This one isn't new. It's been going around for a long time but people are still being sucked in by it. Please share this post with everyone you know so the sleaze behind it cannot get their hooks into anymore victims. To avoid educating these scum bag crooks, I am not going to tell you what the signs of a scam are. I am sure you can figure it out on your own.
-----------------------Email Scam Message----------------------------
Sender: MR BILL GATES <admin@education.be> <-- bull shit email address
Greetings
You have been gifted $5 MILLION USD From Mr Bill Gates. Contact me at this email for your claim:
mrgates29@gmail.com(
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I hope this information meet you well as I know you will be curious to know why/how I selected you to receive a sum of $5,000,000,00 USD, our information below is 100% legitimate,
LMAO such bull shit please see the link below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation(
← worthless information)
That link means nothing
I BILL GATES
snowball's chance in hell of that ever being true and my wife decided to donate the sum of $5,000,000,00 USD to you as part of our charity project to improve the 10 lucky individuals all over the world from our $65 Billion Usd I and My Wife Mapped out to help people. We prayed and searched over the internet for assistance and i saw your profile on Microsoft email owners list and picked you. Melinda my wife and i have decided to make sure this is put on the internet for the world to see. as you could see from the webpage above,am not getting any younger and you can imagine having no much time to live. although am a Billionaire investor and we have helped some charity organizations from our Fund.
You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate family members, Before we die we decided to donate the remaining of our Billions to other individuals around the world in need, the local fire department, the red cross, Haiti, hospitals in truro where Melinda underwent her cancer treatment, and some other organizations in Asia and Europe that fight cancer, alzheimer's and diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with our payout bank of this charity donation. we have kept just 30% of the entire sum to our self for the remaining days because i am no longer strong am sick and am writing you from hospital computer.and me and my wife will be traveling to Germany for Treatment.
To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($5,000,000,00 USD) which have been donated solely to you, you are to send me
your full names.................
your contact address.........
country :...............
your personal telephone number...............
SEND YOUR ABOVE DETAILS TO mrgates29@gmail.com
so that i can forward your payment information to you immediately. I am hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your City. please you have to do your part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help as many you can help once you have this money in your personal account because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.
Thank you for accepting our offer, we are indeed grateful You Can Google my name for more information: Mr Bill Gates or Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Remain Blessed
Regards
Mr Bill Gates
Who refers to themselves in the third party? A scammer does I'm sure Bill Gates is a lot more intelligent than the author of this bull shit. The grammar and spelling is indicative of a scammer. Highly educated people do not talk like this nor do they type the way the scammer has typed this email. So many clues here that out the scammer.
Do yourself a favor. Report this shit to the FBI and www.FBI.gov.
If you are a victim of a scam please save all proof of the crime against you, (email and text messages, photos, mailing information they give you, bank info they add to your credit card, etc) to be forwarded to your local FBI office. They will send your credit card company/ bank a warrant for the transgressing information for follow up and arrest.