SCAM e-mails like this land in my SPAM box every day. The latests one was this:
From: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal <"
www."@eagle.ocn.ne.jp>Date: 6 June 2017 at 01:38
Subject: Your Urgent Reply Needed.
To:
Dear.
I know it will be a great surprise reading from me today but consider this a divine intervention as Imam explained to my understanding, My name is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, A philanthropist, the CEO and Chairman of alwaleed philanthropies a Charitable Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the world. I am also the Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company which investments ranges from luxury hotels, including The Four Seasons Savoy Hotel in London, and media, such as News Corp and Time Warner.
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 your religion should not make you deprive the needies be you Christian or Muslim and i have decided to donate $5Billion Dollars to randomly selected individuals worldwide each person receiving {$1,800,000.00} One Million Eight Hundred Thousand United Dollars only, I am making this donation in order to build a better world of tolerance, acceptance, equality and opportunity for all and also I wished to contribute to the elimination of poverty and famine, and to support development, health and education in the most deprived communities. The beneficiaries will spend the money on developing communities, providing disaster relief and supporting women and young people in there community. On receipt of this email, you should count yourself as the lucky individual. Your email address was chosen online while searching at random. Kindly Contact my Secretary in London Mrs.Nadia Bakhurji at your earliest convenience with the following details so she will know your email address is valid.You can Google me visiting my website bellow:
http://www.nakhweh.org/en/organizations/566-Alwaleed-bin-Talal-Charitable-FoundationYour Full name______
Your Address_______
Your Country_____
Your Age________
Your Sex_______
Your Phone number___
E-mail: secretarynadiabakhurji02222@outlook.com
Warmest Regards,
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Given that my name figure in my e-mail address I wonder why I wasn't addressed by it. Also you can see that the e-mail originates in Japan ("
www."@eagle.ocn.ne.jp) and he asks for replies be sent to an outlook address rather than his own domain: @alwaleed.com.sa. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a genuine Saudi Arabian billionaire philanthropist (
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/03/alwaleed-bin-talal-meet-the-saudi-prince-giving-away-all-his-money) but the person or persons who wrote this e-mail is/are definitely not he.
With regard to that Japanese e-mail address, it seems to appear with monotonous regularity (with slight variations) in SCAM e-mails these days and I have suspicions that it might be a domain specifically set up for the purpose of sending out SCAMS.