Scams: From Florentyna Nixon at Universal Youth Focus Organization

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.

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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

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Results of our investigation

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. The area codes of the phone numbers given for contact are in Idaho and the fax number is in west Texas.
5. 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.
6. There is no date given for the event and the event calendar is empty, going both forward and backward in time.
7. There is no physical address given for the organization.

The evidence clearly suggests this is a scam!

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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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