This is a new e-mail scam using the identity of the United Nations to ‘hook’ the naïve and unwary. Note the grammar errors and that the supposed bank person is in NIGERIA—Scam Capital of the World!

Attention:

This mail serves as a listening ear to the victims of scam the world over.

We have been having a meeting for the past 7 months which ended 2 days ago with the secretary general of the United Nations Organization.

This message is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of

the world, the United Nations have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$500,000. This includes every foreign contractors that may not have received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems etc.

We have a database of victims and that is why we are contacting you,

this has been deliberated upon and is among our set of priorities

in making the world a better place.

You are advised to contact Mr. Jim Ovia of ZENITH BANK PLC, as

he is our representative in Nigeria, contact him immediately for your

Cheque / International Bank Draft of USD$500,000. This funds are in

Bank Draft for security purpose. It will be sent to you and you

can clear it in any bank of your choice.

Therefore, you should send him your full Name, telephone number, a

valid mailing address where you want him to send your Bank Draft to.

Contact Mr. Jim Ovia immediately for your Cheque:

Person to Contact: Mr. Jim Ovia

Email: unitednationoffer@rocketmail.com

*Making the world a better place*

Regards,

Department of Public Information, United Nations 2009

TWO TYPICAL E-MAIL SCAMS ARE SHOWN BELOW. THE FIRST SCAM HAS A DUAL PURPOSE: TO COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND TO STEAL YOUR MONEY. ANY CHECKS OR MONEY ORDERS DEPOSITED FROM THIS SOURCE WILL BE EITHER FORGERIES OR NSF. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MONEY AND MAY EVEN BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES. YOUR BANK ACCOUNT WILL ALSO END UP BEING CLOSED. IF THIS SCAMMER FINDS ONE SUCKER FROM EVERY 100 E-MAILS HE SEND OUT, HE WILL BE AHEAD FINANCIALLY.

NEVER RESPOND TO THIS TYPE OF E-MAIL OFFER. IT IS NOT REAL!!

Good tidings to you as you read.

Please permit me to write you irrespective of the fact we have not met before.

I got your contact through network online hence I decided to write you. I would be very interested in offering you a part-time paying job in which you could earn up to $7,000 a month as extra income. Opening an account would have been my best choice if I was not working on a deadline that must meet a 24 hour turn around time, other options are not on my side due to time, money, and requirements.

This is why I am offering a part time opportunity to someone responsible who can supply prompt assistant and service.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Work as my payment assistant in charge of collecting and processing the payments from the associates.

1. Receive payment (inform of money orders/checks) from my Clients/Associates.

2. Cash the Payments at your Bank

3. Deduct 10%, which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed.

4. You will then forward the balance via Western Union Money Transfer according to my instruction.

REQUIREMENT:

18 years or older.

Responsible, Reliable and Trustworthy

Available to work a minimum 3-4 hours per week.

Able to check and respond to emails often.

Easy telephone access.

IS THIS LEGAL? YES

It is very legal, Doing this job is 100% safe and legal. I would be glad if you accept my proposal for an opportunity to make up 10% of each transaction completed.

YOU WOULD BE REQUIRED TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

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HAVE YOU HANDLED LARGE FUNDS, HOW MUCH AND HOW SUCCESSFULLY?

Please reply via email with complete information as requested:

A. NAME:

B. STREET ADDRESS (NOT P.O BOX):

C. CITY:

D. STATE:

E. ZIP CODE:

F. COUNTRY:

G. MOBILE NUMBER:

H. AGE:

I. SEX:

J. OCCUPATION:

K. E MAIL:

All replies should be sent to: dr.collins.smith@gmail.com

Regards,

Dr Collins Smith.

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HERE IS ANOTHER SCAM OUT OF NIGERIA WHICH MANY CONSIDER ‘WORLD SCAMMER HEADQUARTERS’. IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. TO RESPOND TO THIS WOULD BE A SERIOUS MISTAKE INDEED! NOTE THE TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND POOR GRAMMAR IN THIS E-MAIL MESSAGE

Bank of Englan/UNITED NATIONS 2009 COMPENSATION

From Foreign Payment Director,

Barclays Bank of London.

