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The Mr. Mike Weirsky Lottery Donation Scam Created by Scammers
The Mr. Mike Weirsky Lottery Donation Scam Created by Scammers

Online users are asked to be aware of "Mr. Mike Weirsky" lottery donation scams. The name of the New Jersey man who won $273 million in the Mega Millions jackpot, 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 his charity project. But, Mr. Mike Weirsky is not randomly donating money to people around the world.

The "Mr. Mike Weirsky" Lottery Donation Scam

From: Garde Heller <gilles@lepere.org>

Date: June 10, 2019 at 10:41:07 AM EDT

To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Subject: Grant Donation

Reply-To: mikeweirsky445@gmail.com

A donation of $1,500,000.00 USD was donated to you by Mr. Mike Weirsky, a power-ball jackpot lottery winner of $273 Million. Reply to mikeweirsky445@gmail.com for claim.

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 Mr. Mike Weirsky lottery donation scam emails are asked not to respond to or follow the instructions in them. They should just delete the email messages 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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by an anonymous user from: Hays, Kansas, United States

They are a scam on plenty of fish.

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by an anonymous user from: Kalaheo, Hawaii, United States

I think I got scammed, by this..they asked me to send a $50 amazon card...

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by info

Another scam:

"Good day,
Michael J. Weirsky is my name, Winner of a $273 Million Jackpot on March 8, 2019. My foundation is donating the sum of $1,000.000.00 to you, to help with this pandemic and take care of the less privilege around you. Contact me via Email: micjiisky-aol.com for Info/Claim if Interested.
Sincerely,
Michael J Weirsky
micjiisky-aol.com"

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by info

Here is another scam:

"Good day,

Michael J. Weirsky is my name, Winner of a $273 Million Jackpot on March 8, 2019. My foundation is  donating the sum of $1,000.000.00 to you, to help with this pandemic and take care of the less privilege around you. Contact me via Email: micjiisky-aol.com for Info/Claim if Interested.

Sincerely,
Michael J Weirsky
micjiisky-aol.com"

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by an anonymous user from: Victoria, Australia

10th October 2022
Had recently have introduced with a Micheal J Weirdsky/Newitt Micheal J Weirdsry used a email account as well as a usa phone number
He was requesting Steam gifts card and proclaimed that he would share his winnings and wanted to access my personal information and he got desperate and continued to text me on what's app he wanted to open up tax file information and then started to threaten that if I wasn't to do these things that he is going to ruin me and get me into a big debt and started emailing and goggling everything about me and said that I dont know what he is capable of.

He said he was going to be coming to kill me and sent death threats and he shouldn't be messed with as he knew where I lived and he said he arranged someone to come kill me and find my kids that I should do what he requested and he wouldn't put harm on me. II didn't do these things he requested he started to access my accounts and changed my account information so that he can receive my super and he put alot of the details as Micheal Newitt and he changed the address to some hertiage society
What a piece of work.

I have reported it and found that he used alot of different types of names. I have blocked everything and have not heard from him or she again

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by an anonymous user from: North St James Town, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

He also uses the name Brian Weirsky. Says it is his middle name. He can be unpleasant when you say you are not sending any More money. I was scammed and lost several thousand dollars to him. I am no longer sending any more money to him for anything.
I did read that he is from Africa. I do not know where he is from or his name. If he got money from everyone the same as me he must be well off.

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by an anonymous user from: Henniker, Weare, New Hampshire, United States

I have been asked to send a 100.00 saying once I send it and it has been verified that it has been purchased then I I will receive the 10000.00 like I'm stupid because when you win money or some one is giving you money. HELLO NO ONE WILL ASK YOU TO SEND MONEY TO GET MONEY. I was born but not last night nice try🤣🤣🤣🤣.I feel so bad for the people who have been victimized I've been there know the feeling.

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by an anonymous user from: Van Nuys, California, United States

Now they asking to buy a cvs gift card for 100$ and peal off the silver back and take a pic of the card and your reciept and send to them to get your money

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by an anonymous user from: Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I was approached on Instagram, I found the person on the other end of the message seemed to be pushy in asking for information.. I became suspicious, and actually hit the video call button as we were sending too each other at the time.
Whoever it was quickly hung up. I did manage to get a glimpse of the person. I have not received any more messages or requests.

What a scam.. how I nearly gave up so much personal information has really woke me up.

