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Scam Email
From: "Paul G. Allen Family Foundation" <pjfoundations@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "pffgrant@gmail.com" <pffgrant@gmail.com>
Subject: Donation For You From Paul G. Allen Family Foundation!
Hi,
My name is Paul Allen, an American philanthropist, investor and innovator, best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation and founder of Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. I believed 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 give USD$1,200.000.00 (One Million Two Hundred Thousand United State 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 at your earliest convenience, so I know your email address is valid.
(pffgrant@gmail.com) Email me.
Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen or you can Google me ( Paul Allen ).
Regards,
Paul G. Allen
I received the same type of email this morning...except he didn't even bother to write the email. Everything was contained in the "Subject" line at the top of the email. It basically said PG Allen Family Foundation, 1,200,000 donated to this address, please confirm email address. I am glad to see that others have posted their experiences, because this particular foundation is real. But I'm quite sure the gift of 1 200 000 is not! If they can't be bothered to send a real email, I doubt they care about giving away money or helping the poor. This gives legitimate charities a bad name. Please don't respond to this one!
ReplyDeleteI received the same type of email this morning...except he didn't even bother to write the email. Everything was contained in the "Subject" line at the top of the email. It basically said PG Allen Family Foundation, 1,200,000 donated to this address, please confirm email address. I am glad to see that others have posted their experiences, because this particular foundation is real. But I'm quite sure the gift of 1 200 000 is not! If they can't be bothered to send a real email, I doubt they care about giving away money or helping the poor. This gives legitimate charities a bad name. Please don't respond to this one!
ReplyDeleteI also received this type of email and checked to see if scam....It Is from africa area...very popular area for scams to come from....Nigeria is what I'm guessing. BEWARE!
ReplyDeleteI just received on this morning - email address is somewhat different but general email is the same.
ReplyDelete"My name is Paul Allen, an American philanthropist, investor and innovator, best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation and founder of Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. I believed 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 give USD$1,200.000.00 (One Million Two Hundred Thousand United State 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 at your earliest convenience, so I know your email address is valid.
( paulallenfoundation@gmail.com ) Email me."
Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen or you can Google me ( Paul Allen ).
Regards,
Mr. Paul G. Allen
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Yes all please be aware. I also got the same email about the foundation picking me at random for a 1200,000.00 reward for the poor and to help random people. If you search the person who says is sending you will find him everywhere in search, but you will also find the company under scam searches everywhre...GOOD LUCK to all and thank to all of us and the one taking the time to be able to post and try to help everyone as a hole.
ReplyDeleteRecently received same basic e:mail-server is outlook now and Val Bush is also mentioned as Grant Specialist. Ian is in Asia as is the Standard Bank. Information was forwarded to Federal Trade Commission! I wish they'd put a STOP to this scam stuff, they bankrupted my mother and sister.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know it was a scam until i searched for more information of what it is. Is it too late for me since i have replied to the email already
ReplyDeleteI received it just a few minutes ago and emailed back my attorney will be notified for verification of your gift. Then I was blocked.
ReplyDeleteAlso received a Word atachment saying:
ReplyDeleteYou have been awarded $1,200,000.00 U.S Dollars by Paul G. Allen Family Foundation,
Your email address was chosen online while searching at random,
I know your email address is valid and active, Kindly get back to me at your
earliest convenience via email id: paulg.allen1953@gmail.com
For more details Visit our page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen
Regards,
Paul G.Allen.
Wow! What kind of creeps...do this to us unsuspecting..RANDOM individuals....I too...received this email.....this sucks for such a great foundation....BEWARE
ReplyDeleteI am Michell Brown, and I have received two letter's from "Paul Allen foundation" saying I'm to receive one million, two hundred thousand dollars. The second letter asked for my full name, D.O.B, mailing address, and occupation. Stupidity I responded, because I thought it was legit. Everything I looked up online seemed respectable, until I found this site, what can I do? I'm not wealthy, I'm disabled, am I in any danger? After reading a few of these replies, I did e-mail one last time stating that I have given the e-mails to my attorney, whom is looking forward to their response, but I pulled the attorney's name out of the phone book! I don't know what else to do, can someone help me? You can reach me at: Michell_brown2469@yahoo.com please help me if you can!
ReplyDeletethis is a damn shame and since non of them give directly to us poor people living in poverty they all look bad any how!they all have a bad name !greedy blood sucking lieing assas!
ReplyDeletewhere is the real paul g.allen family foundation and why arent they doing anything to actually help us poor people.dont he know we are in need of help that's why we are on here!why dont he put up a site so we can get real funding help for a change instead of sending scam and fraud letter's.it must be a connection because he is doing nothing or saying anything about stopping it!paul g.allen founation if you read these fraud and scam notices we are all on here recieving .we are in of funding help .you may not know but we are struggling and living poor in poverty and we have hardship's and deep crisis we have to face daily in out lives we are asking for funding help and support for all of our causes .we are asking just to see if you truly have a heart for humanity!i hope you read all our blog's and decides to help every last one of us.rbrown7000@yahoo.com we need poverty help!robina brown
ReplyDeletei received the same email and respond till the bank mail the thing i get irritated by is asking my id,
ReplyDeletethe problem is they become clever and snaky every day they had site for the bank, Wikipedia page, also LinkedIn accounts.
i'm shocked how much we are so weak. may god bless our steps.
I got a email 2 months ago and yes i did think it was real.They told me the bank would be contacting me, i made plans with that million dollars i thought i won.The problem i see is there is scammers who come up with these good program that would make us poor people think these paul g allen people really care about us.Why don't you do programs like this? They used your name your foundation and you do have the money to make good on everyone who got scammed from your foundation. You would be so famous doing this to us who got scammed.You know paul there is no rich billionaires or millionaires that has ever cared about us trying to help us get buy . You could be the person to show people you do care about the ones who got scammed.You are worth 17 billion all I want is 1 MILLION AND 2 HUNDERD THOUSAND DOLLARS
ReplyDeleteI received an email few minutes back ,spontaneously I deleted that message . Nobody is gonna gift such a huge amount for an unknown person. It is such a paradox just after religion and god. These kind of paradoxes never care about the HUMANITY.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I received one. Please google this guys, the PGA foundation never asked anyone to fill up the membership details and they are of the scam who is using their name.
ReplyDeleteHow it all turned out in the end. also jsewm unfortunately replied?
ReplyDeleteHow it all turned out in the end. also jsewm unfortunately replied?
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