"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam

Online users are asked to be aware of the "Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" scam. The names of the Tennessee Powerball Jackpot winners, who won $533 million, 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 lottery winner as part of their charity project. But, Lisa and John Robinson are not randomly donating money to people around the world, this is just another advance fee fraud or scam.

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Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation Scam

The "Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam

Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 3:12 PM

From: Gillian Adrian <info@shore.ocn.ne.jp>

Subject: Re: YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN !!!

Lisa and John Robinson Tennessee Powerball Winners

Dear Beneficiary,

This notification is from Lisa and John Robinson Legal representative and you are to benefit from the above mentioned family charity project aimed at touching lives and helping those in need across the world as God has blessed them.

This donation of $3M(Three Million United States Dollar) is made out to you and mostly to generously help Lisa and Robinson extend hands of giving to the less privileged, orphans and charity organizations within your locality.

Lisa and John Robinson won the Powerball Jackpot of $528M on January 15, 2016 and voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $90M to charity.

All participants were selected randomly through email address extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies .

Should you wish to verify, below are links to that effect.

tified-john-robinson-lisa-robinson

Kindly forward your Message of Acceptance to:

charitysectt@lisaandjohnrobinson.net

Mrs Gillian Adrian

Lisa and John Robinson Legal Representative

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 Lisa and John Robinson lottery donation scam emails are asked not to respond to or follow the instructions in them, they should delete them 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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April 12, 2022 at 9:00 AM by
"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam
an anonymous user from: Mayfield, Kentucky, United States

I received one of these emails this morning. I told them I know they are scamming me and they are being reported.

Delete

April 2, 2022 at 12:13 AM by
"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam
an anonymous user from: Nairobi, Kenya

Received this scam:

"Dear Friend, My Name Is Lisa Robinson

Greetings of the day to you. I got your response and firstly I want to congratulate you for being selected to be a part of this life changing project. To personally benefit from what the Lord has done for me and also have the opportunity to touch lives around you while making yours better. You do not have to be skeptical about it as this is not a scam, it is absolutely a blessing from God. I do believe that putting smiles on the faces of other people by reaching out to some individuals, the less privileged around the world, the local fire departments, the Red Cross, Community assistance, and charity organizations in Haiti, Asia, Africa, Europe, and some other parts of the world is the right thing to do.

This New Year I have decided to donate the sum of $1,200,000 USD to you as part of my annual charity project to raise hopes and plant joy in the bosoms lives of many individuals in your local area in this pandemic economic crisis from my Millions dollars Jackpot Lottery winning funds. I prayed and searched over the Internet for someone to donate this money to in your state.

My Sympathy for the sorrows of others has been heightened by the tragedy in my life. My father took his own life in 2005,a few years after, My daughter died of overdoes in 2010 two months before her 27th birthday. I am doing this not to gain fame, as a matter of fact, I have decided to put this away from the media and my sole purpose of doing this was as a result of a long talk with my only surviving children and my husband who has always advised me to donate to strangers in this doom and gloom before my sunset. because we know that there are lots of families out there who live on paycheck to paycheck and others that cannot take care of their financial obligations. Although I won these lottery funds, we have helped some charity organizations, family members, strangers and friends from my winnings.

To facilitate the disbursement process of the money: $1,200,000.00 that has been solely donated to you, please send us your information so that we may forward the details to the payout bank immediately. I implore you to touch as many lives as you can by stretching a helping hand to the less privileged around you which is the sole objective of this donation.

In view of all these, we want you to know that measures have been put in place for our intentions to be implemented swiftly and by so doing, we request that you re-confirm your details once again so that we can immediately forward your information to my lawyer who will guide you through.

Full Names:

Contact/resident Address:

Gender:

Age:

Phone Number:

Country/Nationality:

Should you wish to verify, below are links to that effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN5wk7KO_cI

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/powerball-winners-tennessee-identified-john-robinson-lisa-robinson

Please be aware that we do not need your information for any other purpose, we want these information because we need to have a correct record of whom and where we are donating to so as to establish a better relationship with you as well and because of the Identity theft going around the internet which I have been a victim in the past, I do not want to ask you for your ID as we do not want to leave an impression in your mind that I want to steal your identity).

