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Donation Scams - Another Advanced Fee Scam

Donation Scams - Another Advanced Fee Scam

Online users, please be on the lookout for fake donation emails like the one below, which claim the recipients have received an donation worth thousands of dollars. The fake emails are advanced fee scams are being sent by online scammers to their potential victims. 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.

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A Donation Scam Sent by Online Scammers

From: <krby.dusek@centrum.cz>

Date: Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 6:15 PM

Subject:

I am Mrs.Hannah ROMANOV, my husband deposited 7,800.000 pounds with a Bank when he was alive. I'm suffering esophagea cancer,my last wish to see this money distributed to charity organizations anywhere in the World.Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness,.Please,I beg you in the name of God to help me,Stand-in as my beneficiary.you can email to my personal hannahov111@gmail.com

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Jul 1, 2019 at 1:28 AM by
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"From: MRS DORIS RED
Date: June 29, 2019 at 7:11:46 AM MST
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: I donate this us$10 million to you for charity work
Reply-To: mrsdorisred2016-hotmail.com

Dear Friend,

Greetings in the name of God,Please let this not sound strange to you for my only surviving lawyer who would have done this died early this year.

I am Mrs Doris Red from London,I am 58 years old,i am suffering from a long time cancer of the lungs which also affected my brain.From all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that, according to my doctors they have advised me that i may not live for the next two months,this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage.

I was brought up from a motherless babies home was married to my late husband for twenty years without a child,my husband! died in a fatal motor accident Before his death we were true believers.Since his death I decided not to re-marry,I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of 10million dollars with a Bank.

Presently, this money is still with the bank and the management just wrote me to come forward and claim my money because they have kept it for so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they get it confiscated.

Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital here in Switzerland where I have been undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs. My doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live.It is my last wish to see that this money is invested to any organization of your choice and distributed each year among the charity organization,the poor and motherless babies home.

I want you as God fearing person, to also use this money to fund church,mosque, orphanages and widows,I took this decision, before i rest in peace because my time will soon be up.As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Bank.I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the new beneficiary of my fund.Provide your information so that my lawyer will it to my bank account officer and to enable me issue you a letter of
authorization.

FULL NAMES:
S*X:
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS:
COUNTRY:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
PHONE NO#
FAX NO#
OCCUPATION:

PLEASE contact me with the above stated information via my private email address mrsdorisred2015-gmail.com HOPING TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON, AND ASSURE ME THAT YOU WILL ACT ACCORDINGLY AS I STATED! HEREIN .

WAITING FOR YOUR REPLY.

YOURS IN CHRIST,
MRS. DORIS RED"

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Jun 23, 2019 at 4:46 AM by
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"From: From Mrs. Susan Shabangu
Date: Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 9:02 PM
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT REPLY
To:

From Mrs. Susan Shabangu
Minister of Social Development,
Republic Of South Africa
Email: shabangu0303-gmail.com

Good Day,

First, let me start by introducing myself My name is Mrs. Susan
Shabangu, I am visually impaired Widow, a mother of three children and
former Deputy Minister for Safety and Security of the Republic of
South Africa under the auspices of the former President of South
Africa, Mr.Jacob Zuma, and was formerly elected as Minister of Women
in the Presidency 03 June 2014 under the auspices of the new President
of South Africa, Mr.Cyril Ramaphosa and now presently the Minister of
Social Development from 2018-02-27. After due deliberation with my
children, I decided to contact you for your a*s instance in standing
as a beneficiary to the sum of US$30.5M (Thirty Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars Only).You can view my profile at my
(//http://www.dsd.gov.za/) and read about me.

