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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • hunitednationboard@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: United Nation Spain Branch <u.spainbranch@yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: hunitednationboard@yahoo.es
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 04:29:40 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (United Nation Notice)


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Attenttion Scam Victim,

UNITED NATIONS 2001/2002/2003/2004/2005/2006/2007/2008/ SCAM VICTIMS PAYMENTS.

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations to pay 450 scam victims 150,000, (ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO) each.

You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this Office as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your 150.000 Euro compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations,we want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Malaga in Spain, it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today. In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the Spanish Government is now paying 450 victims of this operators 150.000 (ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO) each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in The world today, the payments are to be supervised by the United Nations'Officials.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to Communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service and Span is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended.

Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.If you are Among Respond to this Office Immediatly.

Renspond to this email ; hunitednationboard@yahoo.es


Payments options are via, Atm Card Payment and Bank Draft.

Yours faithfully,
Demion Antonio




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