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The development happening around the world is high, even on this occasion people tries to scam people through the age-old techniques of scamming through emails stating themselves as Buffett, Bill Gates and in the name of other billionaires. Have anyone encountered or received similar e-mails. This really seems funny to post this, but to know who else has received such emails I wrote it.
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People still believe in send 1 recieve 2 scam and you are writing something about fake emails. Scammers will send them until they stoped to work

if anyone fall for this then i guess it's deserved. i mean, even you're a bit drunk you should realize that no way in hell buffett would write something like that. typo everywhere, bad grammar, etc. not to mention the e-mail domain used to send it.

The sender even doubt himself and looking at those grammar, duhh!!

So, there's another currency other than the USD from USA? Look at that they have a second currency a "UD" maybe this one is for scamming purposes only of a currency. I would never reply with it that's too risky especially to those who have received the same message.

Freakin hilarious. This is pretty much the Saudi/Nigerian prince thingamajig, but in an American version LOL. This deeefinitely makes complete sense because Warren Buffett would definitely no doubt give money to random people on the internet instead of him giving money to charities like he usually does. /s

Few things I would like to point out here for the people who still would think that it's not a scam.

1.
*From Google

2. Warren buffet won't state that he is a billionaire !!

3. He won't ask you to Google his name !

4. He does a lot of charity work already and does not have the need to do anything like this

*From Google

5. How do you think the aforesaid person got your email ? Did you subscribe to his website? Or did the person paid to get this information ?
For sure it wasn't the subscription part ! Since he is asking you to Google his name !!!! So the person actually paid to get your email , websites usually sell it for a fixed amount , *including the social media websites*

6. It's too polite !
God bless you ?? It's not even professional !!

I am aware that there are people who still fall for scams like these , please be careful and thank you for sharing it since I have seen many gullible people even from my family.

Not an exact email but I've receive similar messages from scammers posing as famous people. We're smart enough not to fall for this kind of trickery but citizens from third world countries will most likely become victims, I'm not saying everyone will but greed and financial illiteracy is high on these area.

Anyone receiving these kinds of emails could mean their account have been pawned. Check if your account have been exposed on these sites:

If in case your email was pawned, read some guides in this article - What steps should you take when your email has been pwned? (https://blog.f-secure.com/what-steps-should-you-take-when-your-email-has-been-pwned/)

Exactly! The tome of the letter is obviously someone who wants to screw people. For those naive users that will email the said address, for sure that person will ask for money before sending anything else. We are done with this scamming technique. I hope internet users will just ignore this kind of message and put it in the trash bin immediately.

The scammer requested for a valid email address, which may indicate that even if the scam doesn't work they could sell a list of verified email addresses and you'll most likely be getting more emails similar to this one.
Always keep a private email address different from the one you expose online when registering on various platforms, this way you could better filter spam and scam attempts, depending on where you receive it.

This age-old tricks rarely work these days, but a more carefully written mail with less bogus indications of wealth may attract one to continue the conversation and this is where they are most vulnerable. So it's best to reduce the contact you have with such scammers.

It is an example of a very low IQ email spoofing attack. I don't know if people still fall for such dcams or not but it is a very old technique used by scammers and hackers worldwide. It worked welk back in 90s, but not anymore!

I often receive such kind of emails but they all land in my junk mailbox and get cleaned afterwards. Recently I saw that Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey are the favorite names for such scammers more than Warren Buffet. But it makes no sense nowadays, really!

I can’t say what happens when someone responds to a message like this, perhaps the alleged Mr. Buffett asks that you send him a certain amount first to qualify for reward? But considering that Mr. Buffett is very popular because he managed to amass a huge fortune during his life, I believe that some will believe that the offer is really real.

I would personally refused any money from him, even to meet him in person - he is one of those 10% who control 90% of the world's wealth and the reason why the world is like this today. Not to mention how much damage has been done to Bitcoin with its statements over the years.

You just have to check the email address and see that he got his name wrong. So you have to ask yourself how the hell do someone as brilliant as Warren Buffett got his spelling wrong? Obviously, something is not right here.

And as far as I know, Warren B. doesn't claim that the is indeed a billionaire, and if he wanted to help he has his own foundation "Buffett Foundation". This is one of the oldest trick and I do hope that no one will fall for this scam.

Haven't received such email, but if I did I was just laugh and completely ignore this. Similar emails proliferating in Facebook way back 2018, same email structure but different emails used, but the intention is still the same here.

https://www.facebook.com/drwealth.sg/photos/scamalertdo-not-fall-for-warren-buffetts-scam-billionaire-will-not-go-around-sen/2227354857492702/

This is so obvious and also why a warren buffett will email a particular person there are a lot of things needed to make to do before they contact a person and also a billionaire does not stake his own status just to prove it this is just absolutely a scam I don't know why there are still people doing this just to make a scam. This is one of the most traditional ways of getting information and scamming other people.

