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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Brian Jenkins <brianjenkin40@gmail.com>
Reply-To: brianjenkins165@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 04:29:40 +0800
Subject: Urgent reply

Hello,

My name is Mr. Brian Jenkins and i am an inspection Unit director here
in JFK international airport here in New York, City. During a routine
check on cargoed luggages, I discovered an abandoned shipment through
a diplomat from Britain which was not properly tagged and when scanned
it was revealed an undisclosed large sum of money in a Metal Trunk Box
weighing approximately 115kg.

From further investigation, I found out that the cargoed box was
abandoned because the Content was not properly declared by the
consignee before the authorities that it contained cash but rather it
was declared as personal effect obviously to avoid detection
considering that it came in as diplomatic cargo consignment. Moreso
the diplomat's inability to pay for the mandatory non-inspection fees
and other mandatory minor airport clearance charges as demanded by the
United States Customs officials on point of entry could have led him
to abandon the metal box.

On further check, we found out that the box contain more that $10M or
above and the consignment is still left in storage house till today
through a U.K registered shipping Company Courier, the dispatch
Service Limited a division of Trans Guard LTD. The Consignment is one
metal box with weight of about 115kg (Internal dimension: W61 x H156 x
D73 (cm) effective capacity: 680 L.) approximately.

The details of the consignment including your name, the official
document from the british shipping courier with your name tagged on
the metal trunk box.

Now I decided to contact you on a personal note and inquire If you
would want us to transact the delivery of this cargo to you for our
mutual benefit, you should provide the following information to me as
quickly as possible: your phone number, full address, to cross check
if it corresponds with the address on the official document including
the name of nearest airport to your city of residence and other
details. These details are required for the delivery of the cargo to
you and be rest assured that I am officially empowered to approve or
disapprove the delivery of the cargo to its beneficiary and i need an
assurance from you that as soon as i approve for the delivery, you
will be responsible for it's transportation to any of your given
residential or office addresses as the case may be.

Note that all communication must be held extremely confidential, I can
have everything concluded within 3 days upon your acceptance and
proceed to your address for delivery. But it must be on the condition
that you will give me 40% of the amount contained in the boxes. I want
us to transact this business and share the money before the end of
this month considering that the shippers have abandoned the box
containing the money and ran away.

I have plans to resign from work as soon as this deal pulls through
and i kindly demand for your strictest confidentiality henceforth
considering my official position here as a public servant.

I will furnish you with my full contact info asap.

Best Regards
Mr. Brian Jenkins
John F. Kennedy International Airport
New York,
NY 11430, United States

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