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by an anonymous user from: San Antonio, Texas, United States

The scam is on Instagram:

mike_weirsky1123

119 posts
852 followers
7,378 following
Mike
I’m Mike Weirsky , the mega winner of $273 Million in Mega Millions Jackpot of power ball, I have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $50,000
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1dVDmcSr8j8

He tried to get me on Instagram if you receive a message from this account beware

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by an anonymous user from: Downtown Redmond, Redmond, Washington, United States

Yeah but I reached out to him just to see what his catch was and 1 was to send him money to claim my money he was sending well went around with him about If I send you money then why would I be asking for money that means I would have it right but I don't have it any type pushing it I saw I just can't I don't have the money to send you and then it's next step was I need your username and password okay and what and he says your Google account okay give him a false one well then I also need your Verizon username and passcode I don't have Verizon and then all of that was all three different phone companies in the title too and I said the jokes on you fella night put talking to since

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by an anonymous user from: Turner, Ashburn, Georgia, United States

I just received something on Instagram supposedly from him. I knew it was too good to be true!

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by an anonymous user from: Ashburn, Virginia, United States

Same thing is happening to me now. He promised me 20,000.00. I’ve been playing his games I’ve lost 2,250. He seems so believable . Micheal seemed so kind and willing to help. Always giving alittle bit of money here and there. It seemed so true. Everyday seemed they needed alittle bit more money. As soon as they got it. They would stop taking to me. Then the next morning would be another expense. Like I need money to rent a fedex truck. It’s 700 dollars. Agent paid 200. Micheal will pay some u pay the rest. Of course I fell for hook line and sinker.
I’m so stupid. He got me on instagram.

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by an anonymous user from: Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

He's on twitter now - John werisky -werisky_charity

Thanks to you I'm not falling for it!

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by an anonymous user from: Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States

I reported them on twitter. How are they still on??

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by an anonymous user from: DeKalb, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

I told my that I was not interested in receiving any money. Now this person wants me to open a big account so they can give me money that way. Again I told him I was not interested again he is insisting

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by an anonymous user from: Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States

Report him and block !!

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by an anonymous user from: Turner, Ashburn, Georgia, United States

Mike J Weirsky almost took me for
$500 just like the rest of you with similar stories! I too detected a foreign accent and things just didn't make sense. If he was going to give me$20,000 because I was in need,why would he ask me to pay an activation fee of $500? Also he kept insisting that we do the transactions thru bitcoin or coinflip!I told him no , I didn't know anything about that and I wasn't going to do that,but he kept on insisting that I do that!I finally went on line and found a company that does people searches and found the real Mike J Weirsky!It gave me a lot of info including email addresses, phone numbers, land lines and cell,addresses,even his mother's name address and phone number!

Anyway I called one of the cell phone numbers and it was the real Mike J Weirsky and I was told I was being scammed! I said no you just kept me from being scammed!He acted annoyed and said he gets hundreds of these kind of calls every week!I said , don't you want to do something about someone impersonating you and he acted like he could care less and told me to never call that number again! I thought,what a jerk!

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by an anonymous user from: Downtown Redmond, Redmond, Washington, United States

Yeah he looks and sound to much like a jerk to wanting to be helping ppl that's what throw me off first

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by an anonymous user from: Rome, Latium, Italy

Beware also this:

Scammer E-mail:

"MW
MIKE WEIRSKY

Dear Beneficiary,

You have a ($ 3,000,000.00) charitable donation from Mr. Mike Weirsky, a $ 273 million power-ball jackpot lottery winner. I am donating to 5 random people if you receive this email, your email has been selected after a rotation. I have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $ 3 million to you as one of the 5 selected, to verify my winnings

Kindly reply to: mike.weirsky.foundation002-gmail.com
For your claim

Also this:

michaelweirsky-gmail.com

Michaelweirsky

This web:

hxxps://michaelweirsky.wixsite.com/michaelweirsky"

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by an anonymous user from: Rome, Latium, Italy

Beware of this:

"Dear Friend,

After winning the Power ball Jackpot of 273,000 000,00 $ in the
Month of March, It was placed in my heart by God to Donate Funds to
the poor and less privilege, I told some Ministers about this which
they said was a good idea and promised they will get me a list of
some people who can help others with my donation and put smile on the
face of the needy, I decided to select my self by going to Microsoft
and Google to make a research, Google provided Ten email address and
yours came up first, so I emailed you, that was how I got your Email
My donation OF $3,000,000.00 US dollars may not be much to you but i
believe it will go a long way to improving your standard of living
like my Power ball Jackpot did to me, my entire household will be
glad for you to visit us after my donation gets to you. Do this on
time so you can contact the payout Bank for further directives to
receive your Donation, once again Congratulations.

