1 - Whenever the sender of an email message is claiming to be a doctor, engineer, professor, banker, loan officer, government official, or a legal practitioner (barrister, lawyer, attorney, esquire, solicitor) or claims to be working for a large corporation, a courier company, a government agency, a bank, a financial institution, or a money transfer service company, but yet the email address that they are contacting you from is a free email account from Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Outlook, AOL, Mail.com, etc, then it is always a scam. Real people working in a professional capacity will never use one of these free email services to conduct business because they will always have a proper business email address associated with their stated organization or profession. Thus, if you received an email from someone who has used a free email service provider to send you an email message, but yet they are claiming they are in control of a lot of money and that they are working as a professionally employed person, then it is definitely a scam.
2 - Nobody ever sends a large amount of free money to someone whom they don’t know. It never happens in the real world. So when a person (that you have never had any contact with before) sends you an unexpected email claiming that they will be sending you a large amount of money then the email sender is always an imposter and the email is always fake, fraudulent, and a criminal scam. It doesn’t matter if the person claims to be seeking a business or investment partner or says that they are from a government agency (the United Nations, the IMF, etc) a law enforcement agency (the FBI, INTERPOL, etc), a retail bank (Chase, HSBC, Bank of America, etc) or a government central bank (Federal Reserve Bank, Bank Of England, Central Bank of Nigeria, etc), a military officer, a barrister or lawyer, a diplomatic agent, from a lottery, from a courier or delivery company (FedEx, DHL, etc), regarding a donation, regarding an ATM card, regarding any kind of money transfer (Western Union, Money Gram, etc), financial aid, Covid-19 relief money, a widow with a lot of money, a refugee with a lot of money, an orphan or a dying person with a lot of money, an inheritance or next of kin proposal, a loan offer, or some other offer involving a lot of money, then these are always fake and fraudulent offers because nobody ever randomly sends out large amounts of free money via the internet. This means that any fanciful email offer that you might receive is always from a criminal imposter who is trying to spoof and trick you and to steal your money by getting you to send them some of your money first. And they will never send you anything that they are promising to you. This is also known as “Advance-Fee” fraud. Thus, if you received an email from someone offering to send you a large amount of free, easy money then it is definitely a scam.
3 - When something sounds like it is too good to be true then it always is never true.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Mail.com offers over 200 different free email domains, some of which may sound professional but they aren't. They are most commonly used by scammers to make their scams appear more convincing. Thus, if anyone contacts you with an unexpected offer, while using one of the many free Mail.com domains for their own email address, then it is definitely a scam. Some of the most popular free domains offered by Mail.com which scammers use frequently are @accountant.com, @australiamail.com, @lawyer.com, @presidency.com, @fastservice.com, @minister.com, @africamail.com, @secretary.net, @financier.com, @deliveryman.com, @dr.com, @asia.com, @activist.com, @usa.com, @englandmail.com, @europemail.com, @representative.com, @diplomats.com, @myself.com, @fastservice.com, @europe.com, @engineer.com, @cash4u.com, @job4u.com, @techie.com, @post.com, @workmail.com, or @consultant.com. For a full list of all the free domain names offered by Mail.com see the following link: https://www.mail.com/mail/domains


