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

These guys are still at it on Twitter. Yesterday afternoon, I received a DM from Mr. Mike Weirsky claiming that I had been selected as a recipient of a donation from his charity.

We went back and forth for about an hour DMing each other when he asked for my address, phone number and name. I received a text from someone claiming to from the charity from this number 252-285-6732 stating that I would receive an email telling me what to expect.

I received an email supposedly from FedEx telling me that I was going to be receiving a check for $500,000 and that I had to send them $250 to cover the expediting of the check.

I sent a DM to Mr. Weirsky telling him how angry I was that he would try to pull a scam on me and that I was going to report him to the authorities. I reported him to Twitter and I forwarded the email to FedEx's abuse email. I did a reverse look up on the number and it was a cell phone out of Greeneville, NC.

I have also tweeted about his scam being run on Twitter. I just wish there was some way to find these people and for those of us who were affected by their scam to sue them for everything they have.

This guy on Instagram is asking me to purchase a $50 Amazon gift card in order for him to send me $30,000 in cash via FedX. The following is the URL to his Instagram account.

Please advise!

Thanks!

I was contacted via DM on Twitter.

"Hi,My name is Michael J Weirsky,the $273 million mega jackpot winner from New Jersey,I am pleased to congratulate you for being randomly picked among the lucky winners. I will be giving out $50,000 each ,are you ready to claim your winnings now?

Your details has already been transferred to delivery agent, he I’ll contact you shortly,the winnings would be shipped to the specific address you provided trough the agent

AND THEN TH HE HOOK

But Note you’ll be the one handling the delivery fee okay.

Insurance fee 100

Administrative fee100

Couriage 100

All you need to do is to make a payment of $300 for the delivery fee as soon as you come up with the payment you will get your tracking number and your package will be commenced at once.

Here is the details you will make the payment

Name: Linda Lee Shaffer

City: Manassas

State: Virginia

Zipcode:20112

NOTE: Payment must be made Via Money Gram only!!"

And there you have it. Beware!

I actually got a video message from him, his proof that he was real, he did look a little like the original Mike Weirsky but it wasn’t him, still got it all on my Twitter message

Mike Weirsky contacted me through twitter message , there were several Mike Weirsky charity giveaway money twitter accounts that I reported

Here is another scam:

----- Forwarded message -----

From: "Michael Charity Foundation" <farhad204471@islamibankbd.com>

Sent: Sat., 12 Oct. 2019 at 23:32

Subject: I Have Personal Donation For You

Dear Email Owner,

am Michael J Weirsky I recently won $273 million Mega Millions drawing held on Friday, March 1, 2019, I have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $1,500,000.00 to you, being part of my Charitable Organizational Donation Project to financially support ten (10) lucky people around the world. Your email was luckily selected via a Google & social media Sponsored email draws.

You can verify this by visiting the web pages below to see my interview and send your response back to me

...

i believe that this wonderful opportunity came to me from lord because it happen when am helpless in life and i cannot keep it to myself all alone, again your contact was submitted to me by Google Management Team and you received this email because I have shortlisted you as one of the lucky individuals, If you have received this email then you are one of the lucky winner and all you have to do is get back to me through this email (weirsky.charityproject@aol.com) with your particulars so that I can send your details to the pay-out bank.

M.J Weirsky

kindly contact me using this email address weirsky.charityproject@aol.com because I check it more often

This guy contacted me on Twitter, from @Mikeweirsky8 , and after a couple of days of him saying “ HI “ and “ How are you” via DM, I finally asked what he wanted. He told me same thing as others on here, but I had someone else try this a few months earlier, so after a couple of questions to where I could sense he was getting mad, I told him I would pass, and just didn’t believe it was real.

The next day, today Oct. 23 2019, I looked it up and found this article.

So I immediately posted it on Twitter along with the username, hoping I save at least one person from falling for it.

Well the guy saw it, and now before he blocked me, wrote some threatening messages to me. Basically saying he would kill me. Now I’m curious if he threatened others. Obviously this person is just an online bully & scammer.

I don’t know how many people have fallen for this scam, but I hate those who prey on innocent people and hope this guy is put out of business for good.

Thank You to everyone else who has taken time to report this. I have been contacted by a few different scammers on twitter over last few months but never thought how many people experience them too. So now I will report any scam whenever attempted on me or anyone I know in the future. Luckily my friend works for FTC, so I urge everyone to report any scam to them so at least they have record of its and investigate them.

