419 scam: UN Legal Affairs <suinfo@tim.it> RE: URGENT (YOUR FUNDS)

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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!

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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: UN Legal Affairs <suinfo@tim.it>
Reply-To: tobias4@virginmedia.com
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 22:24:08 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: RE: URGENT (YOUR FUNDS)

United Nations Headquarters in New York
405 East 42nd Street,
New York, NY, 10017,USA.

Attention

Following the recent meeting with the board members of I.M.F debt
reconciliation commission in Washington D.C ,this is to inform you of a very
important resolution that is bound to bring to pass your long years of
expectation regarding your long over due fund (ten million and five hundred
thousaud US Dollars) that is ought to have been released to you all these
years.
At the meeting, the issue of this transaction was brought up and rectified,
after going through the report of what most of the beneficiaries have gone
through in respect to this transaction. In order to put a stop to this and
bring succor to you, we have agreed with I.M.F and have issued a letter to all
that is in possession of this fund to release your fund immediately after
verification of all statutory requirements.

Please report to this office, any individual or institution that further
contacts you on this issue. If you are dealing or currently sending money to
anybody in respect of your fund, please stop immediately and stop any further
communication with them.You are required to acknowledge this mail so that
further details of your payment will be communicated to you. Be advised that we
have a time frame within which to round off payments and submit our reports,
meaning that time is of great essence in this matter.

Yours Sincerely.

Mr. Stephen T. Mathias
Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs
Office of the Legal Affairs

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