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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "UNITED NATIONS PAYMENT OFFICE" <benkojo02@unimail.mn>
Reply-To: benkojo123@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:54:19 -0700
Subject: SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATION PAYMENT
SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATION PAYMENT
PAYMENT REF CODE:UN-FGN/P/06654/08
Dear,
NIGERIAN/UNITED NATIONS 2008 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATION PAYMENT.
This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations
regional office in Nigeria and Central Bank of Nigeria to pay 150 scam
victims of $5,000,000.00 (FIVE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR) each.
You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims
to be paid this amount, get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate
payments of your $5,000,000.00 compensation fund.
On this faithful recommendations,we want you to know that during the last
U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by the world
leaders in the meeting on the lost of funds by various individuals to the
Nigerian scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today. In
other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the Nigerian
Government is now paying 150 victims of this operators $5,000,000.00 each in
accordance with the U.N. recommendations.
Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria,the payments
are to be supervised by the United Nations Officials and the Central Bank
Nigeria as the corresponding paying bank is UBA.
According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been
paid,half of the victims are from the United States, we still have more 36
left to be paid the compensations of $5,000,000.00 each.
Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as
one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to
communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as
the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep
it secret till they are all apprehended.
Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as
well for scrutiny and possible consideration.
You can receive your compensation payments via any of this options you
Choose,ATM CARD or CERTIFIED CHEQUE/DRAFT PAYMENT.I shall notify you with
further modalities as soon as I hear from you.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Ben Kojo
Payment Officer
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