THE PROPOSAL, after my swearing in ceremony making me the former
Minister of Safety and Security, my husband Mr. Ndebele Shabangu died
while he was on an official trip to Trinidad and Tobago. After his
death, I discovered that he had some funds in a dollar account which
amounted to the sum of US$30.5Million with a security and finance
institution in South Africa of which I will divulge information to you
when I get your full consent and support to go for a change of
beneficiary and subsequent transfer of the funds into your comfortable
and conducive account of your choice. This fund emanated as a result
of an over-invoiced contract which he executed with the Government of
South Africa. Though I assisted him in getting this contract but I
never knew that it was over-invoiced by him. I am afraid that the
government of South Africa might start to investigate on contracts
awarded from 1990 to date.

If they discover this money in his security company account, they will
confiscate it and seize his assets here in South Africa and this will
definitely affect my political career in, government. I want your
assistance either by coming down to South Africa in person or provide
your complete bank details information, so that these funds could be
wired directly into your overseas account without any hitch. I am
offering you 20% of the principal sum which amounts to US$6,100.000.00
(Six million One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) and 5%
will be for any expenses that both of us may Insure in this
transaction. And another 5% will go for Motherless babes home.
However, you have to assure me and also be ready to go into agreement
with me that you will not elope with my fund. If you agree to my
terms, kindly as a matter of urgency send me an email.

Also, I can give you my banker phone number so that you can contact
him and discuss with him directly as he already promised to use his
position to move this fund out of South Africa, it’s okay and fine by
me. Please I do not need to remind you of the need for absolute
Confidentiality of this transaction.

My regards to your family,
Mrs. Susan Shabangu.
Email: shabangu0303-gmail.com"

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Jun 17, 2019 at 3:46 PM by
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"From: Thomas Mills
Date: Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 12:09 AM
Subject: From Thomas Mills...

From: Mr. Thomas Mills
Tel: 442033897179
Union Bancaire Privйe; (UBP SA)
Jersey Channel Islands,
PRIVATE AND URGENT.

I am Mr. Thomas Mills, and I am contacting you on business transfer of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION:

I am an account manager with UBP Bank here in Jersey Channel Islands, in charge of all nonresident accounts. I have been in this capacity working with the bank for the last 15 years and I joined this institution in 1983 as a junior clerk and worked my way up through the ranks. On assumption of duty in November 2002 I discovered a dormant account in my branch that was opened in 1985 in the name of Karl Henning and I have kept close tab on this very account for the last 15 years and it has remained dormant even from the day the first deposit of (US$37, 000,000,00)Thirty Seven Million United States dollars was made to this moment, we have been investigating this account for the past 15 years and discovered that Karl Henning was used as Pseudonym Name to open the account while the original owner of the funds in question was the late president of Philippines Ferdinand Marcos. The next of kin part was left blank hence it was impossible for them to have claimed the fund! s these past years or they have fo

1.Beneficiary name and address
2.Identification documents
3.Direct Telephone and Private Email Address.

These requirements will enable me make some internal re-adjustments and file your name in all the forms and other vital documents as next of kin to the Pseudonym Name Karl Henning which before now was left blank when the account was opened many years ago. Upon your reply, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and advice you the detailed procedure to follow and achieve this once in a life time opportunity without any hitch. I must assure you that if you are serious and follow my lead religiously, these funds will be processed and released to you within 14-working-day period. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your Immediate Reply.

Regards,
Thomas Mills"

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Jun 17, 2019 at 3:45 PM by
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"From: yogeshkumar baleshwar
Date: Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 7:31 PM
Subject:

FROM Elizabeth Johnson

Dearest,
With Due Respect And Humanity, I was compelled to write to you under a humanitarian ground.

My name is Elizabeth Johnson . I was born in Quebec Canada, I am married to Bishop Daniel Johnson, Bishop of st, peter's Anglican church London.We were married for 40 years without a child. so my husband died after a Cardiac Arteries Operation. And Recently, My Doctor told me that I would not last for the next six months due to my cancer problem (cancer of the lever and stroke). Before my husband died last year there is this sum of $3.8 Million Dollars that he deposited with the bank here in London.
Presently this money is still in the Vault of the Bank.Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to any good God fearing brother or sister that will utilize this fund the way I am going to instruct here.

