419 scam: "MR. BAN KI MOON"<bankimoon@un.org> Greetings

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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:
- "million us dollars" (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)
- "hundred thousand united state dollars" (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)
- ",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)
- "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2348067413919 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- revben.simpkins@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR. BAN KI MOON" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <revben.simpkins@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:36:22 +0800
Subject: Greetings

WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAM

DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL

PAYMENT AND TRANSFER.

DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT

United Nations Headquarters,

New York, NY 10017 , USA

YOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.

Greetings,

We were authorized by the newly appointed United Nation Secretary General, and the Governing body of the United Nations Debt Reconciliation Unit, to investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment, recommended and approved in your favor. During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank and Government regulatory organs in Nigeria who are trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in HSBC To pay 50 victims from your country who has being Victims of Internet scam .The United Nations has decided to pay you 4.5 Million US Dollars(four Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) 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 payment of your $4,500,000 USD compensation funds. We have been having a meeting for the past Seven months which ended Three days ago with the former secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.

This email is to 50 selected people that have been scammed or extorted money from because of your contract payment execution in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of $4.5 MILLON USD This includes every foreign contractors that may have not yet received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems or irregularities 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 by the United Nations Board of Directors and Trustees from the WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME.

We sent you series of emails in this regards but you did not respond back to us; However, in the course of our routine secularization into our Dispatch Alert, we discovered that the document of your fund is intact and very much available, note that United Nations Board of Director have sign your ATM CARD/CHECK in the favor of your name and hand it over to
REV. BEN SIMPKINS Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit to fill it, you have to contact
REV. BEN SIMPKINS in charge of your ATM CARD/CHECK, as he is our UNITED NATIONS representative in AFRICA region, contact him immediately for your ATM CARD/CHECK VALUE SUM OF $4.5.MILLION USD.

Contact information:

REV. BEN SIMPKINS

Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit .

Email: (revben.simpkins@yahoo.com)

Direct Tel: +2348067413919

As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide a reconfirmation of your present address as below to the contact in other for the Officer to effect the change and Re-direct the parcel to your home address.

FULL NAME:

ADDRESS:

PHONE NUMBER:

OCCUPATION:

AGE/SEX:

IDENTIFICATION CARD/DRIVER'S LICENSE:

We expect your urgent attention to this email to enable us monitor this payment effectively.

Yours Faithfully,

Secretary-General United Nation

BAN KI MOON

UNITED STATE OF AMERICA

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