Wish everyone reading this the Best

Chris

Received this donation scam

---------- Forwarded message ---------

From: M.J Weirsky <akiramo2@purple.plala.or.jp>

Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 11:43 AM

Subject: I Have Private Donation For You

Dear Email Owner,

am Michael J Weirsky I recently won $273 million Mega Millions drawing held on Friday, March 1, 2019, I have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $1,500,000.00 to you, being part of my Charitable Organizational Donation Project to financially support ten (10) lucky people around the world. Your email was luckily selected via a Google & social media Sponsored email draws.

You can verify this by visiting the web pages below to see my interview and send your response back to me

i believe that this wonderful opportunity came to me from lord because it happen when am helpless in life and i cannot keep it to myself all alone, again your contact was submitted to me by Google Management Team and you received this email because I have shortlisted you as one of the lucky individuals, If you have received this email then you are one of the lucky winner and all you have to do is get back to me through this email (weirsky.charityproject@aol.com) with your particulars so that I can send your details to the pay-out bank.

M.J Weirsky

kindly contact me using this email address weirsky.charityproject@aol.com because I check it more often

Yes, me Too! This Mr. Mike guy is shameless, he's on Ellen Degeneres Instagram account, taking advantage of people who are in desperate need of help! I felt so stupid, but he didn't get any money from me! When denied, he blocked me. But I reported to him! There's a special place in Hell for people who use people who are down & needy.

Here is another scam:

----- Forwarded Message -----

From: Janet Watt <janetwat9@gmail.com>

Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 10:55:35 AM CDT

Subject: Re: Michael J Weirsky

Hi it me Janet Watt the agent in charge of your winnings of $30,000 from Mr Michael J Weirsky

So ma I’m here to deliver the winnings to your specific address:

Name:

Address:

City: pineville

State: Louisiana

Zip code: 71360

All you need to do is to make a payment of $400 for the delivery fee as soon as you come up with the payment you will get your tracking number and your package will be commenced at once, Note that’s the details you will make payment into below:

Name: Linda Lee Shaffer

City- Manassas

State- Va.

Zipcode- 20112

NOTE: Payment must be made Via Walmart2Walmart

Here is another scam:

-----Original Message-----

From: weirsky.charityproject <weirsky.charityproject@aol.com>

Sent: Wed, Oct 2, 2019 10:32 pm

Subject: Charity Project

Greetings

I saw an email about a charity project after winning Mega Millions lottery.

Please tell me more about how you came up to the decision to donate part of your winnings.

Thank you

Regards

Vincent

Here is anotehr scam:

"From: Dave Eliot <drdaveeliot233@gmail.com>

Date: October 1, 2019 at 8:50:43 AM CDT

Subject: *******CASH DELIVERY*******

Hi it me dave eliot the agent in charge of your winnings of $50,000 from Mr Michael J Weirsky

So ma’am I’m here to deliver the winnings to your specific address:

Name:

Address:

City: New Orleans

State: Louisiana

Zip code: 70158

Insurance fee 100

Administrative fee150

Couriage 150

All you need to do is to make a payment of $400 for the delivery fee as soon as you come up with the payment you will get your tracking number and your package will be commenced at once

Here is the details you will make the payment

Name: Roslynne Cooper Smith

City: Birmingham

State: Alabama

Zip code: 35242

NOTE: Payment must be made Via Walmart2Walmart only!!"

I had the same thing happen just now on Twitter. So called "Mr Mike" contacted me and said I was a lucky recipient all I had to do was buy an Amazon gift card and give home the numbee and he would FedEx 30,000 to me.

The so-called Fedex driver just texted me 1 minute ago from this number: 1 (562) 267-9506. This is really disturbing!

I was scared mike told me his delivery man would contact me to tell me what to do. Well I didn’t hear from him and I texted mike and told him so he gave me an email address and told me to contact him Drdaveeilot233@gmail.com. Well, I did and I was told told I had to send $510 for fees, well I didn’t think this was real and I asked if he won all this money why do I have to send you money; of course fees etc.

so I said I only had $50, so he said send him the 50 on an eBay card then send $150 the next day. So then he only wanted $200. To make a long story short I just keep asking why I had to send money.

