419 scam: "UNITED NATION ORGANIZATION"<info@unitednation.com> COMPENSATION PAYMENT

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "UNITED NATION ORGANIZATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <williams.brown0@live.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:34:21 +0100
Subject: COMPENSATION PAYMENT

United Nation Organization

Office ROBERT WILLIAMS

Director International Fraud

Surveillance and Control.

700 19th Street , N.W,

Washington state 20631 US

Attention: Beneficiary.

Your email address was listed by INTERPOL, and UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE as one of the victims

of Internet fraud/scam caused by syndicates operating all over the world particularly in Africa.

The International Human Right Commission has given approval to compensate some of these victims.

Please if you are a victim; notify this office within 7 days from the date of this letter of the

total amount you lost to these syndicates we have negociated instructions with Fin Bank of Nigeria

Plc pay 100 victims of scam the sum of $3.5USD (Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Only

each).You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this

amount and You are required to get back tothis office as soon as possible for the immediate

payments of your $3.5Million USD compensation funds.

Get Back to us for more details .

Williams Brown

Director of International Fraud Division

Telephone 206-202-0037

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam