How To Identify Scams

Received an interesting email today titled " For all the scammed victims " from this email address: UnitedNN@seagreen.ocn.ne.jp Interestingly, the email is being sent to compensation@un.org but somehow I got it.. Yay! I am going to be compensated for being scammed... NOT! Anyway, the email goes like this: This is HTML source of message you composed. Do not modify here. To modify this message press HTML Messages Editor button. The United Nations Headquarters, New York United Nations Compensation Unit, In Affiliation with World Bank Our Ref: U.N/WBO/042UK/2012.     Congratulations Beneficiary,   How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family? You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a meeting for the past 7 months which just ended few days ago with the secretary to the UNITED NATIONS. This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS in Affiliation ...

Today, I received an interesting email.. Correction, I got TWO pieces of the same email... From FEDEX at different timings.. or so it claimed with it bogus sounding email adresss called fedex@delivering.com And the email went like this:  Dear Customer! We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmed Package that is registered with us for shipping to your residential location. We had thought that your sender gave you our contact details. It may interest you to know that a letter is also added to your package. However, we cannot quote its content to you via email for privacy reasons. We understand that the content of your package itself is a Bank Draft worth of $250,000.00USD, FedEx do not ship money in CASH or in CHEQUES but Bank Drafts are Shippable. The package is registered with us for mailing by your colleague, and your colleague explained that he is from the United States but he is here in Nigeria for a three (3) months Surveying Project as h...