reasons that guaranty a successful transaction amid the global economic and taxation crises presently ravaging most economies in the world leading to unemployment, hunger, poverty and lot of economic instability. This is also why we have decided to touch the lives of many.

Also the payout firm is centrally located , therefore no form of lapses or language barrier, you can communicate in is English despite the location of our foundation or our paying firm. You will need to contact the SOCIETE GENERALE BANK. We have made the deposit of $950,000.00 USD in your name. I would advise you send the bank an e-mail message now using the below information:


SOCIETE GENERALE Private Banking (Banquier Privé)
Email: info-sicocpbmtgonline.com
Telephone Number: 33 805 081499.

Head of Operations, International Transfer Superintendent:
Madame Marie-Christine BODIN (SGPB)
Private Email: mariec.bodin-sicocpbmtgonline.com


The above are the details to communicate with the bank, we demand that you kindly give the bank (Madame Marie-Christine BODIN) your maximum co-operation to effect a smooth transaction. If any requirement is needed the bank will inform you.

Please Note: After the bank has verified that you are the true beneficiary, a benefit release form that you are to complete and return will be issued to you, it will also serve the purpose of your account opening form. You will be asked to set up an account for the purpose of this transaction and the requirement will be made known to you by the bank.

Also this is so for security reasons, we do not want to request for any of your personal bank information, we have been advise by experts and the UNICEF that you open a new account in your name with the bank, so you can personally make a transfer yourself without releasing or issuing out your bank details which ought to be confidential information to you without the knowledge of a third party. As you know little or less about me and my wife now, We are very strict when it comes to sharing information about our lottery fund transactions as we never want to border or make anyone uncomfortable with our information and so on, In this respect we expect that you also keep your payment information confidential until you complete the requirement of the bank and then transfer the total money to your own account.

This message to you is to acknowledge the receipt of your last email and also to confirm the reliability/legality of this transaction/grant scheme, now having to know the nature/backgrounds of this transaction and the financial security required with this process for international beneficiaries like you, be granted that as you comply with every single instruction within 3 - 5 working days the funds will be successfully transferred.

Regards,
David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith.
The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation."

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by an anonymous user from: Reno, Nevada, United States

I did receive one of these emails from "Maureen & David Kaltschmidt". But then I received a notice from a "Gabriel Pancza" that I had to pay "$260.00" to open an account with a Turkish.

(Turkish????) bank so that a "$250,000" cheque from Maureen would then be deposited in the bank. I suspected it was a scam since no one who is giving money away requires them to be charged to open an account. Ridiculous what is now going on with these terrible people who use others' names to scam people.

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by an anonymous user from: Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa

What about emails that come from 292 Family Partnership Foundation? The letters are written exactly as above examples.

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by info

Yes, it is the same scam.

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by an anonymous user from: Gwynn Oak, Maryland, United States

Here is another scam:

"From: David Kaltschmidt [rh.afranco-bluetree.com.br]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 5:37 PM
To: Recipients
Subject: HELLO

Hello,

My wife and I have honored you with a donation of $1.5 million Dollars from part of our Jackpot Lottery of $528,784,000 from the Florida Lottery. the selection was done randomly online through Linkedin because we contracted the services of Linkedin for the online selection from their data base and fortunately your LinkedIn profile was selected among 10 other selected profiles for the donation.

You might be a rich individual or probably a company CEO, but please be kind enough to invest the money and create more job opportunities for the unemployed people around your environment, and also extend the blessings to charity organization or humanitarian
organizations in your society the little way you because God knows why you were selected among millions of Linkedin profile. Please respond back to us with the below information to be forwarded to our bank for an easy wire transfer of the your donation to you.
We love you and accept our heart warm congratulations. God Bless you.
for more info please visit:..."

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by info

Here is another scam:

-----Original Message-----
From: Haeweng Jean-Elia
Sent: Thu, Feb 22, 2018 5:58 pm

May the peace of the Lord be with you and your family. Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($750,000 dollars) has been donated to you by MaureenSmith, 70, and David Kaltschmidt, 55. we won the Power-ball Jackpot of $327
million Dollars in 17 February 2016. Contact her via email: maureen.d.kaltschmidt1-hotmail.com

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by info

Here is another scam:

"De: David Maurent Smith
Enviado: quarta-feira, 14 de fevereiro de 2018 07:55
Para: virginia nicoleta
Assunto: RE: Our 2018 Fund Donation Support (Payment Information)

Hello Friend,

Happy New Year to you and your entire Family!

We hope 2018 brings you happiness and joy! We will be starting 2018 organised through our charitable donation platform "The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation" in our geographical charity investment units covering Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America and the Rest of the World; My entire family is pleased to read your reply to us. My name is David Kaltschmidt and my wife Maureen Smith and we lived in Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA. We won the Powerball jackpot lottery of $529,784,000.00 but received the winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $327.8 million before taxes on the February 19th, 2016 through our foundation "The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation" and we have decided to also use this medium to spread our wealth through charitable donation round the world; we want to use this medium to give out a donation of $950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) each to Five (10) lucky individuals world wide as charity funds and for their personal business development and enhancement of children educational plans. This arrangement will allow us to be more nimble and efficient in allocating our support back to our communities.

