What is the “Jeff Bezos Charity Project” email scam
The “Jeff Bezos Charity Project” email scam refers to a false email that claims the recipient will receive $520,000,00 because Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is giving away his fortune.
A new scam is going around, with malicious actors pretending to be Jeff Bezos and promising hundreds of thousands of dollars. The scam claims that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is planning on giving away his $124 billion fortune to randomly selected people. If you receive the email, you were supposedly chosen. However, this is nothing more than a scam.
I’m Jeff Bezos,
The CEO of Amazon, it’s on this note that I’m informing the world of
my intention to give out my Fortune of $124 Billion of my wealth to
the lucky ones around the country and world at large.Your email was randomly selected to be a part of the people who will
be beneficiaries of this charity project. each person would be awarded
$520,000,00.Contact the Agent on how to proceed.
Email: deborahjennings201@gmail.comMy Best Regards..
This “I’m Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon” email is part of a recent spam campaign targetting users whose email addresses have been leaked or part of a data breach. Thus, if you receive this email, your email address has likely been leaked by some service you used it for. You can check whether it’s been leaked on haveibeenpwned.
The email claims that Jeff Bezos has decided to give $520,000,00 to each email recipient, with a total of $124 billion to be given away. This is supposedly part of a Jeff Bezos charity project. The email even links to a legitimate CNBC article about Jeff Bezos promising to give away his fortune. While the linked article is legitimate, it has nothing to do with this email spam campaign.
Recipients of this email are asked to contact an agent called Deborah Jennings using the provided email address (deborahjennings201@gmail.com). People who contact them will supposedly receive instructions on how to proceed. In reality, instead of getting money, users would have their personal information phished and money potentially stolen. The scammer would likely ask for personal details like full name, age, gender, nationality, country of residence, full address, and phone number. This is very valuable data and would either be used by the scam operators or sold on some hacker forum to other malicious actors. In some cases, the scammers may ask the recipient to first send money to them. They usually claim it’s some kind of proof that the person exists and that it’s their bank account. However, as is obvious already, users would send money to scammers but would not receive anything in return.
There’s likely no need to explain why this “Jeff Bezos Charity Project” email is a scam. While Jeff Bezos has said that he will give away his fortune, he certainly will not do it via emails to random people. Money like that is given away to charities. Furthermore, someone working in a high-ranking position in a company like Amazon would certainly not have such an unprofessional-looking email address as deborahjennings201@gmail.com.
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