Finally, I just received some spam from an international organization that isn’t the United Nations. This time around, it’s from, apparently World Vision International. WVI is :
a Christian relief and development organisation working for the well being of all people, especially children. Through emergency relief, education, health care, economic development and promotion of justice, World Vision helps communities help themselves. Working on six continents, World Vision is one of the largest Christian relief and development organisations in the world.
So, pretty nice folk. Which makes me pretty steamed that someone would pretend to be them in order to, well, do something.
I won’t reproduce the full text of the spam email here, but you can read it all here. Basically its the same text as the "US Committee for the UN" and "UN Agency for Sustainable Growth". Even the fax number is the same area code, 206, which is apparently in Washington State somewhere.
The real World Vision has issued a spam allert on their website which explains what the whole scam is:
World Vision would like to inform applicants about individuals who are fraudulently claiming to be recruiters for World Vision, but are in no way affiliated with World Vision. These scam artists advertise high-paying jobs with World Vision that do not exist. “Successful” candidates are instructed to wire a “training” or “recruitment” fee, to an overseas bank account.
If you have received any of these fraudulent offers or advertisements, or if you are unsure about an offer of employment, please forward them to World Vision at emp_fraud@wvi.org. If you are in the U.S. and have received any of these recruitment emails or have otherwise been a victim of this scam, you can help World Vision by filing a report of the incident on the FBI’s Internet Fraud Complaint Center website at www.ic3.gov.
I’m off to do just that.
(This email was sent to me and
you [UN please check because I think this is a fraud)
From SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS APPROVED Sun Nov 25 10:54:08 2007
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WEMA BANK PLC
COMPENSATION OFFICE
WEMA BANK/ UNITED NATIONS 2007 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
ATTN: SIR/MADAM,
REF/PAYMENTS CODE: WBN/06654 $100,000 USD.
This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED
NATIONS in Central Bank to pay 150 victims of scam $100,000 USD (One
Hundred Thousand Dollars Only each).You are listed and approved
for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount,
get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate
payments of your $100,000 USD compensations funds.
On this faithful recommendations, I want you to know that during the
last
U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarming on the money lost
by various individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all
over the world today. In other to compensate victims, the UNITED
NATIONS
Body is now paying 150 victims $100,000 USD each in accordance with the
UNITED NATIONS recommendations. Due to the corrupt and inefficient
Banking Systems in Nigeria, the payments are to be paid by Central Bank
Nigeria as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by
BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
Benefactor of this compensation award will have to be first cleared and
recommended for payment by WEMA BANK PLC.
According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has
been
paid, over a half of the victims are from the United States, we still
have an outstanding of 36 scam victims left to be paid. Other victims
who
have not been contacted can submit their application with their
detailed
information as well today for scrutiny and possible consideration.
We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we get response
from
you with your full detail information as your full Name,Address,Age
,Direct
Phone Number and any of your Account Information on how you intend
receiving
your compensation payment.
Send a copy of your response and payment code to our remittance
officer:
NAME: DR.ADELE ADELEKE
SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE:
WBN/06654 $100,000 USD.
PHONE NUMBER:009 234-764-0530
+234 7640530
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Nancy Abiam
Dies ist ein großer Ort. Ich möchte hier noch einmal.