419 scam: "Robert Gauthier"<diplomatic.channels@yahoo.com.au> Your US$2,500,000.00 Financial Grant Release Notice.

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- ",500,000" (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)
- "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)
- "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Robert Gauthier" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <humanright.agency@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:59:39 -0700
Subject: Your US$2,500,000.00 Financial Grant Release Notice.

Your US$2,500,000.00 Financial Grant Release Notice.

To your attention

The UNCC and IMF enacted this compensation/financial grant program to create financial empowerment for the selected beneficiaries of which some are victims of fraud/scam via cyber-crime. The UNCC and IMF the executive board of directors assessed the financial status of the beneficiaries before certifying them to receive this compensation/financial grant in order to create financial empowerment for them. You can visit this web link for more information: http://www.uncc.ch

We found out that your payment has long been approved to be released to you but the greed which exist in the lives of the senior workers will never allow them to let you have your payment. Some of you beneficiaries are not even aware of this payment. They don't even know that such payments exist for them.

These more reasons top officials are using your money to trade at the International Market buying stocks and making interest while delaying your payment. These officials use delay tactics to hold on to your payment while they make money.

We have been trying to get your direct contact as we do not want to pass through Nigerian officials to void any hijacking of the process to rip you off thereby denting our credibility and image.

The above body has collected and have been collecting compensations payments, contracts payments, inheritance and lotteries payment for those whose payments are overdue but were denied of the payment with one excuse to the other and qualified for our intervention as this point.

We have collected for you the sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars ( US$2.5M ) only. This sum are in international irrevocable bank official checks and Automated Teller Machine (ATM card). We include your package among the

American beneficiaries, therefore, contact our agent in the States to send your package to you giving her your address. You can see that owing to the delays in getting your direct e-mail or telephone your package has been delayed and was about to be returned to source before we got your e-mail. If this your e-mail then follow the instruction as contain herein and do according. Should there be more fund being owe to you forward the information to us immediately.

All collected payments have been delivered to the United States mail-ware-house. You are required to send your names, address and direct telephone.

You may confirm the payment to this office for record purposes.

Thank you

Robert Gauthier

United Nation Compensation Commission
UNCC Secretariat
United Nations House
Plot 11 Wuse Abuja
Nigeria

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