An Email with the Subject "UNITED NATION, SCAMMED VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENT(S)." was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:44:28 -0800 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "United Nations Information Center" <svcpun@gmail.com>.
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UNITED NATIONS-INFORMATION-CENTERS
United Nations Information Center
17 Kingsway Road, Ikoyi
Post Office Box 1068
Lagos, Nigeria,
Attention: Sir/Madam
This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations To HONG LEONG BANK OF
HONG KONG to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scammed victims US$2,500,000 USD (Two Million and Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the
scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to us as soon as possible for the immediate
payments of your compensations benefit.
On this faithful recommendations, want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at
Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by the rest of the world in the meetings on the lose of
funds by various foreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today.
In other to retain the good image of the country, the President of the Country is now paying 100
victims of these operators $2.500.000:00 USD each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations. Due
to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the payments are to be paid by HONG
LEONG BANK OF HONG KONG as affiliate paying bank under funding assistance by The WORLD BANK for
funds remittance.
Victims include every foreign contractors/inheritor that may have not received their contract sum,
people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to
change in Government policies, people involved in check, bank draft, credit card and similar scams,
Consignment Scam and had lost their hard earned funds in the past. We found your name in our list
and this is the reason we are contacting you. Our investigation showed that you truly lost money to
scammers in the past and your name had been approved as one of the beneficiaries.
According to the number of applicants at hand, 75 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims
are from the United States, and we still have more 25 left to be paid the compensations of
US$2,500,000:00 each. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested in
Lagos, Nigeria as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate
or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already
on trace of the criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended. Other victims who have
not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.
Please note, if you had changed your legal name, send to this office your new name with official
proof. Also reconfirm to this office your Mailing address to receive the fund. Your Compensation
benefit will be remitted by the aforementioned bank above. I shall feed you with further modalities
as soon as I hear from you.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Charles Nosa Osazuwa.
Officer-in-Charge