419 scam: "UNITED NATIONS" <unitedn53@gmail.com> CONTACT APEX COURIER COMPANY FOR YOUR PACKAGE

joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days

Home

About Us

Spam

419/Nigeria

Fraud

Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "million us dollars" (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)
- "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
- "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +22968007348 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
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.
- impexbankplc@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "UNITED NATIONS" <unitedn53@gmail.com>
Reply-To: impexbankplc@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 05:23:30 -0600
Subject: CONTACT APEX COURIER COMPANY FOR YOUR PACKAGE

Good Day to you dear friend.
This is to bring to your notice that I have paid for the delivery of YOUR
PAYMENT SLIP WITH YOUR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER PIN AND YOUR TRANSFER
ACCESS CODE TAC that you need to receive and present to your bank so that your
$3.5 million us dollars will be paid to you by your bank.

Please remember that i paid this fee because the PAYMENT SLIP has just a week
and 4 days to be cancel by the head office in New York and when they cancel
YOUR PAYMENT SLIP WITH YOUR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER PIN AND YOUR
TRANSFER ACCESS CODE T.A.C ,the money will go into Government purse.

With that I decided to help you pay the money so that,YOUR PAYMENT SLIP will
not be cancel,because I know when you cash your funds definitely you must pay
me my money back and even compensate me for helping you.

Now i want you to contact Apex Courier Company with your Full Contact
information so that they can deliver YOUR PAYMENT SLIP WITH YOUR PERSONAL
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER PIN AND YOUR TRANSFER ACCESS CODE T.A.C to your
designated address without any delay.
Like i stated earlier, The delivery charges has been paid but i did not pay
their official keeping fees since they refused. They refused and the reason is
that they do not know when you are going to contact them and discourage might
be increase and high.

They told me that their keeping fees is $29.00 usd per day and i deposited it
yesterday 19/ 02/ 2016 i did not contact you yesterday because i has low
connection as a result of rain fall. Bellow is the full contact information of
the company,

Mr OJEMBA UGUEZE Address: Avenue Stermetz Rue 6209 DHL Op,office Cotonou,
Benin Republic.
E-mails;(impexbankplc@gmail.com) -(Apexdeliverycompany@pacificwest.com)

TELEPHONE :+229-68007348
Contact Today to avoid increase of their keeping fees and let me know once you
receive YOUR PAYMENT SLIP WITH YOUR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER PIN AND
YOUR TRANSFER ACCESS CODE TAC SO THAT WE SHOULD LAUGH LAST OK.
CONGRATULATIONS.
YOURS IN SERVICE BARR IDU IME
MINISTRY OF FINANCE BENIN REPUBLIC.

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam