In the last few hours, an email claiming to be from Facebook has started to be distributed. The email informs you that you have won a huge amount and informs you of the steps you need to follow in order to receive it.
The following is the message as forwarded to us by a friend of his iGuRu.gr. The email is in Greek but with a bad translation (notice how it states the amount, but also other things points near the end)
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FACEBOOK INC.
1601 WILLOW ROAD MENLO PARK, CA 94025
www.facebook.com
Dear Facebook user:
We would like to inform you that your Facebook email account has won a cash prize of €4.200.000,00 (four million two hundreds of thousands of euros) for the promotion of Facebook Edition 2020
Congratulations on being one of the selected individuals.
We advise you to send the following information to the management of Facebook Inc to process your claim.
- Full name:
- Country:
- Contact address:
- Telephone:
- Marital status:
- Profession:
- Company:
- Age:
Congratulations!! One more time.
For reasons security, we recommend that all winners keep this information confidential from the public until your claim has been processed and your prize has been released. This is part of our security protocol to prevent duplicate claims and undue exploitation of this program by non-participants or unofficial personnel.
NOTE: Send the required information to the official email address of the processing claim
(fbdirectdesk20@gmail.com)
Office of the President
Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg
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As you can see the main purpose of the email is to get your information. Of course whoever answers will receive another email, asking for more things. These types of scams usually require some filing money to arrange the transfer of the amount (bank charges).
Attention to all those who receive the email and are happy for their incredible luck. The email asking you to reply is to gmail and not to Facebook, although a scammer has tried to look a bit like: fbdirectdesk20@gmail.com