419 scam: Warren Buffett <link@fx-max7.net> Greetings Donation Recipient

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- givepledge02@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Warren Buffett <link@fx-max7.net>
Reply-To: givepledge02@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:10:56 +0100
Subject: Greetings Donation Recipient

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Warren Buffett Foundation
Kiewit Plaza
Omaha,Nebraska
United States

Greetings Donation Recipient,

This is from Warren Edward Buffett, a notable philanthropist, having
pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes,
primarily via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I founded the giving
pledge in 2006 with Bill Gates, whereby billionaires pledge to give away
at least half of their fortunes.

On receipt of this email, you should count yourself as one of lucky
individual, whose email address were among those that was chosen online
while searching at random to receive the sum of ($4.8m)In order to know
more about this Giving Pledge, please view the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge

Kindly contact the Giving Pledge department via email below with your
full name for your claim:

Secretary Debbie Bosanek
Legal Representative Buffet foundation
Email: givepledge02@gmail.com

Please you have to do your part to help other people once you have the
money in your personal account because that is the only objective of
donating this funds to you.

Signed
Warren Edward Buffett
Business magnate,
Investor and philanthropist.

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