419 scam: ben Ki-moon. <b_kimoon945@hotmail.com> UN COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS UNIT.

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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:
- "economic and financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
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.
- customercarezenbk@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ben Ki-moon. <b_kimoon945@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <b_kimoon@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:06:13 +0000
Subject: UN COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS UNIT.

UN COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS UNIT.
REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 03354.
AMOUNT ; $2.550 Million USD.

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family, you may not understand why this mail came to you.

United
Nation have been having a meeting for the past 3 months which ended 23
June 2014 with the World Bank President Mr. Jim Yong Kim and the United
States Secretary of State Mr. John Kerry.

This email is to all
the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, and the
people that have lost their properties in the earthquakes and tsunami
United Nations and World Bank have agreed to compensate them with the
sum of US$2.550 Million (Two Million Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand
United States Dollars) each, 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 etc.

Your name and email was in the list
submitted by our Monitoring Team of Economic and Financial Crime
Commission observers and this is why we are contacting you, this have
been agreed upon and have been signed.

You are advised to
contact Mr.Mike Oboshi of Zenith Bank Nigeria Plc , as he is our
representative, contact him immediately for your Check/International
Bank Draft of USD$ 2.550 Million (Two Million Five Hundred and Fifty
Thousand United States Dollars) This funds are in a Bank Draft for
security purpose so he will send it to you and you can clear it in any
bank of your choice.

Therefore, you should send him your full
Name and telephone number with your correct mailing address, where you
want him to send the Draft to you.

Contact Mr.Mike Oboshi immediately for your ATM VISA CARD.
Person to Contact Mr.Mike Oboshi
Bank Name Zenith Bank Nigeria Plc
Contact him now on his direct Email: customercarezenbk@hotmail.com

Goodluck and kind regards,
Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary (UNITED NATIONS).
UN making the world a better place
http://www.un.org/sg/

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