Mr. Ronald Mark

E-mail {compensationoff_0@live.com}

ATTN: SCAMMED VICTIM/ 1 MILLION BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654 1 MILLION USD.

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations to Barclays Bank of London to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $1 Million each, you are listed and approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims, get back to us as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $1 Million compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, I want you to know that during the last UN meetings held at London, England, 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 British Prime Minister is now paying 100 victims of this operators $1 Million USD each this is because British is the father of Nigeria since they are the colonel father and they gave Nigeria independent, Due to the corrupt and inefficient banking systems in Nigeria, the payments are to be paid by Barclays Bank as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by the Bank of England.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 80 beneficiaries has been paid ,half of the victims are from the United States, we still have more 20 left to be paid the compensations of $1 Million 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, the US secret service is already on trace of the criminal.

For more vital information, please

visit:http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/news1jul.htm.

You can receive your compensations payments via any of the both options you choose, DRAFT, PAYMENTS or WIRE TRANSFERS, I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you at my private email address :

{compensationoff_0@live.com}

Yours faithfully,

Ronald Mark

This is an attempt to extract your personal information via e-mail. While it seems to be legitimate, Bank of America never request that you send this kind of information via e-mail or sends e-mail notifications of this type. 8/19/2009 7:13 PM

Dear Valued Customer :

We recently have determined that different computers have logged in your Bank of America Online Banking account, and multiple password failures were present before the logons. We now need you to re-confirm your account information to us. If this is not completed by September 1, 2009, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner. In order to confirm your Online Bank records, we may require some specific information from you.

To restore your account, please Sign in to Online Banking.thank you for using Bank Of America Online Service.

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Your account might be place on restricted status. Restricted accounts continue to receive payments, but they are limited in their ability to send or withdraw funds. To lift up this restriction, you need to login into your account (with your username or SSN and your password), then you have to complete our verification process. You must confirm your credit card details and your billing information as well. All restricted accounts have their billing information unconfirmed, meaning that you may no longer send money from your account until you have reactive your billing information on file. Sign in to Online Banking
Thank You.

Please do not reply to this message. If you have any questions about the information in this e-Bill, please contact your biller. For all other questions, call us at 800-887-5749.

Bank of America, N.A. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender
© 2009 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved

JOB SEEKERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT A RECENT DISPATCHER’S POSITION ADVERTISED ON CRAIG’S LIST IS A SCAM. THE COMPANY IS LEGITIMATE (N. Brown Group, PLC) BUT THAT’S WHERE ANY LEGITIMACY ENDS.  IF YOU RESPOND TO THIS AD, THE E-MAIL BELOW IS WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE. THE NOTICE IN RED THAT FOLLOWS WAS SENT TO THE COMPANY TO ALERT THEM TO THIS SCAM IN THEIR NAME:

N Brown Group plc

Griffin House,

40 Lever Street,

Manchester,

M60 6ES,

United Kingdom.

Dear Applicant,

We received your application for the job posted on Craig’s List website.

Thank you for your interest in a position with N Brown Group plc. Our

HR managers have gone through your resume and you have been short

listed for the offer pending final approval. Your reference number is

A116.

Our central Head Office is home to our Marketing, Merchandising,

Finance, IT, and Human Resources. Our Warehousing and Distribution

operations (Fulfilment Logistics) are based at our sites in the Oldham

and Glossop area. Our Customer Service team is based at our new

contact centre, Martin House within the MEN Arena. In addition to Home

Shopping we have a Financial Services Division, First Financial, who

market and sell a range of Financial Products.

N Brown Group plc is a trading style of J D Williams & Company

Limited, the UK’s leading direct home shopping company, operating over

20 successful catalogue brands. Our catalogues offer a huge selection

of Art, Educational materials, clothing and other products for all

ages and sizes.

All our clothes are designed to provide the best fit

at the best value, and we are specialists in the area of larger size

womenswear.

