Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
The A. Alfred Taubman Foundation is completely legitimate, but scammers are actively impersonating it to steal your money and personal information. The real foundation is a private family philanthropi...
If you are required to pay money upfront to collect a lottery prize, it is a scam. Real lotteries never require winners to pay fees, taxes, processing costs, or customs duties out of pocket to release...
The "Yvonne Ballmer Page Foundation" is an advance-fee grant scam created by cybercriminals using a combination of fictional names and trusted philanthropic brands to steal personal data and...
There is NO "Elon Musk Mega Millions Jackpot" and the CEO of Tesla is not randomly donating money or a Tesla Model X to people whose email addresses were selected in some so-called spin ball...
Scammers are sending fake B. Raymond Buxton Foundation emails like the one below. Therefore, online users are asked not to respond to them. They should delete the fake emails because Buxton is not sen...
The New York Clearing House email below is a scam. The fake email is being used by scammers to trick potential victims into contacting them. If contacted, the scammers will attempt to trick their pote...
Scammers are sending text and email messages to potential victims claiming Tammy and Cliff Webster, who won 316 million dollars in a Powerball drawing earlier this year are donating $150,000 to 20 ran...
Lottery scammers are using several social media and email scams like the one below to impersonate Pastor George to obtain personal financial information and money from potential victims. Pastor George...
The Facebook lottery scam email is just one of the many being sent by scammers to their potential victims. The scammers' aim is to trick their potential victims into sending them their personal in...
The fake "Mr. Edwin Obasanjo" email below is a scam. Recipients are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by scammers who are attempti...
The fake "Mr Oscar Williams" email below is a scam. Recipients are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by scammers who are attemptin...
The "Google Online Prize Draw 2020" email below is a scam. Therefore, recipients of the fake lottery email are asked not to follow the instructions in it. This is because it is being sent by...
The "Google Anniversary Lottery Winning Notification 2021" email message below is a scam. The fake email message was created by lottery scammers to trick the recipients into sending their pe...
The fake "Martinez Rodriguez" email below is a scam. Recipients are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by scammers who are attempti...
The fake People's Postcode Lottery prize below is a scam. The fake lottery prize, which claims recipients have been selected at random by a computer ballot system, is being sent by lottery scammer...
Pringpro located at pringpro.com that claims investors can make 50% on their investments in 25 days appears to be a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors wit...
The fake "Speed Trust Courier Company Dispatch Ltd" email below is a scam. Recipients are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by sca...
The fake International Trust Credits Plc London email below is an advance-fee scam. Therefore, recipients of the same fake emails are asked not to follow the instructions in it. The scam is an attempt...
Lottery scammers are using several social media and email scams like the one below to impersonate Cristy Davis to obtain personal financial information and money from potential victims. Cristy Davis w...
The fake "Barr. Andrew Smith" email below is a scam. Recipients are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by scammers who are attempti...
Lottery scammers are using several social media and email scams like the one below to impersonate Sheryll Goedert to obtain personal financial information and money from potential victims. Sheryll Goe...
The fake Postcode Lottery email below is a scam. Therefore, recipients are asked not to follow the instructions in it. THe fake email claims the recipients' postcode has been selected at random by...
The fake Fredrik Andersson donation email below is a scam. Therefore, recipients are asked not to follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by online scammers who are attempting to t...
The fake "Steve and Lenka Thomson" Powerball Lottery Donation email below is a scam. The name of the Euromillions winners who won £105 million is being used by scammers in an attempt to...
There is no "Google Online Prize Draw 2020", therefore, recipients of the fake lottery email notification below are asked not to follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent b...
There is no Microsoft/Yahoo lottery or promotion like the one below. Therefore, recipients of fake email notifications like the one below, which claims they are winners in a so-called Microsoft/Yahoo!...
The Qatar Foundation Charity Donations email below is another advanced fee scam being sent by online scammers. Therefore, recipients are asked not to follow the instructions in it, they should just de...
If you have received the "Mr Landolt" email below, which claims you have received a donation of 850,000 dollars, please delete it. This is because the email is a fake and there is no such do...
The fake "TD Bank of America" email below is an advance fee scam. Recipients are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by scammers who...
The Sugar Baby Scam on Instagram and Facebook is where some online scammers, describing themselves as a "sugar daddy", seek out female social media users and trick them into buying them gift...
There is no "Facebook COVID-19 End Of Year Relief Lottery Promotion". Therefore, the fake email below, which claims the recipient is a winner in the same lottery promotion is a scam. Recipie...
