From: Carlos Slim Helu <officecarlos267@gmail.com>
Reply: ofile8289@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:39:57 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Confirm the validity of your email
Greetings Dearest,
My name is Carlos Slim Helu, A philanthropist the CEO and Chairman of the Carlos Slim Helu Charitable Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the world. I believe strongly in giving while living?I had one idea that never left in my mind that you should use your wealth to help the world and I have decided to give out $2,750,000.00 USD to randomly selected individuals worldwide. On receipt of this email, you should count yourself as one of the lucky individuals. Your email was chosen online during random selection of numbers. Kindly get back to me at your earliest convenience, so I know your email address is valid: ofile8289@gmail.com
In case you receive this message in your spam folder it could be due to your internet service provider (ISP) so kindly move to your inbox before replying.
Regards,
Carlos Slim Helu
I received an email very similar to this one, is it really a scam? Thankyou.
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My name is Carlos Slim Helu, A philanthropist the CEO and Chairman of the Carlos Slim Helu Charitable Foundation,i have decided to secretly give {$2,500,000.00} Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United Dollars, 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 with your full address at your earliest convenience, so I know your email address is valid.
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