419 scam: Overseas Credit Commission <info@occ.org> RE: ABANDONED CONSIGNMENT

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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)
- "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)
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.
- richardmichael100@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Overseas Credit Commission <info@occ.org>
Reply-To: richardmichael100@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:54:46 +0300
Subject: RE: ABANDONED CONSIGNMENT

Attn:

I am the new EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and Head of Operations of Overseas
Credit Commission London, UK. Sometime ago, in our organization your
overdue consignment fund was brought to our office for final delivery
clearance. However, upon my arrival to this office, I found your
consignment clearance file lying fallow on my desk without any
attention. On a thorough scrutiny I discovered that your consignment
have been abandoned by your delivery agent. Meanwhile, I have made
several attempts to contact your delivery agent but to no avail.

To my greatest surprise, during my recent routine checking, I
personally discovered that your consignment content declaration
documents stated that your consignment contains personal effects
meanwhile, it contains United States dollar bills worth over US$ 10.5
Million dollars, which made it impossible for the consignment to be
delivered to you earlier before now.

Based on this personal discovery, I am contacting you now to let you
know that with my position and power in this office, I can assist you
to legally clear your consignment fund, but you must agree with the
following conditions:

You must not disclose to any member of my organization whatever
assistance that I am going to render to you in respect of clearing
this consignment fund into your custody.You will provide me with an
authenticated promissory note, otherwise known as partnership
agreement, that upon the safe arrival of the consignment fund to your
custody, that you give me 30% of the total fund contained in the
consignment.You must give adequate attention to this matter until we
successfully and legally clear the consignment fund into your custody.

Upon your acceptance with my above conditions, I will furnish you with
further details of what should be done to legally get the consignment
fund cleared and delivered to you as the rightful owner of the
consignment. Meanwhile, if you know that you would be unable to keep
the secret of my assistance to you in this regards, please do not
border to reply.

Hence the consignment fund would be recovered into our organization
treasury account as unclaimed consignment fund. But if you can assure
me of your competency to keep this secret, I would like to hear from
you soon as possible so that I can email you further details and
guidelines.

Furnish me with the underlisted information:

YOUR FULL NAMES:
HOME ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER/FAX:
NEAREST AIRPORT:

Please send further correspondence to richardmichael100@gmail.com
Have a Great Day

Mr. Richard Michael
Head of Operations
E-mail: richardmichael100@gmail.com

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