We would like you to re-assure me that you will follow our instructions and help me fulfill this dream before I would provide you with information on how you will receive this funds, and if you feel you cannot handle this project you should inform me, so I can quickly look for another individual to donate the money to.

If you have any question please don't hesitate to ask. So I will be waiting for your incentive response..

By the way, this is my alternative email: info@robinsongenealogy.org

Sincerely,

Mrs. Lisa Robinson"

Delete

March 1, 2021 at 6:21 AM by
"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam
an anonymous user from: Mecklenburg, Matthews, North Carolina, United States

I just got this email the other day. I sent them my address, name and cell number. I pray now that they can’t get anymore of my information. Thank you for letting me know.

Delete

February 6, 2021 at 11:10 AM by
"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam
an anonymous user from: Burlington, Mt Laurel, New Jersey, United States

Dear Beneficiary,

Thank you for contacting our firm, security of your financial information is extremely important to us,the donor introduced a debit card payment method to enable all beneficiaries receive their funds without any interference,submit the information below for further processing .

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Name to be embossed on the card :

Mailing Address:

Cell Phone Number:

Attach a copy of your ID or Passport to confirm the above statement. :

The charges associated with the delivery are $125 for special courier,$25 as notary fee in the area court and shall be paid within 5 working days of receiving this email.

We invite you to text us anytime during normal business hours, 9-5, Monday-Friday at 423-528-0180, If your email includes documents we will be certain to add them to your file. We look forward to the above directives .

Joseph Townsend

Lisa and John Robinson Legal representative

this is what I received, then I started investigating

Delete

January 14, 2021 at 3:27 PM by
"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam
an anonymous user from: Upper Baseline, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

BTW the email was ¨covid19donations@wcam.ase.ro¨

Delete

January 15, 2021 at 9:31 PM by
"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam
an anonymous user from: Arapahoe, Englewood, Colorado, United States

Ditto—it’s been tweaked and mine says Dear Beloved! So sad and they are invoking the name of God. Wow—no fear of the LORD! Hopefully they’ll repent before they wake up in H**l!

Delete

January 14, 2021 at 3:26 PM by
"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam
an anonymous user from: Upper Baseline, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

I got the spam too:

"Dear Beloved,

Greetings to you. This is a kind notification that you have been chosen to benefit from our charity project aimed at touching lives and helping those that we can across the world as God has blessed us. My wife and I won the Powerball Jackpot of $528 Million Dollars on January 15, 2016 and we have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $80 Million Dollars to charity. In the battle to stop the spread of COVID-19 across the globe and the vast effect it has caused lives and communities, an online e-mail beta test was ran and your email address was picked, to receive COVID-19 DONATION FUND of $4 Million

This donation of $4 Million is made out to you so to enable you strengthen your personal issues and mostly to generously help us extend hands of giving to the less privileged, orphans and charity organizations within your locality.

Please follow the News Link below for more info;

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/01/15/tenn-couple-claims-share-powerball-jackpot/78838582/

Kindly forward your Message of Acceptance to us at: donations@eremitmms.com

Remain Blessed.

Lisa and John Robinson"

Delete

January 14, 2021 at 12:51 AM by
"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam
an anonymous user from: Factoria, Bellevue, Washington, United States

Well I just figured out about these people and I can't believe what sick m**o's are. I feel so stupid. I sent a lot of my information but no money, thank God. I hope these people get caught.

Delete

June 30, 2020 at 8:32 PM by
"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam
an anonymous user from: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

I just received an email from these people and replied with my home address before thinking about a scam. what should I do?

Delete

June 30, 2020 at 4:50 PM by
"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam
an anonymous user from: Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

I just got an email from these people. So this fake?

Delete

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"Lisa and John Robinson Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam