419 scam: "BAN KI MOON"<sales@watanabhand.co.th> VICTIMS PAYMENT OF$1.5 MILLION USD FROM UNITED NATION!!!

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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:
- "hundred thousand united state dollars" (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)
- ",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 of america" (this email uses bad English)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
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.
- +2347015554517 (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.
- revmarkbless2013@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "BAN KI MOON" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <revmarkbless2013@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 14:20:50 -0800
Subject: VICTIMS PAYMENT OF$1.5 MILLION USD FROM UNITED NATION!!!

WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017, USA
YOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.

Greetings

We were authorized by the newly appointed United Nation Secretary General,
and the Governing body of the United Nations Debt Reconciliation Unit, to
investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment, recommended and approved
in your favor. During the course of our investigation, we discovered with
dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials
of the Bank and Government regulatory organs in Nigeria who are trying to
divert your funds into their private accounts.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED
NATIONS in HSBC To pay 50 victims from your country who has being Victims of
Internet scam .The United Nations has decided to pay you $1,500,000 USD (One
Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) each. You are listed and
approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this
amount in this Christmas period, get back to this office as soon as possible
for the immediate payment of your $1,500,000 USD 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.

This email is to 50 selected 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 the sum of $1.5
MILLON USD This includes every foreign contractors that may have not yet
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 from the WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME.

We sent you series of emails in this regards but you did not respond back to
us; However, in the course of our routine securitization into our Dispatch
Alert, we discovered that the document of your fund is intact and very much
available and we have attach the scan copy of your Atm Card along with this
email for you to view it before REV. MARK BLESS send it to you, For our
information, note that United Nations Board of Director have sign your Atm
Card in the favor of your name and hand it over to REV. MARK BLESS Chief
Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit to send it to you, you have to contact REV.
MARK BLESS in charge of your Atm Card, as he is our UNITED NATIONS
representative in UNITED STATE and AFRICA region, contact him immediately
for your Cheque $1.5.MILLION USD, This funds are in a Atm Card for security
purpose.

He will send it to you and you can clear it in any bank of your choice.
Contact information:

REV. MARK BLESS
Chief Protocol Officer,Dispatch Unit.
Email:revmarkbless2013@gmail.com
Direct Telephone line:+234 7015554517

As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide your
present address as below to the contact in other for the Officer to effect
the change and Re-direct the parcel to your home address.

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT

We expect your urgent attention to this email to enable us monitor this
payment effectively.

Most importantly you shall be requested to pay the sum of $110(Only) by REV.
MARK BLESS as the Delivery fee of your Atm Card. Once you contact the
Office, please request delivery option from him in other to avoid further
delay.

Sincerely yours,
Yours
Secretary-General United Nation
BAN KI MOON
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA

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