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"Carlos Slim Helu Charitable Foundation" Donation Scam

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Apr 10, 2018 2018-04-10T23:49:15-05:00
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Online users are asked to be aware of "Carlos Slim Helu Charitable Foundation" donation scams. The name of the Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor, and philanthropist, is 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 business magnate as part of his charity project. But, Carlos Slim Helu is not randomly donating money to people around the world.

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A Sample of the "Carlos Slim Helu Charitable Foundation" Donation Scam

From: "Slim" ''www''@clear.ocn.ne.jp
Date: April 10, 2018 at 11:17:12 AM EDT
Subject: Your Email Has Won $2.500,000 usd
Reply-To: carfoundation@writeme.com
GREETINGS,
My name is Carlos Slim Helu, A philanthropist the CEO and Chairman of the Carlos Slim Helu Foundation Charitable Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the world. I believe strongly in giving while living? I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people and i have decided to secretly give ($2.500,000 usd) Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United states Dollars, to randomly selected individuals worldwide. On receipt of this email, you should count yourself as the lucky individual. Your email address was chosen online while searching at random.
Kindly get back to me with your full address at your earliest convenience, so I know your email address is valid. http://www.carlosslim.com/biografia_ing.html open my web page and read more about me or you can google my name ( Carlos Slim Helu ) contact my charity organisation committe chairman in Kenya which is the only Organisation i have in Africa.
Name... Mr.Henrique Marquez
Email: carfoundation@writeme.com
Forward him this following details.
FULL NAME
ADDRESS
COUNTRY
PHONE
NUMBER.
Please make sure you contact him for further instruction about your winning of $2.5million usd because am traveling to Japan for investment project and i willl not return back to Usa or Mexico until september.
Regards,
Carlos Slim Helu Foundation Charitable Foundation

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 so-called 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 "Carlos Slim Helu Donation" scam emails are asked not to respond to or follow the instructions in them. They should just delete the email messages instead. For those who have responded, they should be careful going forward because they will be contacted by scammers who will attempt to scam them.

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Oct 26, 2021 at 3:15 PM by an anonymous user from: Johannesburg, Newlands, Gauteng, South Africa

I have received the email but luckily I do research so I won't sent any cents I give my details already thank you

Sep 29, 2021 at 7:41 PM by an anonymous user from: Ortakentyahsi, Bodrum, Mugla, Turkey

I have received one of these emails, looked up slim online as suggested. I went on stage further and looked him up on fb. I copied the email to his foundation via messenger, and got the reply to forward my details and money etc as requested in the email. What is going on with this scam?

Apr 8, 2020 at 12:10 PM by an anonymous user from: Noble, Louisiana, United States

I have received such an email. I did not send any money to these individuals. Since Mr. Helu is aware of these scams, why won't he do something to stop these scammers from hurting innocent people?

Mar 24, 2020 at 9:56 PM by info

"From: Carlos Slim Helu
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 6:25 PM
Subject: Re:

Thank you for confirming the validity of your email and also accepting this grant with good faith. I Carlos Slim Helú. technically is responsible for awarding grant/donations in any part of the world and I have decided to give US$2,500,000.00 to you and other lucky individuals. It gives me great joy finally being able to make this donation to you, let's make the world a better place by giving and solving each others problem, all people have the right to opportunity, equity and dignity.

I will like to re-assure you of the legitimacy of this services as I want you to open my page link to know more about me. Please use the money wisely, I only want to feel good by helping people at this time of the year, this is the only thing that makes me happy all the time, I will advise you as the prospective lucky person to be calm not to loose this great opportunity which millions of people are trying to entangled but the chances just couldn't come for them as they don't know how it works, and have never seen such before.

To facilitate the disbursement process of the funds valued at $2,500,000.00] which have been donated solely to you,send to me your bellow details for my record purpose before proceeding with remitting the sum to you. I am trusting that you will use the money wisely and judiciously. I ask 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 to see the joy and happiness of giving.

Do make sure you provide me with your complete information below for my record purpose before I forward it to my selected payout bank for disbursement.

Your Full Name:
Current Address:
Country:
Telephone No:
Date of Birth:
Occupation:
Marital Status

I am trusting you to make good use of this money."

Received this scam.

Mar 13, 2020 at 8:16 AM by info

"From: Carlos Foundation
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 5:59 PM
Subject: Your email has won you $2.5 Million dollars

Dear Lucky winner,

My name is Carlos Slim Helu, A philanthropist the CEO and Chairman of the Carlos Slim Helu Charitable Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the world. I believe strongly in giving while living?I had one idea that never left in my mind that you should use your wealth to help people and I have decided to secretly give $2,500,000.00 USD to randomly selected individuals worldwide. On receipt of this email, you should count yourself as one of the lucky individual. Your email address was chosen online while searching at random. Kindly get back to me at your earliest convenience, so I know your email address is valid: cfoundation7-gmail.com

In case you receive this message in your spam folder it could be due to your internet service provider (ISP) so kindly move to your inbox before replying.

Regards,
Carlos Slim Helu"

Here is another scam.

Mar 16, 2020 at 8:42 PM by an anonymous user from: Ferndale, Washington, United States

The email on mine is from officecarlos267-gmail.com. The rest of the message is the same. Received 3/13

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