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The "Françoise Meyers" Donation Scams

If you have received email messages similar to the one below, which claim Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is donating millions of dollars to randomly selected individuals worldwide, please do not follow the instruction in it because it is an advance fee scam being sent by online scammers to potential victims. Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, a French billionaire heiress and author of Bible commentaries and works on Jewish-Christian relations, is not randomly giving away millions to selected individuals, therefore, recipients of email messages which claim otherwise are asked to delete them.

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The "Françoise Meyers" Donation Scam

From: Nancy McAllister - nmcallister1@bergen.edu

Sent: Friday, November 2, 2018 9:12 AM

Subject: RE: GoodNews

You are a recipient of our donation funds,for more details,send reply to : meyer.francoise12@outlook.com

Persons who were tricked by "Françoise Meyers" donation email scam are asked to report it to the police. And, those who were instructed by the cybercriminals to use their credit cards to make payments for their so-called donation are asked to contact their banks for help.

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