419 scam: "BEN UMAR" <ali@ype.com.my> we need your help urgently

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "the consignment" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "trunk box" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "consignment " (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- benumarbenumar@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "BEN UMAR" <ali@ype.com.my>
Reply-To: benumarbenumar@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 20:38:22 +0800
Subject: we need your help urgently

Hello sir,
Is my pleasure for writing you this letter, hope you are fine? I want
to use this opportunity to introduce myself well to you, I am Ben
Umar,The son of a late Chief Agyman Umar of D R CONGO, I came to know
you in the course of my search for a reliable and God fearing partner
and I decide to contact you because I believe you are a reputable
person and i felt you can help us over this confidential matter.I
count on your integrity and honesty to be able to handle this
business. I have a Trunk box that contain $5.7 million U.S DOLLARS
which is already on transit.
The consignment is right now on transit in your country , my Late
father business partner Mrs.Juliet Ottlete, who was suppose to
receive this consignment containing the money was asking for 50% which
I and my mother did not agree on for any reason,that is why we have
to stop the delivery to her immediately.We are ready to give you 20%
from the total money because that was the initial agreement we had
with my late father partner, Mrs.Juliet Ottlete before she later
change her mind because of her greed which is the reason why we had
to stop the delivery to her,so we need you to stand as my family
trustee to receive the consignment in our behalf .please If you are
willing to help us receive this consignment, all you just have to do
is to contact the shipping company here in Ghana so that they can
give you instruction to their agent holding the consignment on
transit to deliver to you. Please reply my mail so that I can give
you the contact of the shipping company to discuss with them in
delivery to you and all you just have to do for us is to receive this
consignment and you open different Bank account in Europe and lodge
the money in ,thereafter you can help help to come over in your
country seek us asylum and buy us a house so that we can live freely
without molest ions. And that reminds me the shipping company does
not know the content of the box, because it was deposited as a family
treasure.
Regards,
Ben Umar
For the family
pls reply here :benumarbenumar@gmail.com

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