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"Patrick and Frances Connolly Foundation Powerball Lottery Donation" Scam

There are unscrupulous people using several social media and email scams like the one below to impersonate Patrick and Frances Connolly to obtain personal financial information from individuals. Patrick and Frances Connolly will never ask you to share your financial information electronically. If you have received the same emails please delete them, or social media messages when you receive them. And, Patrick and Frances Connolly, who won almost £115m in the New Year's Day EuroMillions draw, will never ask you to send money in order to receive a donation from her.

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Remember, once you are asked to send money in order to receive a donation or lottery prize, it is scammers or thieves attempting to trick you into sending them your money.

A "Frances and Patrick Connolly Foundation" Scam" Scam

From: "Miellot Catherine" - Catherine.Miellot@ac-orleans-tours.fr

Date: June 16, 2019 at 12:50:11 PM MST

To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Subject: Hi

Reply-To: patrickfrancesconnolly@gmail.com

MY WIFE AND I WON THE BIGGEST EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY PRIZE OF *****£115,203,600.70 GBP***** AND WE JUST COMMENCED OUR CHARITY DONATION AND WE WILL BE GIVING OUT CASH DONATION OF *****£2,000,000.00 GBP***** EACH TO FIVE (5) LUCKY INDIVIDUALS AND TEN (10) CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS FROM ANY PART OF THE WORLD. TO VERIFY THE GENUINENESS OF THIS EMAIL AND OUR WINNINGS, PLEASE SEE OUR INTERVIEW BY VISITING THE WEB PAGE BELOW;

https://www.newsweek.com/euromillions-lottery-jackpot-northern-ireland-frances-connolly-patrick-1279488

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/751955/euromillions-winners-patrick-franc-s-connolly-warned-begging-letters-lotto

YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS SUBMITTED TO MY WIFE AND I BY THE GOOGLE MANAGEMENT TEAM AND YOU RECEIVED THIS EMAIL BECAUSE WE HAVE LISTED YOU AS ONE OF THE LUCKY MILLIONAIRES AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GET BACK TO US VIA E-MAIL: patrickfrancesconnolly@gmail.com , KINDLY SENDS US THE BELOW DETAILS SO THAT WE CAN DIRECT OUR BANK TO EFFECT VALID BANK TRANSFER IN YOUR NAME TO YOUR OPERATIONAL BANK ACCOUNT IN YOUR COUNTRY.

FULL NAME:

STATE:

COUNTRY:

DOB:

OCCUPATION:

AGE:

BANK NAME:

SEX:

MOBILE/TEL:

IDENTITY:

CONGRATULATIONS & HAPPY CELEBRATIONS IN ADVANCE,

PATRICK & FRANCES CONNOLLY

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