Still, there is a chance that he could do this because it is successful because I just doubt he mess with the wrong person lol.

Thanks for this information so the members could be aware. But still, there are some will entertain that message if they saw on their inbox.

Who cares about that peasant, I had conversations with nigerian princes I always recieve a letter from him.

So did you reply to that warrenbuffet45(@)outlook.com email address?
It would be nice for us to "reverse engineer" such stupid scams and catch the scammer. ;D
There was a subreddit on Reddit about scambaiting.A scammer needs some scambaiting,like joking with him and wasting his time...
I've never received emails from Bill Gates,Ellon Musk or Buffet,but once I received an email from a "woman who is fighting in Iraq for the US army" that "woman" wanted to "get to know me better". ;D
Unfortunately,I never replied to this email that surprisingly got straight into my Spam folder.

I done that and it get's boring after a time, if you friendly they can get extremely friendly, so friendly it's been months i get friend requests from people all with the same background or style, bitcoin has thousands of users that can go off very easily.

"Two Hundred Thousand United Dollars"; "Mr Warren Buffet Billionaire", lol :D If any American/British man fell for this, I'm not sure internet is the best place they could be on - no offense. I'd see some older persons fall for this scam though, if they have no idea how to use the internet and somehow fall into this guy's email list.

How is this related to Bitcoin in any way though? I don't see BTC mentioned anywhere in the e-mail you have received, it's just USD so it'd most likely be a fiat trap..

This. I'll never appreciate or praise a man who helped create this insane wealth inequality while still claiming to "make the world a better place".

You never know when will these people stop because it is the same for me, I often received some text messages saying that I won such and such a huge amount of money. They don't stop because these messages and emails are sent to millions of people around the world. where if they managed to fool just one person is a big accomplishment to them because they didn't do anything at all, they just constructed some lure messages and let it out to the people. when someone takes that bait, they already have their next move to fool that person.

Wait so being able to play along and become filthy rich makes you creator and mantainer of the system? Warren is at most a tool or a man with induced fear, billions are pointless when you got both governments and it's dark tentacles all around each of your moves.

System is here for hundreds of years, it's called christianity it has it's orders it is known stop making bullshit kevin.
Some of you still like god this god that, friggin waste of time.


Pope whinning about his culture with rhianna priceless, he was butthurt his dress got no diamonds.
Atleast thank to him we know actual sanctified water is good whiskey.
In case we get a fervorous christian here do your research, some adepts gifted him a bottle, it was censored from the article but they snitched after.


All the "warren" reading and the idea of him being a tool remembered me of.
https://i.imgur.com/S5hmo12.png
WABBUFFET!

Funny how scammer chose emails name - warrenbuffet45. Why 45 ? This grandpa is already 89 years old. He might want to lie about his age, but 45 is far away from 89  :)

Btw OP, do you know that your fake Warren Buffer is a greedy one. Here is another fake (https://www.facebook.com/drwealth.sg/photos/scamalertdo-not-fall-for-warren-buffetts-scam-billionaire-will-not-go-around-sen/2227354857492702/) that promises $1,500,000 United States Dollars. This time other two fake emails are used.

Found another (https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/fa9omi/got_a_scam_email_from_warren_buffett/). This has same mistake with United Dollars.

The more funny thing is that there are still a good number of people who fall for this kind of brainless scam.

The scam itself is terrible. It is laughable. It is a scam which seems to have not undergone the shortest of planning. And yet, look at how people are shelling out money for it.

Idiocy. Does anyone really think that Warren Buffett will deal with such small things and write such ill-formed letters.
You were chosen "Randomly", I would also write that "Thanks to the data purchased from Facebook, we have your email", the question is, do you have a Facebook?
I dare to assume that such scam schemes still work, since the scammers continue to promote them. If all people finally began to understand where the scam is and where not, most of it would have died out.

It is unbelievable to me that people are still falling for these scams at such a high level.  Honestly this should be one of the things taught it school that's actually helpful for your real world life, unlike a large chunk of the crap we have to learn growing up.  I remember getting my first "Nigerian Prince" AOL email scam attempt in the early 2000s.  I'm surprised more people didn't learn from this email two decades ago now.

I don't believe this an old-trick of scamming because if that is so old, people won't fall into this. Definitely, they are aware already but how come many are still been scammed and tricked?

One thing I've found out is that scammers will use known personalities to hide their identity. What it happens to Waren Buffet's name will also be happening with the others but they let this thing ruin their name instead of prompting to make some announcement. I'm not sure if he knows about this but probably, he's laughing to people who get scammed because if his name.