{"id":828,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"2018-FIFA-World-Cup-Advance-Fee-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"2018 FIFA World Cup Advance Fee Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to this message, your email address has won  \u00a31 million courtesy of the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee and the Microsoft-Euro Online Lottery Award Team. \u00a0  \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, your email address was randomly chosen as the winner from a pool of 500,000 email addresses via &#8220;e-sorting balloting&#8221;. \u00a0 The message urges you to contact your &#8220;fund processing manager&#8221; to arrange the release of your prize money.<\/p>\n<p>But, alas, the email has no connection whatsoever to either \u00a0FIFA or Microsoft and you have not won so much as a penny, let alone \u00a0 \u00a31 million.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the email is an advance fee scam designed to steal your money and your personal information. If you contact your \u00a0&#8220;fund processing manager&#8221; as instructed, you will soon be asked to send money to cover various imaginary processing fees invented by the scammers.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers will continue to ask for more and more money until you realise that you are being conned and stop responding to them. \u00a0 At the end of the scam, the criminals will disappear with all of the money you sent. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> As the scam played out, the criminals may also have been able to trick you into sending them a lot of your personal and financial information. \u00a0 They may later use this information to steal your identity.<\/p>\n<p>Scams like this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/advance-fee-lottery-scams-international-lottery-scam-information\/\">continue to be very common<\/a>. \u00a0 Versions of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/2012-fifa-world-cup-online-lottery-advance-fee-scam\/\">FIFA World cup lottery scams<\/a> have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fifa-2010-world-cup-lottery-scam\/\">distributed repeatedly<\/a> in recent years. \u00a0 Advance fee scammers \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/category\/scams\/advancefee\/\">use many other cover stories<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Be wary of any message that claims that you have won a large sum of money in a lottery or promotion that you know \u00a0nothing about and did not \u00a0enter. No organization or company is ever likely to give away millions of dollars or pounds to strangers randomly selected \u00a0over the Internet. \u00a0 Any message that makes such a claim is very likely to be a scam.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>An example of \u00a0the scam message:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Subject: FIFA WORLD CUP RUSSIA 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KINDLY DOWNLOAD ATTACHMENT<\/p>\n<p>(Screenshot of attached PDF)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fifi-world-cup-russia-2018-scam-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18391\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/2018-fifa-world-cup-advance-fee-scam\/fifi-world-cup-russia-2018-scam-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fifi-world-cup-russia-2018-scam-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1022\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fifi-world-cup-russia-2018-scam-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fifi-world-cup-russia-2018-scam-1-235x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fifi-world-cup-russia-2018-scam-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fifi-world-cup-russia-2018-scam-1.jpg\" alt=\"FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 Scam\" width=\"800\" height=\"1022\" 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\/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/2018-fifa-world-cup-advance-fee-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/2018-fifa-world-cup-advance-fee-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this message, your email address has won \u00a31 million courtesy of the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee and the Microsoft-Euro Online Lottery Award Team. \u00a0 \u00a0 Supposedly, your email address was randomly 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