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Fake Agencies and Organizations - How to
Recognize Them and How to Report Them:
Universal Youth Focus Organization
Have you received a phone call from Florentyna Nixon at Universal Youth Focus Organization, asking you "to attend or join me in this conference to be held in California Universal City and Senegal Dakar West Africa". Beware!
Our investigation shows that this is may be a scam.
The name given was "Florentyna Nixon". Remember that these names may be made up, or
them names of real people who are unaffiliated with the scam!
Read below for example of the scam and the results of our investigation.
Dearest friend,
Thanks for your concern, I am very pleased for your interest to attend or
join me in this conference to be held in California Universal City and
Senegal Dakar West Africa. Although your nature of activities might deprive
you of attending. You don’t need any invitation letter for visa approval if
only the organization will accept your attendance.
The main reason of this conference is to teach people how to help reduce
Racism as a force behind terrorism, violence, discrimination , among
religion, friends and youths, also eradicate terrorism worldwide on 1st to
4th December 2007 in USA. The issues to be discuss in the second conference
in Africa on 6th to 10th December 2007 are, HIV / AIDS and Force Labor among
youth's of the world.
I believe that it is God who has made us to meet in this golden
opportunity in period like this. It will be so kind of you to take a little
time out of your busy schedule to attend the conference. If it would please
you to attend the event, then contact the
Organization through this email address
uyfocus@usa.com and
http://www.orgsites.com/ca/universalyouthfocus / for more information,
contact them immediately to avoid any delay.
The organization is a non profit organization and its independent donors
who will take care of all the invited participants expenses including flight
tickets from the participant home country or country of residence to US and
from US to Dakar Senegal and back to the participant home country or country
of residence, accommodation and feeding through out the participants stay
for the conference in the United States.
The organization will have to process the visas for all the invited
participants who requires entry visa to the United States and Dakar Senegal.
Participants will only responsible for the payment expenses of the hotel
reservation booking for accommodation in one of the chosen hotel in Dakar by
the organization during the other event in Senegal. I have invited you to be
the principal representative of your country during this conference. Please
contact the conferences secretary for more details information on
registration, procedures and inform her that I (Florentyna Nixon)
recommended you. Do this as soon as possible to enable the organizing
committee to process all your documents and forwarded to U.S Bureau
Immigrant Affairs for visa approval.
Remember any individual, group or organization that need entry visa to US
or Senegal have to summit their requirements in time for visa assistance. I
truly hope to see you there for the conference always contact me if
necessary.
Thanks.
Yours lovingly
FLORA
Results of our investigation
- Searching in Google for "Universal Youth Focus Organization" turns up
ONLY reports of scams and the "organization's" website. No other
organization nor website mentions them or has heard of them.
- The "Universal Youth Focus Organization" is merely several free pages on
a free organization website. Apparently the owners of that website do
not vette or check up on the organizations that post there.
- The address of the venue is given as: 111 North Post Oak Lane, Fort
Lauderdale Beach, CA. This address does not exist, and appears to be
constructed: 111 North Post Oak Lane is the street address of the
Houstonian Hotel in Texas. Fort Lauderdale is a beachfront city in
Florida, there is no city with that name in California.
- The area codes of the phone numbers given for contact are in Idaho and
the fax number is in west Texas.
- There is no consistency among the photographs. They appear to be
taken from different events, different people, different times, and
different types of events. Notice the type of clothing, the equipment.
- There is no date given for the event and the event calendar is empty,
going both forward and backward in time.
- There is no physical address given for the organization.
The evidence clearly suggests this is a scam!
How to Report a Fraudulent Organization, Agency or Business Proposal
In the United States contact:
U.S. Secret Service
Financial Crimes Division
1800 G Street, NW
Room 942
Washington, DC 20223
Phone: (202) 435–5850
Fax: (202) 435–5031
Or contact the local U.S. Secret Service Field Office.
Overseas
Contact the Foreign Commercial Service (FSC) at the nearest U.S.
Embassy or Consulate. If there is no FCS office, contact the American Citizens
Services Unit of the Consular Section or the Regional Security Office.
For a comprehensive list
of national and international agencies to report scams, see this page.
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