Fake "Financial Crime Commission Compensation" Emails Being Sent by Scammers Scamming - Fraud 12 12 251 0 Mar 6, 2019 2019-03-06T15:09:09-05:00 Mar 6, 2019 2019-03-06T15:12:19-05:00 Online Threat Alerts (OTA) Online users who have received fake "Financial Crime Commission Compensation" emails like the one below, which claim they will receive thousands or millions of dollars in compensation, should delete the email messages and not follow the instructions in them. This is because the email messages are an advance-fee scam. This scam is a form of fraud and one of the most common types of confidence trick. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster requires in order to obtain the large sum. A Fake "Financial Crime Commission Compensation" EmailSubject: Your COMPENSATION PAYMENT OF $5 MILLION/ (EFCC) FOREIGNOPERATIONS DEPTDate: 03/02/2019 10:00 amFrom: <info@impsat.com.co>To: Recipients <info@impsat.com.co>Reply-To: <johnronconsultant@aliyun.com>We wish to inform you of your abandoned fund which has been approved andis ready for payout.Please respond to enable the payout department (E.F.C.C) to contact youwith more details.Mr John Will E-mail: johnronconsultant@aliyun.comSincerely,Mr. Ibrahim Mustafa MaguCHAIRMAN ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION