Fake United Nations International Monetary Fund EMail
A Pretty Face
Design is important. Whether we’re talking web sites or kitchens or cars or emails, the way something appears greatly influences our first impressions, and our expectations. This scam email gets that part right, but looking inside,past the fresh new face, we find the same mistakes, the same play on our assumed greed. Follow along, and remember, Scam Flags are in BOLD. I’ve broken it up into 3 sections, with my comments in between…
THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION
In Conjunction with the International Monetary Fund
OHCHR, Dalais Wilson, CH 1211 Geneva 10,Switzerland
Senior Human Rights Officer and international payment departmentDate: 30 /05/08
Kind Attn: Beneficiary with African and European CountriesIMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT WITH AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Sequel to the meeting we have with all the African country leaders regards to all the payment been owed by the Africa and Europe continents, the Chairman African Union (AU) with that of European Union (EU) have made it known to all the beneficiaries been owed by African and European countries via contract, inheritance, Lottery Winners, during There recent interview with British broadcasting co-operation (BBC) that all the debt been owed by the African and European countries should be paid to them via EU / AU account with the supervision of the International Monetary Fund Unit London UK, which you happened to be one of them.
Wow. That last paragraph is one long sentence. Any time I see that I know I’m dealing with a scammer. Not to mention all the little grammar errors tucked away in everything. From missing caps to misspelled words, these people haven’t got a clue how to write english.
You are advice to stop any further communication with anybdy and contact this office, The International Monetary Fund Unit London UK which the officer in-charge is
Mr. Anthony G. Leach
Email: unitednationorga@europemail.com
Tel +44 702 4099344
Fax: +44 870 9134316,
Your above fund has been deposited in your account stated below which was submitted to this office by your representative.
Some petitions we received made it known to us that some beneficiaries have loose all they have achieve in the life time due to the way African and European countries are asking them to pay one charge or the other in regards of their payment.Be inform that your payment has been transfer into your account provided by your representative Mrs. Susan Wang below.
HSBC NINBO BRANCH CHINA
ACCOUNT NO 90887224091149
ACCOUNT NAME SUSAN WANG
ROUTING NO 64585783
SWIFT CODE: HSBC166349XT,
Here we find the typical strong advice to only talk to these guys about everything. I especially like the part about how some people are having to pay for the recovery of their lost cash, a direct reference to the tactics of many of these fake emails. And these guys seem to have a neat little twist: there’s evidently already an account set up by your agent with the money already transferred. All you have to do is claim it. I’m sure if you checked, they would tell you that yes, the cash is there and it’s all yours. All you have to do is contact this guy at the IMF who handles everything. The IMF, Monetary Fund for the Earth. But not enough money for this guy to use an IMF email address.
Please contact Mr. Anthony G. Leach immediately for the collection of your International Transfer Payment Advice (Payment Slip Or Telex Copy) to enable you confirm your payment in your account without further delay, he is the only authorized officer in International monitoring fund unit London UK to handle and witness your payment, any other further communication you have out side his office is at your own risk, and you are advice to stop making any further payment to any one without Mr Anthony G. Leach notice because he is the only authorize officer with International Monetary Fund unit London UK via African Union (AU) reserve account under united nations payment gazette .
We apologies to you and your company or family for what it might has cost you in the past without receiving your payment upon the charges and taxes you have paid before.
Get back to us immediately you confirmed your payment in your account to enable us close your payment file with us.
Best regards
Mr. Frej Fenniche,Senior Human Rights Officer united nations Switzerlan
Email: uonf@mailpanda.com
And yet another epic length sentence. Here’s a hint: if you start feeling lost in the middle and starting over doesn’t help, the sentence is too long. But that’s not all. Besides being wrong about where the UN is located (not Switzerland), they even spelled it wrong. Other than that, more butchering of the english language, confusion with verbs, sentence structure and a completely different email address finish it out as a monumental failure. Still, I thought it needed to be published. Why?
The formatting was superb. There were 2 fonts used, both very common in business style communications. There were 3 font colors, which were used resonably well. The header was simple and effective, centered perfectly at the top. The entire email was presented very professionally, with bullet sized paragraphs, and even though the grammar was full of errors, the content was presented in an understandable way.
In other words, at least at some level, this thing worked. Don’t fall for it. Even if I found no holes in it grammatically, I would know it was a fake. How? Ask yourself: Who is Susan Wang? And why is there a Chinese bank involved in a joint venture between the AU and the EU? And since when did you actually lose anything to these scammers that anybody would ever repay you for? Do they really owe you any money?
I am Jon, and sometimes I just resort to common sense.
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so i take it i did not win 1.5 million!to bad where do i report this? also i think you should put the fraud warning at the top of your listed sites
Comment by Doug wade | November 12, 2008 (4 weeks ago)
i recieved an e-mail,from the IMF that i won a certain amount of money but up till today i have not heard from them iwant to know if it is true
Comment by chukwu nicholas | November 23, 2008 (2 weeks ago)
I sincerely doubt it.
Comment by Jon | November 24, 2008 (2 weeks ago)
This is the latest e-mail I received. I might add that this scam has been going on for over 12 months. Everytime I get contacted by apperently different person from a different bank and everytime they ask for money to be sent to them. When that doesn’t happen somebody else wants to help me claim this fund. What you think?
From the Desk of: Mr. Charles Wyplosz, Regional Office for International Monetary Fund 142-146 Stoke Newington High Street , London , United Kingdom . WE THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND, wishes to inform you that this is not a child play, we are ready to take you to any length if you failed to proof the legitimate of the fund you are about to receive. As a Federal Commission we are here to protect your interest and the interest of United Kingdom Citizens, and the United State citizens as well as this great Nation. You have been investigated as the beneficiary of the said funds that is why you are in touch with the IMF for a solid proof before the funds will be release to you.
The said funds is now in our custody in your name which has been placed on hold under the custody of the IMF for further verification and proof before releasing the fund to you.
You do not have this document in your files, if you do the fund would not have been place on hold. We did not believe this at first, but when we saw the transfer we had no option than to intercept it and inform you.
We have gone through your Identification record and also the information received from you, we have verified a lot of things about you. It has come to the attention of our Money Trafficking investigation department, that you have some funds valued at U.S $ 22 Million to your name.
With full concern of The IMF and the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) wish to remind you of the consequences of remitting such huge sums of money without complying fully with the provisions of the Financial and Allied Matters Decree 5 as amended in sub-section C (6) of 2003, which stipulates that any monitory transaction been done in the United Kingdom and the United States Of America, must have proper records, which duly guarantees and covers the transaction as legitimate and legally acquired and not criminally or terrorist associated funds. This is due to ongoing terrorist activities/economic crimes on and against the United Kingdom and the United States of America citizens.
Note that with the information’s we have here, the fund in your name here was release from Natwest Bank. To this regard you are to contact the Uk Ministry Of Finance, they will issue you the required document because they are the only people that can issue you the document. Nobody else have the right or privilege to issue you this document unless the Uk Ministry Of Finance.
You are under an observational /Investigation in connection with money laundering. If your funds comes from a legitimate and legal source, the proper guidelines for you to recover the right of transaction is for you to provide the official monitory transaction release document so that your funds will be legally processed and recorded and accounted for and then finally released to you.
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONEY LAUNDERING DEPARTMENT) IS HERE to wipe out terrorism, and will stop at no length in doing our duty for the United Kingdom and American people.
You do not have any rights to receive these funds if the documented legal wire information is not complete.
It have come to our notice that you have been dealing with scammers regarding the present transaction in your name, with the power imposed on us as a high Federal Commission, you are hereby warn and instruction to terminate your involvement with any people or individual contacting you regarding this present transaction. The said funds is now in our custody in your name as the beneficiary, your dealings should be channel to this office alone, if we find out you are still communicating with Imposters you will be charge for advance fraud communication by the Federal Law.
We currently have jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal law. So you can see that we can track you down through Investigative programs. We have your address and the evidence and status of your wired funds, so we can arrest you anytime anywhere.
We have done our verification on your FBI Identification Record with our Social Security Number, the only document left is the Origin Of Fund Certificate. Which should be issue to you from the Uk Ministry Of Finance.
On this email:ukfundclearanceagency@yahoo.co.uk
NOTE: We have asked for the above documents to make available the most complete and up-to date records possible for no criminal justice purposes.
WARNING: failure to produce the above requirement in the next 72 hours, legal action will be taken immediately by arresting and detaining you, justificated and if found guilty, you will be jailed…… As terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering is a serious problem in our community today. The IMF will not stop at any length in tracking down and prosecuting any criminal who indulge in this criminal act. FORWARD THE DOCUMENT TO US VIA EMAIL ATTACHEMENT AS SOON AS YOU OBTAINS IT.
Sincerely Mr. Charles Wyplosz Director of the International Center of Monetary and Banking(DOICMB) London , United Kingdom
Comment by Adis | November 24, 2008 (2 weeks ago)
I haven’t seen that one yet. Thanks for sharing it with us here.
As always, the key to understanding that these types of things are fraud, what I call ‘fake emails’, is to just think for a moment.
If it sounds too good to be true, you can be certain that it IS NOT TRUE. These scammers are counting on two things: Greed and Fear.
Be rational. Think about it. Would the IMF use a Yahoo email address in the UK? Of course not.
The surest way to determine whether something like this, which pretends to be from the IMF, is to look at their grammar. Maybe you didn’t do so well in school, but you know proper English when you hear it.
Read it aloud, or have someone read it aloud to you. Look at the sentence there at the end. In that sentence alone there is a misspelled word and a bad verb disagreement. Reading it aloud makes it obvious.
The IMF would not make such obvious mistakes.
Thanks again for contributing. You may have helped someone else avoid the scam you discovered.
Comment by Jon | November 24, 2008 (2 weeks ago)