I want somebody that will use this fund according to the desire of my late.husband to help Underprivileged people, orphanages,widows and propagating the word of God. I took this decision because I don¢t have any child that will inherit this fund, And I don¢t want in away where this money will be used in an Ungodly way. This is why I am taking this decision to hand you over this Fund.
I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going.I want you to always remember me in your daily prayers because of my up coming Cancer Surgery.
Write back as soon as possible any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another person for this same purpose, Hoping to read from you asap.
God bless you as you listing to the voice of reasoning,
May God met you at any point of your needs.

Your Sister In Christ,
Sister Elizabeth johnson
N/B you are advice to contact me through this private email address:(elizabethjohnson-iname.com)"

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Jun 17, 2019 at 3:19 PM by
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"Da: Mrs Mariam Thomsen
Data: 16 giugno 2019 00:56:33 CEST
A: Undisclosed recipients:;
Oggetto: RE: HELLO CAN I TRUST YOU !!!!!
Rispondi a:

Beloved Greetings!!!

How Are You Doing?

I Am Mrs Mariam Thomsen From Belgium A Widow To Late Gail T. Fletcher i Decided To Maintain My Maiden Names After My Husband Died. I Am 55 Years Old And I Am Suffering From Long Time Cancer Of The White Blood Cell/bone Marrow (leukemia) And From All Indication My Conditions Is Really Deteriorating And It Is Quite Obvious That I Would Not Live More Than Few More Months, To Say 2 Months But By Grace Maybe More.

According To My Doctors, This Is Because The Cancer Stage Has Gotten To A Very Bad. My Late Husband Died Last Five Years,and During The Period Of Our Marriage We Couldn't Produce Any Child. My Late Husband Was Very Wealthy And After His Death, I Inherited All His Business And Wealth And Since He Had No One Else In The World But Me, In Fact, We Both Had Only Us In This World. The Doctors Had Advised Me That I May Not Live For More Than 2 Months, So I Have Decided To Divide The Part Of This Wealth, To Contribute To The Development Of Churches, Schools, Orphanage Homes And To Helping The Less Privileged Low Life People In Africa, America, Asia,and Europe.

It May Come As A Surprise How I Got Your Email And Started Sharing My Stories With You As A Total Stranger. Yes! I Have Less Than A Year From All Approximation To Stay In This World So I Had Email List Sent To Me And I Had To Write You After So Meditations. I Am Willing To Donate The Sum Of $22.6M U.S.D To Carry Out The Projects I Mentioned Above.

Please I Want You To Note That The said amount Is Lying In A Company, Insured And Immediately I Receive A Reply From You, I Shall Furnish You With More Details And Procedures On How To Get This Started And Done And Also In Addition, I Will Forward You All The Information You Will Need To Getting The Fund Released From The Company And To Be Transferred To You.

I Honestly Pray That This Money When Transferred To You Will Be Used For The Said Purpose As It Is The Wish Of A Dying Woman And Should Be Honored.


I Wait Patiently To Reading Your Reply.

Email : (mariamthomsen-aol.com)

Thanks And Remain Blessed.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs Mariam Thomsen"

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Jun 17, 2019 at 2:46 PM by
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"From: Greg
To: Recipients
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2019, 05:03:05 PM PDT
Subject: YOUR ATTENTION BRETHREN IN-CHRIST,

Good Day, My name is Greg M. Berman, I am 59 years old widower and was diagnosed with cancer about two years ago. Following my ill health, I have just been informed by my doctor that I only have few months to live due to cancer illness and I am about to end the race like this without a child.

I have decided to will/donate the sum of US$8,000,000 to you for the good work of the lord, children in need, the poor and to help the homeless. Respond with this Ref: SOULWINNING2019 so I will know you got this. God bless you,"

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