Scam Tip Report #10248 - Charity scam with a donation of $2 million for me to donate out
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  | Anonymous Bonita Springs, FL, United States 2013-06-06 23:11:51 Charity scam |  Charity scam with a donation of $2 million for me to donate out
In this email they continued on about the winnings and donations along with attaching two photos of Allen and Violet. The email said: Good Day To You Complement of the season from the Large Family to you, this is to acknowledge your message to us today and this is 100% legitimate visit this web-page: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/11/04/ns-allen-violet-large-lottery-winning.html, my wife and I have decided to donate the sum of $2,000,000.00 USD to you as part of our charity project to improve the lives of lot many individuals in your local area from our $11.3 million Jackpot Lottery winning funds. We prayed and searched over the Internet for someone to donate this money to in your country and we saw your profile on Google list of email owners and we picked you. Violet my wife has cancer and as you could see from the web-page i am not getting any younger and you can imagine having no kids at this age. although we won this lottery funds July 2010 and we have helped some charity organizations, family members and friends from our winnings. Because my wife\'s illness the doctor informed us that she might not live long to see the end of the year and she wishes to do good things before she finally depart this sinful world. we would like you to invest this money in a lucrative business to create more job opportunity to help jobless and needy people in your locality as we have already donated money to the local fire department, the red cross, Haiti, hospitals in Truro where Violet underwent her cancer treatment, and some other organizations in Asia and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer\'s and diabetes. we just kept just 2% of the entire lottery sum to our self for the raining days and which i am still spending on my wife\'s treatments bills... i have attached along with this email two pictures of my me and my wife and a photo of my wife in hospital bed. To facilitate the disbursement process of the funds ($2,000,000.00 USD) which have been donated solely to you, You are to send us your full names for payment and contact address (we asked for this brief information just to know who we are donating this money to and because of the Identity thief going around the internet which i have been a victim we do not want to ask you for your ID as we do not want to leave an impression in your mind that we want to steal your identity). we are hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your country. we will employ you to do what you can to alleviate the level of poverty in your region and also try to enhance the standard of living of as many people as you can because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place. We would like you to re-assure us that you will follow our instructions and help my wife fulfill her dream before we would provide you with information on how you will receive this funds, and if you feel you cannot handle this project you should inform us so we can quickly look for another individual to donate the money to. If you have any question please don\'t fail to ask. We anticipate to read from you soon. God bless you, Allen and Violet Large. 228-220-4778 After doing some further research I am to assume that it is and was a scam. I find it to be sad and pathetic that someone would do this using two innocent peoples\' names. Hopefully they are caught before anyone loses money to them. | |||||
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