Well as of today it’s been three days since he has asked for anything. This was all done on instagram. Good luck

I was the same, only on Instagram. Was asked for my name, which is in my profile anyway, but also address and telephone number. The person impersonating Mr. Weirsky told me that "he" liked my profile and was going to send me $30,000 by FedEx.

When I found this page, I immediately blocked whoever it was so they couldn't see my profile anymore. So far, I haven't been contacted any further, or asked for any additional information. Thanks so much for spreading the word about this!

"You have a Charity donation of $850,000.00 from Mike Weirsky. For more information contact them now by e-mail: coxnet33@yandex.com

Important Notice: keep in mind that you must respond to this email: coxnet33@yandex.com"

Received this scam.

Just happened to me on Twitter seems like a stupid way to get money.

Thanks. This just happened to me too.

So far they're just asking for my full name, home address, email and phone number.

I didn't divulge anything. I thought 'at least they didn't come right out and ask for money or gift cards first'. But still. Anything that is too good to be true, y'know? First time that's happened to me. Weird.

Happened on Twitter, 73,000 dollars for 250.00 cash. Losers who scam good people.

Yes, I got a message from this person telling me the story and I messaged him back and said listen man, go feed the hungry children in Nigeria .. he hasn’t ever replied back 😂

I'm writing a comment here in hopes that Google searches will direct to this page if anyone searches for Michael J. Weirsky scams on twitter or an equivilant. If a person from an account claiming to be Michael J. Weirsky messages you about winning money or if the guy claims you've randomly won a prize, don't buy it. The real guy isn't giving out free cash.

I played along out of curiosity and in hopes of making the scammer realize what horrible thing they are doing to others by sharing a sad story. After following basic instructions that didn't endanger me or cost me any money, another guy pretended to be a FedEx employee and asked me for 2 Amazon gift cards in order to "activate" the winnings. How oblivious do people think others are online nowadays? Anyways, I shot that down quickly then I politely asked the impersonator on twitter for a video of himself telling me hello by my name so I'd be comfortable working with them, but lo and behold he blocked me once he knew I'm not an easy mark as he first thought.

Anyways, just to be clear: Michael J. Weirsky ISN'T giving people money on Twitter or other social media. Obviously, FedEx employees don't ask for gift cards to cover any fees. Plus if someone's offering you $50K or so, they'd be willing to pay any fees themselves don't you think? So to wrap things up, Michael J Weirsky isn't messaging you my friend. I'm sorry a scammer tricked you for even .01 seconds into believing something great has happened.

I called this guy that is sending me the information at 1-330-642-6777; sounded like he is from Nigeria. I told him I reported him to the FBI and he tried to say he was only working for this Michael J. Weirsky. I also reported it to Instagram.

This dude is all over instagram too. Was sceptical too. Sorta played along when he offered 30,000 and said how generous that was and what I would put the money towards.

He asked for name address and contact details. Made no interest in what use I would put the money to even though I offered to let him know. Then mentioned about the amazon gift card. I played along some more and asked him to send a vid of himself now. He sent vids of other 'winners' thanking him for the prize instead (I assume these might be workers?) when I asked again for a vid of himself he said he didn't like people who were untrusting.

I said if he knew anything about the internet and the scamming world I was well within reason to be sceptical! And if he had time to send vids and messages of other people he had time to video himself for 10 seconds. No reply!

Hi, I almost fell for it too,these scammers are using his twitter profile where it says that he is giving $20,000.00 to his first 1000 followers, then you get a DM from him saying you were randomly selected and are you ready to receive your money. I answered yeah.

Then he asks you name, address, and e-mail, then another DM that says Fed Ex will contact you by email to set up delivery.

I don't have a cell phone so can't receive text messages. Then I got this photo shot supposedly from Fed-Ex telling me to select one of the three options. Then was supposed to go and purchase Amazon gift cards and send them a pic of the card# on back of card and the receipt, then they would send me tracking # and when I could expect delivery.

Please Be Careful

The scammers are using a fake Michael J Weirsky Twitter account in an attempt to trick potential victims.

If you know about these scammers, then why is it they are still doing it?

Hi, I just received the Mike Wiersky donation offer via Twitter saying he would give money to his first 10 followers. He then D.M me asking for my email and home address, following this I received 12 emails from fed ex and finally one asking for the $300 delivery fee.

I D.M'd Mike Wiersky telling him I don't have $300, and no surprise he didn't reply.

I nearly fell for this scam, be careful out there.