Mageed Yahia Sent Me An Email…

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My Email Communications / Phishing Email / phishing email without link or attachment

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by Sanjeev

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Apr 10, 2024

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Yesterday I received an email from a person claiming to be Mageed Yahia. He said that he is Director of Payment in the UN Foreign Office. I don't know what is UN Foreign Office, but let us leave it at that. What is interesting however is that though he claimed to be from UN, he used an email that had nothing to do with UN – nextage@nit.ne.jp. I fail to understand why UN personnel should be sending an official email from a .jp domain? A clear indication that it is a fake email phishing for information to defraud me.

In the email he informed me that my compensation/winning payment was approved today by the Board and Directors of the United Nation Committee on Rewards and Compensation. He did not tell me how much money I would be getting. My email communication with him is reproduced below. My comments on his email are in red.

Email from Mageed Yahia

From: Mageed Yahia <nextage@nit.ne.jp> UN personnel sending email from this email id?
Sent: Monday, April 8, 2024 9:07 PM
Subject: Attention: Beneficiary.</nextage@nit.ne.jp>

Attention: Beneficiary.

I am writing to inform you that your compensation/winning payment was approved today by the Board and Directors of the United Nation Committee on Rewards and Compensation.

You are therefore advised to reconfirm your details to enable the financial department to release your payment to you without delay. Thus, Reconfirm the following:

1.Your Full Name
2. Address:
3. Your Direct phone number:

We look forward to your prompt response via: mageedyahia@aliyun.com (In my experience, a phising email sender asks for reply on another email id. Not on the same email address from whcih the email has been sent. I wonder why? Also it is interesting to note that the reply email domain is aliyun.com – Alibaba Cloud, a Chinese company)

Thank you.
Mageed Yahia.
Director of Payment,
UN Foreign Office

My reply to Mageed Yahia

Dear Mr. Mageed Yahia

Thank you for your email informing me about approval of my compensation / winning payment having been approved by the Board of Directors of the United Nation Committee on Rewards and Compensation.

I don't know what this is for. I did not apply to the UN for any compensation. I also dod not participate in any competition. SO what is this for. Can you please highlight so that I can share my details.

best regards

Sanjeev Sharma

Let us now wait and see what reply I get.