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When an email from the OCDE comes via Taiwan
Penyiaran jaluran : Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 06:13
Ahli (2007)
Bahasa Inggeris hingga Bahasa Portugis
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Apr 7

I've just received another very interesting email from authenrieth@makalot.com.tw:

"How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family? You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having meetings for the past 3 months which ended 2 days ago with the International Money Fund (IMF) President-Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva, the United Nations Secretary General-Mr. Ant'onio Guterres as well as the World ... See more
I've just received another very interesting email from authenrieth@makalot.com.tw:

"How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family? You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having meetings for the past 3 months which ended 2 days ago with the International Money Fund (IMF) President-Mrs. Kristalina Georgieva, the United Nations Secretary General-Mr. Ant'onio Guterres as well as the World Bank President Mr. Ajay Banga.

This email is to the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the United Nations in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund in Affiliation with the World Bank have agreed to compensate them with the sum of 1,500,000.00 (One Million and Five Hundred Thousand Euro) only.

This includes every foreign contractor that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems etc. We found your email in our list and that is why we are contacting you; this has been agreed upon and has been signed.

For this reason, Please reach Mrs. Elizabeth Otti with your code: OECD/04/2025 for more information:

Attention: Beneficiary
Person to Contact: Mrs. Elizabeth Otti
Email: elizabethotti146@gmail.com

Making the world a better place.

Regards,

Assistant Secretary General - Mr. Mathias Cormann
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)"

Will throwing around the names of well-known personalities make us give more credibility to these kinds of messages? ▲ Collapse


Zea_Mays
Kevin Fulton
expressisverbis
Yossi Rozenman
Maria Laura Curzi
Philip Lees
 
Zea_Mays
Zea_Mays  Identity Verified
Itali
Local time: 07:13
Ahli (2009)
Bahasa Inggeris hingga Bahasa Jerman
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LOL Apr 7

That's a new twist - compensating "people that have been scammed"!
Think of those who might fall for it - they'd be scammed twice.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
writeaway
Kevin Fulton
Yossi Rozenman
Maria Laura Curzi
Philip Lees
 
Shirley Lao
Shirley Lao  Identity Verified
Taiwan
Local time: 13:13
Ahli (2007)
Bahasa Inggeris hingga Bahasa Cina
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A company legally valid in Taiwan Apr 7

Makalot appears to be a legitimate textile and apparel manufacturer based in Taiwan (website: http://www.makalot.com.tw). It seems that this company has no connection or affiliation with the OCDE. You may consider contacting the company directly to inquire whether their internal systems may have been compromised by any unauthorized activity or cyberattacks.
 
Dan Lucas
Dan Lucas  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:13
Ahli (2014)
Bahasa Jepun hingga Bahasa Inggeris
What matters is the "reply" email address Apr 7

Shirley Lao wrote:
You may consider contacting the company directly to inquire whether their internal systems may have been compromised by any unauthorized activity or cyberattacks.

Anybody can set their "send" email address to a different address such as authenrieth@makalot.com.tw. You can do it yourself - look in the account details of your email software. However, what matters is the reply-to email address. Of course a scammer can also set the reply address to authenrieth@makalot.com.tw, but then all the replies associated with the scam will go to that company, which will ignore them. This is why, in this case, the email address for replies is given as elizabethotti146@gmail.com, which is clearly nothing to do with Makalot.

In 99.9% of cases, emails from purported companies using gmail and other free email addresses are scam emails. There may be very rare exceptions, but they just prove the rule.

Regards,
Dan

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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