419 scam: "U.N Beneficiary"<u.n-beneficiary@outlook.com> U.N Beneficiary

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
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.
- barbarachhan@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "U.N Beneficiary" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barbarachhan@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 19:27:26 -0700
Subject: U.N Beneficiary

UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
Compensation/Settlement Department
138 UN Plaza Westbrook Street UK Annex,
London SW1V 2NDF,
www.un.org
Dear Beneficiary,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded United Nations Compensation payment draws held in United Kingdom which your email address was among the lucky winners.

No tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation of owners and privacy.The online draw selection process was carried out through random selection in our United Nations computerized e-mail selection machine(TOPAZ) from a database of over 985,000 email addresses of individuals and corporate bodies drawn from all the continents of the world.

This is as a result of the mandate from United Nations Compensation program /US Government to make sure all debts owed to citizens of American, Asia and also Europe which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared and This is Your Payment file, United Nations Approval No; UN5685P/2013/, White House Approved No: WH44CV, Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No: 339331, Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No: 103, Release Code No:055904UNG ; Immediate (IMF) Telex confirmation No: -1114433; Secret Code No: XXTN013.

Having received these vital payment numbers, therefore you are qualified now to receive your payment of ( $3,200,000.00USD) from our authorized Pacific Asia payment office in south east Asia where your payment file falls.You are advised to respond immediately with the under listed information's for clarification and further directive on how to receive your fund. contact email barbarachhan@yahoo.com

You are required to re-furnish this office with the following information

1.Full Name............................
2.Country of Origin.............
3.Present Address.................
4.Occupation..........................
5.Marital Status.......................
6.Date of Birth.....................
7.Telephone Number...........
8.Sex........................

Therefore, to facilitate the immediate release of your payment, you are advised to contact our official paying office/officer, Mr. Barbara Chhan of FTB on the below contact with your Approval No; UN5685P/2013/ Keep all your information away from the general public especially your Approval No; UN5685P/2013/. This is very important and a case of double claims will not be entertained.

You have to contact him directly on this information
FTB Foreign Operations Manager
Mr. Barbara Chhan
Email:barbarachhan@yahoo.com

Yours Sincerely
Pamela Stanford
Coordinator

Signed by,
UN SECRETARY GENERAL

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