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Did you receive an email from a "Donald Moore" who says to contact Mr Eric Moore and "Due to your effort, sincerity, courage trustworthiness you showed at the course of the transaction.I want to compensate you and show my gratitude to you with the sum of $750,000.00 Thousand United State Of America Dollars" And Mr Donald Moore is too busy to bother even talking with you about the $750,000 he wants to simply give you, that he's handed it off to some assistant. I guess Mr. Moore must be worth billions if nearly a million dollars means that little to him. Yeah, right, that's why you've never heard of him,.... he's a scammer!
Certainly the scammer will try to steal your identity and get you to send him money, but the text of the scam is so odd, it's hard to imagine anyone falling for it. If this email out-of-the-blue from an unknown foreigner offering to pay you absurd amounts of money for almost no work doesn't strike you as a scam, then you really need to read through a number of the scams on this website and familiarize yourself with their approach.
Donald Moore and Mr Eric Moore (not their real names, obviously, and probably the same person) hopes to con you into sending money for various "fees" to free the fortune. If you would like a step by step explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!
Notice (highlighted below) some of the other obvious signs that this is a scam are poor spelling , use of free Yahoo/Hotmail/etc email accounts, proposals that make no sense, etc.:
Dear Friend,
How are you today?
Hope all is well with you and your family? I hope this mail meets you in a perfect condition. I am using this opportunity to thank you for your great effort to our unfinished transfer of your winning check to you as a winner.
due to one reason or the other best known to you.But I want to inform you that I have successfully cleared the check to someone else account who was capable of assisting me in this great venture.
Due to your effort, sincerity, courage trustworthiness you showed at the course of the transaction.I want to compensate you and show my gratitude to you with the sum of $750,000.00 Thousand United State Of America Dollars I have authorized Mr Eric Moore where I deposited my money to issue you international certified bank draft cashable at your bank.
My dear friend I will like you to contact the finance house or Transfer the funds into your Nominated Bank Account.
The name and contact address of the Person with your bank draft is as follows.
FINANCE HOUSE HEAD OFFICE
Address: Floor 10 Nal Tower Building,
Victoria Island. (West Africa)
CONTACT AGENT: Mr Eric Moore
Email: ericmoore_financehouse02@yahoo.se
phone number:+234-808-347-0926.
Contact Mr Eric Moore At the moment, I?m very busy here because of the investment projects which myself and my new partner are having athand In London.
Finally remember that I have forwarded instruction to the Mr Eric Moore on your behalf to send the bank draft check of Seven hundren and fifty thousand United State Of America Dollars to you as soon as you contact him without delay .
Please I will like you to accept this token with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart.
Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hope to hear from you soon.
Mr.Donald Moore.
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