419 scam: "(UNITED NATIONS)"<info@un.com> GOOD DAY 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:
- ",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 dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "economic and financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "(efcc)" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
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.
- +2347033404723 (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.
- mrpeterhoward2@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
- it to you via dhl courier name: mr.peter howard / mrpeterhoward2@gmail.com email: unitednationcompensationunit0@gmail.com phone (Gmail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "(UNITED NATIONS)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrpeterhoward2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:30:30 -0400
Subject: GOOD DAY BENEFICIARY !!!

UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA
IN AFFILIATION WITH WORLD BANK.

ATTN: Beneficiary,

Hope all is well with you and Your family?, you may not understand why this mail came to you. In regards to the recent meeting between the United Nations and the new President of your United State Donald Trump and Present United States Government to restore the dignity and Economy of the Nations,Base on the Agreement with the World Bank Assistance to help and make the world a better place for all with the sole aim of abolishing poverty and those who have been involves into scam in anyway should be compensated. We have been having a meeting for the passed three months which ended two days ago.

The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current president of Nigeria his Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owned to Foriegners and Compensate all that have lost their hard earned money to the Nigeria Fraudsters.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$8,500,000 ( Eight Million Five Hundred United State Dollars) This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems,Contracts Sum, Lottery/Gambling etc.Your name and email was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Teams of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) observers and this is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.

You are advised to contact Mr.Peter Howard, as he is our representative in Nigeria immediately for your ATM VISA CARD worth the total sum of US$8,500,000 ( Eight Million Five Hundred United State Dollars) Which you can withdraw your Fund at any ATM Machine in your location Worldwide, So he will send it to you via DHL courier

NAME: Mr.Peter Howard / mrpeterhoward2@gmail.com
EMAIL: unitednationcompensationunit0@gmail.com
pHONE NUMBER: +234 703-340-4723

Please go through our website.

http://www.un.org/press/en

http://www.worldsafety.org/united-nations-representatives

Kindly re-confirm your details to him for verification, and make sure your residential address is provided correctly, to avoid any atom of mistake during delivery process of your ATM VISA CARD, so as to facilitate the immediate release of your ATM VISA CARD immediately as soon as you comply with the requirement.

(1) Your Full Name..................
(2) Full Residential Address........
(3) Direct and current telephone....
(4) Nationality.....................
(5) Present Country.................
(6) Occupation......................
(7) Age.............................
(8) Sex.............................

Give him your File Reference (RE-101-V) and you are free to contact him via telephone number, it will be better to call him and once you do that he will ask you of your File Reference number which is (RE-101-V), this file reference number is very important and gives him access to get through to your file and email you back quickly once he confirms your email and your delivery details.

Thanks for adhering to this instructions and once again accept our congratulations.

Good luck and kind regards,
Making the world a better place,
Mr, António Guterres Secretary General (UNITED NATIONS).

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