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Have you received an email that appears to be from ANYTHING@yahoo.com, telling you waiting for you since to contact me for your Cash Fund of $12 Million Dollars; and respond immediately to collect "your money"? It is a scam. Find out about the scam here and report it!
Typically, clues to the scam are that they claim you are "owed money" from an unknown person, company or source, and they will send you the money on an ATM card, if you contact them and pay shipping, handling or other fees. Also notice that the "lawyer" or official is writing to you from a free email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.); in fact, they typically use more than one different free email account.
The fact that you received this notice via an email should catch your attention. How would they get your email address? Did they even address you by name? And don't be fooled if the email you received isn't absolutely identical to the example below. The scammers change the names and details, but it is still a scam!
Eventually, they will tell you you must pay some money to someone via Western Union MoneyGram. And once you do that; kiss your money goodbye; as that method of money transfer is irretrievable and untraceable. Which exactly why scammers use it!
Below is the example of the fake email scam (the email is the scam, not any persons or companies named in the email) claiming to be from the "ANYTHING@yahoo.com".
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If you would like a step by step explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:06:18 +0000
To: remon007usa@hotmail.com
From: fileo782@yahoo.com
Subject: Invitation: GOOD DAY !!! RELEASING OF YOUR ATM VISA CARD.
JAN
23
"GOOD DAY !!! RELEASING OF YOUR ATM VISA CARD."When
Thursday, 23 January 2014
04:00 AM to 05:00 AM
(GMT) Greenwich Mean Time - Dublin / Edinburgh / Lisbon / LondonMessage
GOOD DAY !!! RELEASING OF YOUR ATM VISA CARD. I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Cash Fund of $12 Million Dollars but I did not hear from you since then, therefore because of the impossibility of your fund transfer through Western Union and Money Gram Office, I have credited your total sum of $12 Million into an ATM VISA CARD and I went and registered the ATM CARD with DHL COURIER COMPANY for safety purpose meanwhile you are advice to contact the DH LCOURIER COMPANY with your delivery address. Note: I have paid for the shipping fee except their security keeping charge of $99. which I wanted to pay them but they said no because they don't know when you will contact them in case of demur-rage. So you are to pay the security keeping charge of $99.usd as soon as you contact them. The following is the Contact Information of the FedEx Express Customer Service Director Mr. Robert Williams , Email Address online: (dhlcouriercompany15@yahoo.com) Tel:+229 99 20 44 22 Contact them today and also send them the security official keeping charge to avoid increase of their fees and let me know once you receive your ATM card. Please I advice you to reconfirm your delivery address and forward to the FedEx Express for immediate delivery: so that they will deliver your ATM Card to your home address immediately. (1) Your full name.................... (2) Your delivery address.............. (3) Your direct phone number.............. Like I said earlier I have paid for the shipping fee except their security keeping fee of $99. USD only you pay this as soon as you contact them and that's only fee you will pay them. Here is the DHL COURIER COMPANY Contact Email to avoid wrong contact: (fileo782@yahoo.com) I wish you good luck. Regards MR.MORRIS KENInvitees
remickbrett@yahoo.com
remiller29@yahoo.com
remington.david@gmail.com
remmiasedison@gmail.com
remodelingdrywall@hotmail.com
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