Advance Fee Fraud — 26 posts

I am a retired banker currently working as a consultant with established funding partners and financial institutions specializing in investment and project financing. A cold funding offer written to investors, borrowers and brokers at once: it names no bank, no partner, no institution, no firm and no figure, is signed with a name and nothing else, and came from a domain that its registrar has suspended.

I'm Dr Brown from the UK. Permit to inform you about to partner with us in supplying raw materials. Eleven days after the first draft, the same persona writes again: three sentences from a different free Gmail account, blind-copied with the To line left empty, under a subject of two letters, naming no company, no material and no product — and asking for one thing: a reply.

I'm Dr. Brown from the UK. I have a discuss with you about business supply of materials to our company for production. Three sentences from a free Gmail address that shares nothing with the name it displays, blind-copied with the To line left empty, naming no company, no material and no product — and asking for one thing: a reply.

A top VIP in one of the African Countries is in dire need of an entrepreneur or fund manager that can confidently receive and manage the sum of US$5.2 Billion. Written as a reply, sent from a Gmail address that misspells its own sender's surname, and offering a nameless fortune to whoever reads a company mailbox, on two conditions: that they own a company, and that the company has a bank account for the money to go into.

My name is Ms. Helen Rudoff, secretary to (Coalfax Holding Ltd London UK) a private investor and a big time financial service provider. A cold loan offer sent under Investing.com's address for a London company that the UK companies register does not list, promising $10 Billion and above in the subject and one billion dollars in the body, and asking for only one thing: your WhatsApp number.

You have been randomly selected to receive a €4,500,000 donation. A Cantonese-language donation fraud signed in the name of a real German research foundation, sent from borrowed mailboxes in Brazil, Ukraine and Indonesia, and routing replies to a misspelled Gmail address.

I am MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. A Chinese-language donation fraud promising USD 100,800,000 through a foundation that does not exist, sent from a German online shop's info mailbox under a subject line that is only Re:.

Please I'm consulting you for my personal investment plan. An advance-fee approach signed in the name of Ukraine's First Lady, sent from a car dealership's mailbox at a UAE internet provider, asking you to reply to a Gmail address.

Warning: do not use this project as a template for your mailing campaign! A fraudster sent us the built-in demo file of a commercial mass-mail program instead of the scam, exposing the machinery behind the campaign.

Your email account has been selected for a donation of 4,800,000.00 Euro. Contact me for more information. Eighteen words, no link, no attachment, and no way to answer except to reply.