The company was founded in 1875 by James David Williams, who in 1882

was the first to make use of the UK ‘s parcel post service, to send

his company’s products direct to his customers. The formula of

providing quality, fashionable, value for money clothing direct to

customers proved increasingly popular towards the latter end of the

20th Century and J D Williams enjoyed significant growth. This

continuing growth has ensured J D Williams is the most successful

direct home shopping company in the UK today, with over 2 million

customers and 4,000 employees. For more information about us, please

visit www.nbrown.co.uk

Our Mission

We are expanding to the United States, so we want to reach out to

people in the United States and advertise our new product by

distributing the company’s catalogs to individual, offices, private

and public places. Successful candidates will work either weekdays or

weekends depending on choice and get paid weekly

Job Description

Our duties is to help them manage their finance, see to their daily

spending, pay bills sometimes on their behalf & send out checks on

their behalf. Your own job is to print out the checks whenever we need

you to print it online and drop them off for shipping. We’ll give your

a procedure to set up the online account which you’re going to use for

the printing whenever you need to work. We’ll also provide you the

courier shipping labels (UPS SERVICE) for the drop off of the

check. Below are materials you need to set up to get started as soon as

possible.

*Magnetic Versa Ink

*Versa Printer (Not needed if you have a printer at home already)

*Business size check Paper

*http://www.avanquestusa.com/ check_writing/default.asptr1=

AQ_US_PP_GO_CKS&gclid= CIvB9pTo7JQCFQqdnAod3w1Arg  (Checksoft 2009

Platinum (Premier) ) Version to download

This are what you need to get ready in order to get started. We

understand you will need to pay for all this material, kindly do so and

let us know much it cost you to get everything set up so that you can

have your money back. Concerning your pay per week, we’re offering you

$700 per week for a start & we’ll increase it later in the future

depending on how reliable, dependable and hard working you’re.Your

salary will be sending to you  via western union money transfer or

Money gram money transfer

Your Responsibilities:

* You must be efficient

* Applicant must be self motivated

Compensation

You will be paid $700 per week.

At this time, we will like to know how often you get on the internet

because our job requires much checking of your e-mail.

Await your immediate response

Regards,

Mr. James Scott

Personnel Manager

N Brown Group plc

www.nbrown.co.uk

Company Reg Number: 814103

VAT Reg Number: 148 8796 03

Tel: +442086918225

Fax: +442087112636

The attached e-mail is being disseminated in the USA in response to inquiries from an ad on Craig’s List offering a $700/week dispatcher’s job. It is obviously a scam in your name and using the credibility of your beautiful website. I suspect that their telephone response # is in fact a cell phone. You can read more about this scam at: www.scam.com. The e-mail below is what was sent to me following a e-mail to their ad asking only, “where are you located?”

Intelligence Note

Prepared by the Internet Crime

Complaint Center (IC3 )
Work-At-Home Scams
Consumers need to be vigilant when seeking employment on-line.

The IC3 continues to receive numerous complaints from individuals who have fallen

victim to work-at-home scams.

Victims are often hired to “process payments”, “transfer funds” or “reship products.”

These job scams involve the victims receiving and cashing fraudulent checks, transferring

illegally obtained funds for the criminals, or receiving stolen merchandise and

shipping it to the criminals.

Other victims sign up to be a “mystery shopper”, receiving fraudulent checks with

instructions to cash the checks and wire the funds to “test” a company’s services.

Victims are told they will be compensated with a portion of the merchandise or funds.

Work-at-home schemes attract otherwise innocent individuals, causing them to become

part of criminal schemes without realizing they are engaging in illegal behavior.

Job scams often provide criminals the opportunity to commit identity theft when

victims provide their personal information, sometimes even bank account information

to their potential “employer.” The criminal/employer can then use the victim’s information to open credit cards, post on-line auctions, register Web sites, etc., in the victim’s name to commit additional crimes.

If you have been a victim of Internet crime, please file a complaint at

http://www.IC3.gov.