The fake "BankUnited Bank USA Account Update" email below is an advance fee scam. Recipients are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent...
I received a letter via fax at the Outpatient Cancer Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. The letter, which is similar to the one below, says sent from "Richard Hauffe, senior partner at Hackman Law ...
The fake "Hackman Law Firm Ontario Canada" email below is a scam. Therefore, recipients are asked not to follow the instructions in it. The fake email which claims there is unclaimed permane...
There is no "Micro Online Email Lottery Promotion" like the one below. Therefore, online users who have received e-mail messages like the one below, which claim they are winners in such a lo...
Scammers on Instagram are impersonating Mrs. Lerynne West to obtain personal financial information from potential victims. Mrs. Lerynne West will never ask you to share your financial information elec...
There is no "Year 2020 Coca-Cola Promotion United Kingdom" lottery. Therefore, recipients of fake Coca-Cola lottery messages like the sample below that are being sent by lottery scammers, wh...
The "Audi Automobiles INTL Promotion" email below is a scam. Therefore, online users, if you have received emails like the one below, which claim you have thousands or millions of dollars in...
Scammers are sending out fake emails like the one below to potential victims, claiming Powerball winner Bill Lawrence is donating thousands or millions of dollars to people around the world. But, this...
There is no "Microsoft Anniversary Promotion Draw" or "Microsoft Promotion" lottery, therefore, recipients of email or text messages claiming they winners in such lottery should no...
There is not "iPhone COVID-19 Lotto," therefore, recipients of messages claiming they are winners in the same lottery are asked not to follow the instructions in them. The fake lottery has b...
The Whatsapp Stokvel scam that ripped off victims last year is now called Whatsapp Gifting Group. Although the name has changed, it is still the same scam where members are expected to pay up to R200 ...
If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent Publishers Clearing House, or claiming to be a PCH employee and asked to send or wire money, send a pre-paid gift card or a Green Dot MoneyPak car...
Consultant.com appears to be used by online scammers. I have seen a lot of email scams like the one below, which ask recipients to contact someone at consultant.com in order to receive a so-called don...
The "2020 COVID-19 Charity Donation" is a scam. Therefore, recipients are asked not to follow the instructions in it. THe fake email is being sent by online scammers who are attempting to tr...
Recipients of the "Bitcoin Online Lottery International Programs" email below are asked to delete it because it is a scam. The fake email is being sent by lottery scammers who are attempting...
The fake "Powerball Casino Online Promotions" below is a scam. Therefore, recipients are asked not to follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by lottery scammers who are ...
There is no "Microsoft Lottery Draws" sweepstake, therefore, recipients of fake email messages like the one below, which claim they are winners in the same so-called lottery, are asked to de...
Publishers Clearing House (PCH) does not ask for bank account or other financial information. There is no processing fee, tax or special handling charge required to win. The Publishers Clearing House ...
The "LinkedIn Our System has Detected Irregular Activity" below is a scam. Therefore, recipients are asked not to follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by cybercriminal...
There is no "Coca-Cola Bottling Company England" lottery. Therefore, recipients of fake Coca-Cola lottery messages like the sample below that are being sent by lottery scammers, which claim ...
There is no "Microsoft Promotional Company" lottery, therefore, recipients of email or text messages claiming they winners in such lottery should not follow the instructions in the same mess...
There is no "2020 Euro Global Mobile Lottery Award Draw". Therefore, recipients of fake Euro Global Mobile lottery promotion messages like the sample below, being sent by lottery scammers, w...
The "Online Global Sweepstakes Lottery Program 2020" email below is a scam. Therefore, recipients are asked not to follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by lottery scam...
The fake Exxon Mobil email below is a scam. Recipients are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by scammers who are attempting to trick their p...
Scammers are sending out fake Jeffrey Epstein emails like the below, claiming the late American billionaire, who recently died in a New York prison, instructed his financial assistance to give million...
The fake "MacKenzie Scott Bezos" donation email below is being sent by online scammers who are attempting to trick their potential victims into sending them their personal information and su...
There is no "Nestle Milo Company England 2020 Draw" lottery. Therefore, recipients of fake Chocolate Nestle Milo Company lottery messages like the sample below that are being sent by lottery...
The "Mrs. Maria Louge" donation is a scam. The fake email is being sent by scammers who are impersonating Mrs. Maria Louge in order to trick their victims into sending them for some so-calle...
There are lottery scammers using several social media and email scams like the one below to impersonate Mr. John Jack Long to obtain personal financial information and money from potential victims. Mr...