Scam Email From Warren Buffett, gifted $5 MILLION USD
What is wrong with this email, can you tell me?
There are a few things in this scam email from Warren Buffett to pay attention to!
1. It started out with Greetings to you
When Warren Buffett would send me a mail, he would address it to Mrs.Loes Knetsch. As being a billionaire, he would tell his staff to find out all about me.
2. The email address is not right.
Warren Buffett is to contact at berkshire@berkshirehathaway.com
Click here to find all contact data from Mr. Warren Buffett.
3. The article they provide. from latimes.com.
This article is very outdated in the first place, and second, it claims to donate to charitable organizations. Well, I am a very charming woman, but I am far from a charitable organization.
4. He asks me to send him my
your full names……………..
your contact address…………….
your personal telephone number……………
I am registered in the telephone book when he wants to donate 5 million of his money to me, he surely can afford to buy a telephone book.
5. 2 different and strange looking email addresses
The mail was sent from Warren@alpha.ocn.ne.jp and I have to reply to warrenbuffett800@gmail.com

Criminals trick you
Scam Email From Warren Buffett, gifted $5 MILLION USD
Greetings to You
You have been gifted $5 MILLION USD donation fund. Contact us at this email
for your claim: warrenbuffett800@gmail.comI hope this information meet you well as I know you will be curious to know
why/how I selected you to receive a cash sum of $5,000,000,00 USD, our information below is 100% legitimate, please see the link below:http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/08/business/la-fi-mo-warren-buffett-gates-20130708
My wife and I decided to donate the sum of $5,000,000,00 USD to you as part
of our charity project to improve the lot of 10 lucky individuals all over
the world from our $12 Billion Usd I and My Wife Mapped out to help people
before she died. We prayed and searched over the internet for assistance
because i saw your profile on Microsoft email owners list and picked you.Susan my wife and i have decided to make sure this is put on the internet
for the world to see. my wife has cancer and she died at colchester regional
hospital, my wife just didn’t die but she was a great person and I miss her
so much and this is why I have decided to do one thing i promised her forever. 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, Beforeshe died 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 Susan 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 40% of the entire sum to our self for the remaining days because i am sick and am writing you from hospital computer because i dont know when i will die.
To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($5,000,000.00 USD) which
have been donated solely to you, you are to send usyour full names……………..
your contact address…………….
your personal telephone number……………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 country. please you have to do you 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.
I like to re-assure you of the legitimacy of this services as we will not
be involved in any fraudulent act and will never be. use the money wisely,
we only want to feel good by helping people this time of the year, this is
the only thing that makes my wife happy too even now that she is not here
with me anymore, we have too much to give away as I only have few months
left on earth. I will advise as you as the prospective lucky Person to be
calm not to loose this great opportunity which millions of people are trying
to entangled but the chances just couldn’t come for them because a lot of
people are out there to discourage them as they don’t know how it works,
and have never seen such before.Thank you for accepting our offer, we are indeed grateful.
God bless youMr Warren Buffett
You can get these similar emails from:
- Bill Gates
- Microsoft
- Western Union
- FBI
- Some long lost deceased relative. (I wish I had an uncle like that;)
- Nigerian scam emails (list)
- Bank Email Scams. Your bank NEVER asks you for data by sending an email.
- Creditcard fraud. Your credit card company will NOT close your account!
- Paypal email fraud. Paypal will NOT use email to ask for login data!