Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Peter Jones Foundation Donation Proposal Email Scam

Peter Jones Foundation Donation



From: Peter Jones <info@tanghuantech.com>
Subject: Donation for you!
Mail Context:

Hi,

My name is Peter Jones, a philanthropist and the founder of The Peter Jones Foundation (PJF), one of the largest private foundations in the world, we offer support to children through innovative education initiatives. Our core focus is to encourage enterprise through education, training and building the right skills today so our young people can become the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. I believed strongly in ‘giving while living.’ I had one idea that never changed in my mind — that you should use your wealth to help people and I have decided to give Ј1,000.000.00 GBP (One Million Pounds sterling) to randomly selected individuals worldwide. On receipt of this email, you should count yourself as the lucky individual. Your email address was chosen online while searching at random. Kindly get back to me at your earliest convenience, so I know your email address is valid.

(pjfoundations@gmail.com) Email me.

Visit: http://www.peterjones.com/peter-jones-foundation/ or you can Google me ( Peter Jones).

Regards,

Peter Jones CBE
Peter Jones Foundation (PJF)


Do not be lured if you receive an e-mail/SMS/phone call like this promising reward/fund for providing your personal information or for updating your account details in the bank site. These are all scam mails. Ignore such mails.

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14 comments:

  1. dreams4u2November 1, 2014 at 10:28 AM

    Hello I received an email of this sore today. I am glad to be made aware that is definitely a scam. Thank you and God bless you!

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  2. UnknownNovember 14, 2014 at 1:26 AM

    Hello I too had received this...to bad

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  3. UnknownNovember 15, 2014 at 4:53 AM

    i too got it yesterday

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  4. AnonymousNovember 17, 2014 at 7:58 PM

    I just received this email too. I feel sad getting these because funds are tight right now and it doesn't help seeing these and knowing these are scams.

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  5. AnonymousDecember 2, 2014 at 11:16 AM

    me too, S Stevenz. its like being kicked when youre down

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  6. UnknownJanuary 4, 2015 at 10:26 PM

    Thanks Sagar! This one actually had good grammar and spelling! Haha

    ReplyDelete
  7. DevFebruary 6, 2015 at 6:35 PM

    Thanks for this spam alert.

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  8. UnknownApril 5, 2015 at 5:57 AM

    Crazy fraudsters

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  9. UnknownApril 5, 2015 at 5:58 AM

    Crazy fraudsters

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  10. UnknownApril 12, 2016 at 6:22 AM

    got one here to how do they get your email address anyway its like 2 or 300 scams a day here wish we could stop them some way

    ReplyDelete
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    1. Sagar KumbharApril 12, 2016 at 6:49 AM

      Hi Brenda, in the market there r so many way to send ur message to bulk emails. Only way to let maximum ppl aware of such frauds.

      Delete
  11. MaggieSeptember 15, 2017 at 5:01 AM

    I got one today. In spam, so deleted straight away. Thanks.

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    1. Sagar KumbharSeptember 15, 2017 at 11:32 PM

      Hi Maggie, right action.thanks

      Delete
    2. UnknownMarch 6, 2019 at 6:55 PM

      What if you had already giving them information before finding out about the scam? What is information used for?

      Delete

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