For almost a year now after my retirement, we have been busy with a lot of charitable and philanthropic activity through our Foundation "The Nickel 95 Trust" among other voluntary associations, individual, NGO's for community services and educational benefit within communities. Supporting philanthropic activities is part of our Foundation humanitarian mission to promote ethical social change and foster a universal sense of responsibility regardless of race, color, ethnicity as we are all humans. We have assisted the local fire department in California, the Red Cross, All Hands who currently handle the current Hurricane hit in our states like Florida, North Carolina, and Texas and currently countries like Puerto Rico, Haiti, some hospitals majorly involved in cancer treatment, and some other charity organizations in Africa, Asia and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, then this year we decided to donate more to Individuals and we told some ministers about our decision which they have also been of great support, prayers and advice. So if you are getting this letter from me this month it means you have been chosen by my family and I with the assistance from The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation, Powerball Florida Lottery and Gaming Board and Microsoft/Google Corporation to receive $950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) after taxes, We have paid all taxes!

We have departed our neighborhood for some months now where we have to relocate to France due to our illness and a lot of taxes adding to our poor health been a cancer patient, our Families and able minister's advice us to move to any European continent to help improve my foundation work internationally rather than paying tax weekly for nothing.

Be assured you stand no risk as this is our money, you can read more about us by viewing the below link:

Our donation of $950,000.00 USD to you may not be much compare to what we have received but we believe it will go a long way supporting and improving your standard of living and everyone around you like our Power ball jackpot did to us, we would like to know few information about our beneficiary and our entire household will be glad for you to visit us here in France after our donation gets to you, but firstly I would like to know the below information:

FULL NAMES :
ADDRESS:
AGE:
S*X:
PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY:

We will never ask for your banking details or your Identification as we do not want to leave an impression in your mind that we want to steal your identity, But we want to know more about you, your family, your kids their current situation/level of education and your support towards their education for the past years and also for me to immediately issue instructions on legal authorization and payment to our paying bank. I do hope that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your country. we will employ you to do what you can to alleviate the level of poverty in your region and also try to enhance the standard of living of as many people as you can because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

We expect to read from you as soon as possible, We hope our decision to make this donation to you also touch your heart to be a blessing to your family and your community as soon as our donation is gets to you.

Wishing you a Happy New Year and a great 2018 ahead! Stay blessed!

Regards,
David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith.
The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation."

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by an anonymous user from: Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Now this is what I just received in my email. I knew it was a scam. Sad people prey on less wealthy people, for a come up.

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by an anonymous user from: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Here is another scam:

"From: Freddy TschumI "
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2018 01:07 AM
Subject: Forward claims to via email :: (m.davidkalts-gmail.com)

Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00 dollars) has been donated to you by Maureen Smith, 70, and David Kaltschmidt, 55. we won the Power-ball Jackpot of $327 Million Dollars in 17 February 2016. Contact her today at m.davidkalts-gmail.com for more details.
Regards."

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by info

Here is another scam:

"From: Jenny Persson
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 11:10 AM
Subject: Forward claims to via email :: (david.maureen1232-hotmail.com)

David and Maureen picked you for $950,000 USD Donation 2018.
Kindly forward email to your claims agent via email
(david.maureen1232-hotmail.com)"

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by an anonymous user from: Phoenix, Arizona, United States

I sent them my information....What do I do?

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by an anonymous user from: Santiago, Region Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

I have received the notice of funds in my name with a certificate attached I know that I will catch the scammer when they will ask me to pay the payment release fees. Also, I located some of them with google map to find the origin of the scam.

Thank you truly for your good words.

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by an anonymous user from: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

January 29th 2018,
This just happened to me. I got am email from a Markus Meints, saying that I was just donated 250,000.00 dollars by Maureen Smith,70 and David Kaltschmidt,55 and gave me this email address : maureen.smith405-gmail.com .

He told me to click on that link email and go from there that Maureen and David was waiting to hear from me. Even though something inside me told me that this is too good to be true, like a stupid person I did. and I received a letter stating it was from them and so forth and all I had to do is to put my name and address down and give my phone number and age and next of kin and I would be hearing from this bank called : Kuveyt Turk Particpation Bank in Turkey.

they gave me a reference number to give to them for verification and after I do this they would give the ok to tell the bank to transfer the money to me without further delay.

Needless to say , I received another email from another person and it was from a Mr. Kevin Anthony phone number: 229 98589889 where ever that is and he would send 5000 dollar everyday to a Money gram store to me until 2.5 million dollars was fully paid.

