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I happened to have a new email that has a bit of a twist on the existing wire transfer scams going around. This email was sent today 5/5/2020. Like with many random email scams let’s not fall for them.
The email
The email was sent from a Reem Hashimy. “she” is sending the email from a Gmail account. hashimyreem78 hashimyreem78@gmail.com The email was sent to my blog email address.
The email message
Good day,
My name is Reem E. Hashimy, the Emirates Minister of State and Managing Director of the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) World Expo 2020 Committee.
I am writing you to manage my funds I received as financial gratification from various foreign companies I assisted to receive participation slot in the incoming Dubai World Expo 2020.
The amount is $44,762,906.00 United States dollars.The cumulative deposit were given as an expression of appreciation from the various foreign companies whose applications received approval to participate in the in-coming Dubai Expo 2020. But I could not receive the various gratifications to my personal account in my country because my social status as a married Muslim lady with limitations to certain investment opportunities.
For this reason, an agreement was reached with a consulting firm to keep the funds in open beneficiary account with a financial institution where it will be possible to instruct transfer of the funds to a third party account for investment purpose which is the reason I am contacting you to receive and manage the funds as my investment partner.
The detail will be discuss on your indication of interest with your information and capacity to manage the fund.
However, if you are not ready to take up responsibility in this partnership, please do not reply.
While looking forward to good partnership, I am wishing you the best of the year.
my Regards
Reem Hashimy.
Here’s the thing
Here’s the thing you can catch the typos in a way. I just went back up and read a line of the email and noticed that they typed the following:
in-coming Dubai Expo 2020
Now as we know many areas of the world are still dealing with COVID-19 so many conferences have been canceled. So why would this random woman be looking for someone to help her handle her large sum of money.
I always find it amusing how these beneficiary emails always have high dollar amounts. No one is ever going to question this.
The other thing that gets me is that these emails are sent to various email accounts. As I mentioned this was sent to my blog’s email account. But it will as easily end up in your inbox as well.
I’ve shard a few of these emails in the past but i think this is the first one I can recall ever being sent from a woman. Or a story line of it being from a woman. Most of them had been general beneficiary emails from scammers claiming to be U.N. Ambassadors or another well known agency.
I did some digging
I did some digging and found out that this scam is roughly around a year old or so. I found it listed on two separate websites. Both had a similar story line of needing benefactor or someone to invest their money.
don’t fall for these
Don’t fall for these scams. I know the large sum of money is enticing. From one post I read the person replied back and they were asked to transfer $300 for the services to begin. So you know no one is just going to contact you and need investment or beneficiary aid. I know that the sum of $44,762,906.00 is a fair chunk of cash but I highly doubt you’ll ever see it.
