419 scam: "UNDP | United Nations Development Programme"<inf@yahoo.com> UNDP

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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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- mr.john_emma@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UNDP | United Nations Development Programme" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.john_emma@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:35:22 +0200
Subject: UNDP | United Nations Development Programme

UNDP | United Nations Development Programme

Organization South Africa

Attn,

How are you today well we got your reply and it is very well understood.

The United Nations has decided to pay you $850,000.00 THOUSAND (Eight Hundred fifty Thousand Dollars) each.

You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payment of your $850,000.00 THOUSAND compensation funds.

We have been having a meeting for the past Seven months which ended Three days ago with the former secretary to the UNITED NATIONS in
the person of Mr. Kofi Anna.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed or extorted money from because of your contract payment execution in any part of the world, the UNITED
NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with a ATM CARD of the sum of $850,000.00 THOUSAND 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 or irregularities etc.
We found your email in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed by the United Nations Board of Directors
and Trustees.

You are also advice to get back to us as soon as you get this email so we can be able to start processing your ATM CARD with the information you sent to us thank you.
mr.john_emma@yahoo.com

Sincerely,

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