I don't know where the amount came from 250,000.00 to 2.5 million??? I have save every email and printed them off. I told them that me and my husband both are disable and need money and it was a blessing from God, but I always knew something was wrong. So I went and investigated them on my own. I looked them up on the FBI website and so forth.

On every email that they sent to me I expressed to them that if anything is fraudulent that I would hunt them down and I will.

So Maureen and David if you had anything to do with this beware I am very sick with a heart condition and my husband had his feet crushed at work and is 70 years old and is disable too. This is not funny it is a bad and terrible thing to do to sick or any person or family in need.

As I said in all of my emails to you Maureen and David, you better not behind any of this?? My husband and I are good people with health problems and really needed that money and thought that the good lord above was behind this, but something told me to look you two guys up on the internet and I found his web page.

Sincerely, Lorena and Paul.

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by info

The people who have contacted you are scammers pretending to be Maureen and David, who are trying to trick you into sending them money.

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by an anonymous user from: Phoenix, Arizona, United States

I was stupid and desperate enough to give them my info and they even have my ID number. I have a young daughter in school and am afraid for her safety if they steal my identity. Do you know of someone I can contact to ensure that this does not happen?

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by info

Report it to the police.

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by info

Received via email:

"Dear Sir/Madam, I’ve been getting e.mails from Maureen

Kaltschmidt..maureenkaltschmid12-gmail.com, saying that she is donating to me $500,000.00 in uk pounds it is 373,189.02 pounds, also a Mr.Gabriel Pancza.. funds transfer manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank both been e.mailing me about this huge donation to me.so on my computer I logged onto Kuveyt Turk Online Banking Portal and it asks me for a Code so wen I e.mailed Mr.Pancza he says it costs well the latest one I got dated 27-01-2018 says that for the code will cost 41,680 pounds and that Maureen Kaltschmidt will pay 41,000 pounds and all I have to pay is 680 pounds."

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by an anonymous user from: Reno, Nevada, United States

I received an e-mail and when I responded "What is this I received this in return", I got this:

"Hello Friend,

Happy New Year to you and your entire Family!

We hope 2018 brings you happiness and joy! We will be starting 2018 organised through our charitable donation platform "The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation" in our geographical charity investment units covering Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America and the Rest of the World; My entire family is pleased to read your reply to us. My name is David Kaltschmidt and my wife Maureen Smith and we lived in Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA. We won the Powerball jackpot lottery of $529,784,000.00 but received the winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $327.8 million before taxes on the February 19th, 2016 through our foundation "The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation" and we have decided to also use this medium to spread our wealth through charitable donation round the world; we want to use this medium to give out a donation of $950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) each to Five (10) lucky individuals world wide as charity funds and for their personal business development and enhancement of children educational plans. This arrangement will allow us to be more nimble and efficient in allocating our support back to our communities.

For almost a year now after my retirement, we have been busy with a lot of charitable and philanthropic activity through our Foundation "The Nickel 95 Trust" among other voluntary associations, individual, NGO's for community services and educational benefit within communities....

We have departed our neighborhood for some months now where we have to relocate to France due to our illness and a lot of taxes adding to our poor health been a cancer patient, our Families and able minister's advice us to move to any European continent to help improve my foundation work internationally rather than paying tax weekly for nothing.

Be assured you stand no risk as this is our money, you can read more about us by viewing the below link:

Our donation of $950,000.00 USD to you may not be much compare to what we have received but we believe it will go a long way supporting and improving your standard of living and everyone around you like our Power ball jackpot did to us, we would like to know few information about our beneficiary and our entire household will be glad for you to visit us here in France after our donation gets to you, but firstly I would like to know the below information:

FULL NAMES :
ADDRESS:
AGE:
S*X:
PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY:

We will never ask for your banking details or your Identification as we do not want to leave an impression in your mind that we want to steal your identity, But we want to know more about you, your family, your kids their current situation/level of education and your support towards their education for the past years and also for me to immediately issue instructions on legal authorization and payment to our paying bank. I do hope that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your country. we will employ you to do what you can to alleviate the level of poverty in your region and also try to enhance the standard of living of as many people as you can because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

We expect to read from you as soon as possible, We hope our decision to make this donation to you also touch your heart to be a blessing to your family and your community as soon as our donation is gets to you.

Wishing you a Happy New Year and a great 2018 ahead! Stay blessed!

Regards,
David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith.
The Nickel 95 Trust Foundation."

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by an anonymous user from: New Iberia, Louisiana, United States

My message for David Kal foundation was received via text messages from Jessica Grimes 1 (410) 200-504. It was very suspicious so I looked up the David Kal foundation and found this article. So thank you!

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by an anonymous user from: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

oh my goodness,checking my e-mail via my cell phone & the ph clicked me over
to the Maureen Smith SCAM! Talk about message from God! Almost fell for it. I'm literally dying of kidney disease & CHF. Medical bills monies were to be GOD SENT.

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