DETAILS YOU NEED TO CONTACT MY PAY-OUT BANK

Bank Name: ACCESS TRANSFER Email Address: Customerservice109-outlook.com

Contact the Bank via the Bank Email Address {Customerservice109-outlook.com
} to speed up the transaction.


IMPORTANT: IMMEDIATELY YOU CONTACT MY PAY-OUT BANK, YOU HAVE TO NOTIFY
ME, BY SENDING EMAIL TO ME TO LET ME KNOW THAT YOU HAVE CONTACTED MY
PAY-OUT BANK. I wish you and your family the timeless treasures of
Christ, the warmth of home, the love of family and the company of good
friends. And Good luck. get back to me and let me know what you have
discuss with my Bank.

Best regards
Mike weirsky."

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by an anonymous user from: Rome, Latium, Italy

Beware of this:

"Hello,

I acknowledge receipt of your email and want to congratulate you on being chosen to be part of this life changing project. I'm Mike Weirsky, a 54 year old from Alpha, New Jersey, USA and as you already know I'm a winner of the $273 million Powerball jackpot lottery for which I will forever be grateful to God.

At this point, my family and I decided to donate $3,000,000.00 to ten (10) lucky people worldwide as part of what we promised God that He would make me a winner. It is a donation for you and your family and also for you to help the less fortunate, sick, disabled and cancer patients etc. So if you are receiving this email from me it means that you have been chosen by my humble family and I with the support of Power-Ball Lottery and Gaming (PLG), Google and Microsoft Corporation who have helped me mailing- Gathering data for a random sample I found you via Microsoft Powered Message.

Please can you learn more about me and the lottery winnings by visiting the website below and see for yourself how God works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dVDmcSr8j8
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mega-millions-mike-weirsky-273-million-dollar-winner-good-samaritan/
https://www.today.com/news/lottery-winner-comes-forward-after-losing-winning-ticket-t150030

Honestly, you are very lucky to be a $3,000,000.00 beneficiary. My donation may not mean much to you, but I believe it will greatly improve your standard of living, just as my Power Ball jackpot did for me. To facilitate the payment of funds ($3,000,000.00) donated exclusively to you, I would like to know a few important things about my beneficiary;

Beneficiary Full Name:
Telephone number:
home address:
Country:
Federal state:
Birth date:
Gender:
Marital status:
Job occupation:
Two of your current photos
This donation is made to you to empower your personal causes and most importantly, to generously help us reach out to the less fortunate, orphans and charities in your area. May the Lord God bless your heart to be a blessing to your family and society at large and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask. I expect to hear from you soon.

God bless and best regards,
Mike Weirsky"

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by an anonymous user from: Dallas, Texas, United States

I got the same message from him on Instagram. He is saying he will send a driver with the money to a public location. I figured if it is a scam, he'll ask me to get a gift card, pay a fee for the delivery, or fill out a form with my personal information claiming it's for tax purposes. I'm not doing any of those things.

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by an anonymous user from: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Same thing just happened, I am in Canada

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by an anonymous user from: Veverí, Brno, Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic

E-mail to Google Mail, already landed into spam, though. Interestingly, the message, saying that I am getting 1500000USD out of a mega-million win was written in Czech, as I also correspond in Czech. I look at these, as the translations of these letters from English are usually entertaining. So was this one. A claim was translated as complaint. This was Jan. 26, 2022 - still going on.

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by an anonymous user from: Tyler, Texas, United States

I was definitely scammed by someone claiming to be Mike Wiersky. They did this through texts email and cash app. Please beware of these people

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by an anonymous user from: Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada

Also asked for a 100 gift card!!

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by an anonymous user from: Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada

This man contacted me through a dating app saying he's going to help..but wants both my online account info AND my password!! Who would be so stupid to offer it up???

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by an anonymous user from: Harris, Houston, Texas, United States

I am being told by a Mike weirdsky on TikTok and emailed by as we speakan Agent James Bumgar from FedEx to send $250.00 for package to a George Jones's on cash app

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by an anonymous user from: Anne Arundel County, Crownsville, Maryland, United States

I was contacted on POF by Mike Weirsky who wanted me to contact him on Facebook and he then wanted my name and address and was going to send me money Via Fed Ex but I heard from other recipients you have to pay Fed Ex $200 for the money he wants to give you is this a big time scam??

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by an anonymous user from: Greenville, South Carolina, United States

It is horrible. He tried to get me too. He wanted $350.00 from me to get the FedEx package with a cash prize. What a scammer!!! Instagram - -michaelweirsky0971356

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by an anonymous user from: Dupont Circle, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

I'm right in the middle of this scam and as soon as I have more details plan to turn this over to the FBI.

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by an anonymous user from: Florence, Campi Bisenzio, Tuscany, Italy

salve a tutti

sono appena stato contattato su instagram

bla bla bla e poI nome ,cognome ,e numero dI telefono...

state in guardI

ciao dall'Italia


Hello everyone

I just got contacted on instagram

blah blah blah and then name, surname, and telephone number ...

be on your guard

Hello from Italy

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by an anonymous user from: Walle, Bremen, Bremen, Germany

It was a wonderful dream for a moment. I talked to him about a foundation but he said he would need therefore my email address and password. That´s absolutely fishy and unreasonable so of cause I did nothing. It´s horrible that there is nothing you can do about those people or is there?

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by info

Another scam:

"Attn: You have a charity donation of $1,500,000.00 USD from Mr. Mike Weirsky, a power-ball jackpot lottery winner of $273 Million USD. Please reply to mikeweirsky445-outlook.com for more information."

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by an anonymous user from: Downtown Redmond, Redmond, Washington, United States

In my situation they got a bit more sophisticated in their quest to scam. Everything initially happened through Twitter(Mike J. W-matty_matty4L) until he asked for my # which I shared. After hearing my story he was willing to help me pay off some of my bills especially my mortgage and credit card. I questioned why he was doing this and he said he just want to help people. He further went on to share pics of ppl he supposedly helped. He was able to get my name, address and DOB ‘for verification purposes’. Then he told me of an online bank I should sign up for as he was going to wire me the money needed to pay off my bills.

I signed up and he initially said he was going to send me $75,000 through FedEx(complete with tracking # and all). In this account he ‘wired’ $375,000.00 into it.

I googled the bank and it exists however certain links do not work as in an official website and the typos for certain words were questionable. Also the chat feature although it was ‘live chat’ is not however as you’re signing onto the site an external chat comes on as if they attached a separate application to the bank app to try and legitimize it. They even have a feature for you to email the chat content to yourself. I guess I was asking too many questions as too many things were not adding up, they froze my funds because I am to send them a fee of $1050 to request my ATM card and checkbook. Mr Mike(or Mike Senior as the phone contact suggestion shows) started becoming adamant about me getting these items so I could pay my bills. I told him that I do not have the $$$ so he then suggested that he wire the money to my bank so I could pay the fee that way I would be able to use the funds ‘straight away’ to pay off my bills. He is going to need my banking info such as my username/password/routing and account number so he could ‘monitor’ the transactions live.

He’s trustworthy and I will be on the line the whole time and he wouldn’t be able to do anything without my permission the whole time. I told him I was not comfortable and he knows too much of my personal info as it is. I refused to give him my info and let him know that I don’t have much but he is not going to steal what little I have by way of my identity if that’s the endgame. He got my routing/account number but I know with that there is no way he could get into my account with the info he had. I told him wire the money to my account to pay the fees and I will then be able to release the funds back to him because with help like what he claim he’s providing, I’ll rather continue to struggle. He started telling me I’m stressing him out and I have trust issues. I said to him, funny I watched your tapes when you were accepting your check and you don’t sound anything like the dude who won. You have a foreign accent not the good old American accent that I heard from the actual winner. He said his mother is from Greece and I countered what does her being from Greece have to do with how you sound versus the real winner. What are you trying to hide?

I did a search of the New Jersey # he was using to contact me and it came back to no one at all which is another flag for me. All this happened between Friday and yesterday. I ended up blocking him on Twitter and I totally blocked him from calling/texting me. I have all the receipts of his deception and I will make a formal police report as well as tell my story here so no one else get caught due to desperation in circumstances. We all hope there is a good person out there that is genuinely willing to help. I didn’t get caught in this web of sophisticated lies but he does have my name DOB, address and account number unfortunately. I do have safeguards built in from my bank that would alert me and the bank if anything nefarious is tried. His bank is SIBEU.com and his gift is ‘Mike jW. giveaway program’. He’s claiming is is Mike Weirsky the New Jersey sole mega million winner from Alpha. He posts pics and videos of the actual winner along with some now questionable pics of people he has helped.

