419 scam: "Chris Owen"<chris_owen@ufo.tc> Bussiness Partnership Offerourire Company For Your Consignment Of $3.6Musd9

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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:

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)
- "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)
- "million 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)
- "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Chris Owen" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <chris.owen@ufo.tc>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:33:06 -0700
Subject: Bussiness Partnership Offer

Attn: Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. Chris Owen, I am the chief Security officer of Global Securities UK, I have been working with this company for Over 11 years, by next three months, I will be leaving this company to start my own private business outside the United Kingdom.

The reason why I am contacting you is based on my findings of one of a Trunk Box that is in our security Vault, this Consignment had been there for over three years with nobody coming to claim it or even paying the demurrage, on one of my Routine checking I decided to secretly know what the content is and to my surprise it contains more than 6 Million Dollars and some diamond rings and house documents of two properties here in UK.

I had on my own investigated the owners where about and discovered that he died last two years of heart attack and no member of his family had knowledge of this Deposit with our Company, the client name is MR.ANTONIO FERNANDEZ am American citizen.

Right now, the rules and regulations of our Company states that any unclaimed Consignment after four years of its Deposit will be declared as the Company property, but I do not want this to take place hence I have found out of its content.

So I am contacting you to know if you will be interested to partner with me to secure this Consignment from my Company, I will detail you with all the information’s regarding this Deposit and how we will carry out this deal by presenting you as his next of kin.

Please do get back to me if you are interested on this deal with the following information’s.

(1) Full names and address

(2) Private phone number

Do remember that business of this magnitude will come to success only if it will be kept very confidential.

I need your urgent response before my plans to leave the company is discovered. Please if you are not willing and interested in helping me kindly delete this e-mail from your computer and pretend you never got it.

Yours Truly

Mr. Chris Owen

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