Online users are asked to be aware of "Carlos Slim Helu Charitable Foundation" donation scams. The name of the Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor, and philanthropist, is being used by scammers in an attempt to trick potential victims into sending money and personal information. The scammers claim their potential victims were randomly selected to receive donations from the business magnate as part of his charity project. But, Carlos Slim Helu is not randomly donating money to people around the world.
A Sample of the "Carlos Slim Helu Charitable Foundation" Donation Scam
From: "Slim" ''www''@clear.ocn.ne.jp
Date: April 10, 2018 at 11:17:12 AM EDT
Subject: Your Email Has Won $2.500,000 usd
Reply-To: carfoundation@writeme.com
GREETINGS,
My name is Carlos Slim Helu, A philanthropist the CEO and Chairman of the Carlos Slim Helu Foundation Charitable Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the world. I believe 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 secretly give ($2.500,000 usd) Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United states 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. http://www.carlosslim.com/biografia_ing.html open my web page and read more about me or you can google my name ( Carlos Slim Helu ) contact my charity organisation committe chairman in Kenya which is the only Organisation i have in Africa.
Name... Mr.Henrique Marquez
Email: carfoundation@writeme.com
Forward him this following details.
FULL NAME
ADDRESS
COUNTRY
PHONE
NUMBER.
Please make sure you contact him for further instruction about your winning of $2.5million usd because am traveling to Japan for investment project and i willl not return back to Usa or Mexico until september.
Regards,
Carlos Slim Helu Foundation Charitable Foundation
Remember, once they (scammers) have received their potential victims' personal information, they will use the information to trick the potential victims into sending money, which they will claim is for some advance fees, which will cover banking and transfer costs, insurance payments or tax that the potential victims need to pay before they can receive the so-called donated money. But, if the victims send their money, the scammers will steal it and may continue to trick the victims into sending more money, with the promise of receiving the donated money the scammers claim they would receive.
Recipients of the "Carlos Slim Helu Donation" scam emails are asked not to respond to or follow the instructions in them. They should just delete the email messages instead. For those who have responded, they should be careful going forward because they will be contacted by scammers who will attempt to scam them.