"The Ruth Walter Foundation Charitable Foundation" Donation Scams

If you have received email messages similar to the one below, which claim Ruth Walter is donating millions of dollars to randomly selected individuals worldwide, please do not follow the instruction in it because it is a scam being sent by cybercriminals to potential victims. The so-called Ruth Walter 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 Ruth Walter Foundation Charitable Foundation Donation Scams

A "The Ruth Walter Foundation Charitable Foundation" Email Scam

From: Ruth Walter <directoramartina@radiovisionvida.com>

Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 11:30 AM

Subject: FOR YOU:

I am Ruth Walter and my foundation is donating $550,000USD to you.Contact us via my email at (atlerruth@gmail.com) for further details.

Best Regards,

Ruth Walter

Copyright ©2019• The Ruth Walter Foundation• All Rights Reserved.

Persons who were tricked by "The Ruth Walter Foundation Charitable Foundation" 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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June 24, 2019 at 2:01 PM by
"The Ruth Walter Foundation Charitable Foundation" Donation Scams
an anonymous user from: Ljubljana, Slovenia

"Thanks for your responds,

I’m Christy Ruth Walton, I was born on February 8, 1949, in Jackson, Wyoming, us, residence of Teton village, Wyoming. from Newport, Jackson county, Arkansas united states, married to john t Walton owner of Wal-Mart, subsequently my husband have invested in oil and gas industries in most of west Africa countries before he met his untimely death on June 27, 2005,my husband john Walton died on June 27, 2005, when the cgs hawk arrow home-built ultra light aircraft (registered as an "experimental aircraft" under faa regulations) that he was piloting crashed in Jackson, Wyoming. He was born on October 8, 1946.

I Christy Walton owns 50.8% of the Wal-Mart ownership and 96% shares Ownership for arvest bank. I also holds 30% of the ownership for first Solar, a solar energy company.

It has been my dream to create an appropriate channel to reach out to The society through a well-articulated philanthropic avenue that will Enhance the living standard of a particular segment of our societies Who are at the receiving end of government negligence and Irresponsible leadership in many nation today where children and women are the most vulnerable to deceases, child abuse and many social vices.

In our world today. Really it is pathetic to see widows and children in

Such an ugly situations in their life.so due to my present health.

Challenges I could not wait any longer to have it done by my very self.

After much emotional reflections on how best to give back to the society and having prayed over it often time I came to this conclusio to contact you for a fund belonging (to my late husband and my self) the sum of $13.5 million usd which my late husband deposited in a bank in Togo west Africa before his death. And until my husband's death we were married for many years with only one son his name lukas walton, who currently resides in san Diego, California,he lacks noting as he has everything at his disposals as a major stake holder in Walton family foundation, my son worth $11–25 billion.

Now the doctors have confirmed to me that I will not live more than few months from now since I am presently sick in a hospital of cancer of the lungs and this is why I have to take this bold step of donating the fund to you, I want you to use this fund to help the less privileges in any where in the world of your choice.

As soon as you receive the fund from the bank you are required to take 10% for any expenses that will arise in the cause of transferring the fund to you as my beneficiary and 20% for your effort then the remaining 70% will be use for charity works. Please, I do not need any telephone conversation for now in respect of my doctor's advice and mores because of the presence of my husband's relatives around me always even here in the hospital and I do not want them to know anything about the existence of this fund because I do not want my husband's money to be misused without using it for the purpose as i have instructed.

So, to enable you receive the fund from the bank where it is presently deposited, you should contact my family lawyer, Maitre KouevI Adade

Remy through his e-mail address:( info84475@gmail.com or remychambers001@consultant.com )so that he will guide on how to receive the fund and if you have any question, you can ask him for he knows everything about this fund, why am saying this is because of my bad health condition.

May god blessed you.

Mrs christy ruth walton"

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April 1, 2019 at 11:22 AM by
"The Ruth Walter Foundation Charitable Foundation" Donation Scams
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Here is another fake Ruth Walter email:

"From: Ruth Walter <atlerruth@gmail.com>

Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2019 7:02 AM

Subject: Greetings to you,

Greetings to you,

I am Mrs. Ruth Walter i am a 64 years old, and I am from Sterling, Massachusetts, Moved to South Africa in January after i won my Power ball Jackpot of $61.5 Million dollars in December 11, 2016, My jackpot was a gift from God to me and my entire family has agreed to do the will of God. I may not know you, but i believe if you were chosen by God to receive my donation of $550,000 dollars. You must be a God fearing individual, I am a catholic and i believe that Good things happens to those people who wait and also believe.

I have decided to donate the sum of $550,000 USD to you as part of my charity project to improve the lives of lot many individuals in your local area from my $61.5 Million dollars Jackpot Lottery winning funds. I prayed and searched over the Internet for someone to donate this money to in your state and I saw your profile on Google/Face book list of email owners and I picked you.

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,one of My daughter died of overdoes in 2013 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 before i die. because we know that there are lots of families out there who live on pay check to pay check and others that cannot take care of their financial obligations. Although, I won this lottery funds December 11, 2016 and we have helped some charity organizations, family members, strangers and friends from my winnings.

I have cancer and the doctor informed us that i might not live long to see the end of this year. my wishes are to do good things before i finally depart this sinful world. My children and my husband are all I have got now and they mean the whole world to me. I have decided to fulfill my wish in this Year. I would like you to invest this funds in a lucrative business to create more job opportunity to help jobless and needy people in your locality as we have already donated money to the local fire department, the red cross, I have assisted Schenck High School's Florida, Indonesia earthquake victims, hospitals in Truro where i underwent my cancer treatment, and some other organizations in Asia and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes. We just kept just 7% of the entire lottery sum to our self for the raining days and which I am still spending on my treatments bills...

To facilitate the disbursement process of the funds ($550,000 dollars) which have been donated solely to you, You are to send me your full names, address and phone number for disbursement(I asked for this brief information just to know who we are donating this money to 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).

I am hoping that you will be able to use the funds judiciously over there in your state. 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 funds to you in the first place.

We would like you to re-assure us 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.

I anticipate to hear from you soon.

God bless you and Warm Regards,

Best Regards,

Mrs Ruth Walter"

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"The Ruth Walter Foundation Charitable Foundation" Donation Scams