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From: "Frances & Patrick Connolly" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 02:43:16 +0100
Subject: Congratulations!!! We are donating 1,570,000.00 USD to you.
Dear Beloved,
My family is pleased to receive your response. We are Frances &
Patrick Connolly, who live in Moira, we recently won this lottery and
as our post COVID_ 19 support, we have decided to make out donations
to 50 lucky individuals, and organization and, we are glad to announce
to you, on behalf of Frances & Patrick Connolly Family, we are
donating 1,570,000.00 USD to you.
We may not know you, but we believe you were chosen by Almighty God to
receive our donation, we believe that good things happen to those who
wait and also believe in God. Although we are meeting each other for
the first time and through this medium, we have faith and believe that
God has directed us to you. We searched over the internet and some
social media databases, registered email addresses provided by
Microsoft email listing, from which we were led to pick 50 recipients
randomly, from each continent. Our assurance to you is that you stand
no risk as this is our good will money to you and your families.
Please you can read more about us and our donation here(
<Link to BBC news article> )
We decided to donate to people who can help others with our donation,
and put a smile on the face of the needy. Our donation of 1,570,000.00
USD may not be much to you considering the amount we won but we
believe it will go a long way to improving your standard of living and
that of many others around your locality.
We would like you to write back to us here (
[email protected] ), so we can commence the transfer
process and all legal documents with our attorney. Our entire
household will be glad to have you as our guest after you must have
this donation officially, do this on time so you can contact the
payout bank for further directives to receive a donation.
We will hope 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. May Almighty God bless your heart
to be a blessing to your family and your society as soon as our
donation gets to you.
Sincerely,
Frances & Patrick Connolly.
[email protected]