419 scam: "UNITED NATION (UN)"<KathyCalvinfo@yahoo.com> UNITED NATION (UN)

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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:
- "million 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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "UNITED NATION (UN)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <KathyCalvinfo1@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 02:40:21 -0800
Subject: UNITED NATION (UN)

ATTENTION

United Nation have released 58 million dollars to assist internally
displayed persons as a result of boko haram crisis in nigeria, being the
finance officer, united nation [UN], we have decided to pay the sum of
25.5 million dollars into your account, we are going to COMPLETE the
TRANSFER PROCCESS TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT and is going to be transfer into
account of your choice, it is risky, but we have to do it, once the money
is credited into your account and you confirm it, make sure you re-transfer
the money to another accountimmediately you confirmed the receipt, I know
why I want it this way, to avoid been traced very soon.

Note; if we transfer the money into your account and
you receive it successfully, you will give me $10.5 million dollars

If you want me to go ahead, let me know as soon as you get this mail,
so that I can complete the PAYMENT SCHEDULE and make
the transfer without further delay. It might be in the next 6 months
that they will find out this transaction, I expect you by then that,
you must have re-transferred the fund into another account, because
once the transaction is done, it will be deleted from the computer
payment database system, so that the fund cannot be traced by the
united nation authority.

Yours sincerely,

Kathy Calvin,
THE FINANCE OFFICER

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