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Saturday, December 27, 2008

UN-HABITAT

 

Fraud. This is fraud offering to compensate fraud victims. It would be funny if it wasn't so crooked.

One out of five!

Good Day,

After several attempt to reach you via phone, I deemed it necessary and urgent to contact you with your email and to notify you finally about the outstanding settlement of your compensation which is being given out by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. This compensation is being made to all the victims that have lost their money through any online transaction as a result of Scam activity. It has come to our notice that many of you have lost your money by falling victim to some internet fraudsters.

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote humanly, socially and environmentally with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.

As a result of this scam activities spreading over the internet, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT have decided to get details of most victims who were previously scammed by these fraudsters. This Human Settlements Programme is design to compensate every one of you with the sum of $500,000.00 to help settle all your debts and start a new business.
We have concluded all the necessary arrangements towards the release of your settlement Check sum of $500,000.00 USD with the financial committee of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme in collaboration with the United Parcel Service Nigeria LTD (UPS), to pay Delivery the check sum of $500,000.00 USD, with your settlement Ref No: UN013-0156/UPS-un-habitat to you, prior to your co-operation with them.

You are therefore to contact the United Parcel Service Nigeria LTD (UPS), with the below information in order to claim your settlement.

You are advise to send your postal address which will enable the UPS COURIER for safe delivery.
Name, Address, city, State, Country, Telephone Number. This is neccessary for safe processing of your compensation check.

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United Parcel Service Nigeria LTD
Plot 781 Emeka Anyaoku Street
Area Eleven Garki
FCT-Abuja
Nigeria.
Tel: +234-705-574-5609
Email: ups.ngcustomerservice@8u8.com

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Accept our regards.
Healy Tana
UN-HABITAT Information Office

Important Notes :-

1. Whatever you do, do not respond to any e-mail like this. If you have given bank details to any fraudster like this, then inform your bank immediately and also make sure that you close the account.

2. If the e-mail mentions a well known e-mail address such as from gmail.com, live.com, yahoo.com etc., then why not forward the offending e-mail to abuse@gmail.com, abuse@live.com etc. Hopefully, they'll remove the e-mail address, which will stop people being sucked in.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I used to forward these emails to the reply to address abuse@yahoo.com etc. I get at least 2 of these emails per day. I even got a text message from a fake construction company claiming to have done work for a police department. Needless to say. The only way to avoid getting scammed is to delete them or as I've been doing lately is pulling full headers and sending them to Un-Habitat, being one example. There has to be a better way. The email providers need to establish a better spam system as in the do not call registry.

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