419 scam: "United Nation Zonal Office UK" <info@unn.org> Read Carefully And Reply Quickly

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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:

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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "United Nation Zonal Office UK" <info@unn.org>
Reply-To: email@unn-uk.org
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 06:57:54 -0000
Subject: Read Carefully And Reply Quickly

Attn: Sir,

This is the United Nation Zonal Office covering United Kingdom and Africa
in partnership with the UK Crime Commission working together to flush out
Internet Fraud, money Laundry and other related internet Crimes. It is our
pleasure to inform you that we have arrested over thirty six most wanted
criminals in Nigeria, United Kingdom and Ghana who uses internet to
defraud citizens of the United States, Europe and Asia of their hard earn
money. During most of our interrogation, one of them confessed and listed
your name and your contact info as one their victims. So far We have
recovered over $73 million from them including the money they defrauded
you waiting for your confirmation so that we can send back your recovered
funds to you withing 72 hours. Your recovered funds has been deposited
with Royal Bank Of Scotland our official paying bank here in London
pending when we receive a confirmation from you.

You will have to re-confirm all your contact details to us for us to be
sure that we are dealing with the Right person including the total amount
you lost during the transaction and the names and address of the people
you sent the Money to.

Best Regards,

Mr. Paul Wattie
Tel: 703-590-5233
For The UN Zonal Office UK.

Anti-fraud resources:

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