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by an anonymous user from: United States

I was asked to send my SSN an Driver's license number an picture of my driver's license. I said I will not. Then asked for a green dot card I dont have one. Go purchase one $200 document. Sorry dont have the extra $200. So I wouldnt give them info.

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by an anonymous user from: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

:-) und diese ausweise und fotos werden dann verwendet um weiter zu scammen


:-) and these ID cards and photos are then used to continue scamming

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by an anonymous user from: Loudoun, Ashburn, Virginia, United States

I got one on Twitter I actually reached out to him to see what he would say. He asked about my debt and how much it was for each. Strange out of the all the debt he picked credit cards to payoff. He then said and I quote "I'll pay all your credit cards now" then proceeds to send me a bank account # and routing number to use to pay them off

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by an anonymous user from: Orange, Chester, New York, United States

I was a total fool and believed in him totally. I am now 30,000.00 in debt. I will never get out from under I am 77 years old and was so desperate . Now I am 10 times worst off than I was.

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by an anonymous user from: Central Business District, Rochester, New York, United States

Well, I was almost scammed as well by ole Mikey.

He preys after women and those in need, which in today's world, everyone is hurting. Considering I met the full criteria, I came close to the gift card part of the scam, but immediately had a red giant flag bop me in the head. Unfortunately, after initially talking to him, this b*****d has my name and address and quite frankly, I'm nervous. He texted me from a NJ number, which is just hours away from me...UGH I should mention he offered to give me $35k.

He made some big mistakes with me though and tomorrow I will be calling Fed Ex to send them the name of the driver, the photo of the driver and all the reference numbers he gave me.

He uses several twitter accounts, facebook, instagram, gmail and who knows what else. The second he asked me to buy a $100 gift card, was my red flag moment.

I've read he can become irate and aggressive when he doesn't succeed so I just texted him that I was unable to purchase the gift card. I told him it was odd to ask for a gift card in the first place and said thanks anyway. I immediately blocked him on my cell and social media account.

I also reported him and will be exposing him tomorrow to all my followers on Twitter...and I have thousands of followers.

Please do not engage with this individual. Report and block asap.

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by an anonymous user from: Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Hi. I live in SWEDEN and was contacted by him on Instagram this morning. He said I would receiver 50.000 within 24 hr. I did give my name phone number email but nothing else. I guess I will find out tomorrow if it’s a scam.
Who can I report this to . Now I am nervous

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by an anonymous user from: Bucharest, Romania

Even me, he said his name is Michael_j_weirsky_2081

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by an anonymous user from: Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, United States

I feel like a dummy to believe this. Messaged me via IG and made it believable that he was sincere about the entire matter. He works along side with a Forest Gipson and a Eunice Mugo. Like I said I believed them, they sent text messages from google voice numbers, then they requested to $150 then dropped it to $100. wanted to be paid via PayPal or CashApp. I had PayPal so I did, $100 because it sounded very believable and sincere. Even quotes from the bible. The first Paypal when to Eunice Mugo which was then returned because an error popped up. I should've known at this point to not try again. I was gullable and resent it this time to a Forest Gipson. Was asked to send it via friends and family because they wouldn't be charged the fee and PayPal will basically deny helping you to recover the money. Yep just tried letting PayPal know and it basically got automatically denied. Please beware and do not fall victim like I did. I am now out of $100, changed all my passwords, and learned a very expensive lesson.

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by an anonymous user from: Downtown Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

I just had the same thing happen. Some people just have no shame!

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by an anonymous user from: Downtown Redmond, Redmond, Washington, United States

I was scamed by this Michael j weirdly and they hacked my Facebook account and won't give it back. How can I let Facebook know or get them to help me get it fixed can anyone help me?

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by an anonymous user from: Downtown Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

He is texting me on Twitter this moment, as I am writing this comment. I reported this, as well, to Twitter.

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by an anonymous user from: Mayes, Pryor, Oklahoma, United States

Apparently Twitter didn't heed your report because he is still doing this on Twitter.

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by an anonymous user from: Roseland, New Jersey, United States

Yup I nipped it in the bud after coming out and investigating on Google as it smelled like a scam. got a couple of texts and IG direct messages but deleting them as they come in. response I got back from the person on instagram just didn't sound correct or like the real Mike Wiersky when I watched his video from the lottery commission. Plan to delete any emails I get as well. I just wanted to see how far it would go until they asked for my bank info or any other personal info.

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by an anonymous user from: Downtown Redmond, Redmond, Washington, United States

He's messaging me now asking for my address. Really scary

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