419 scam: Daniel Morrison <ltran@centiv.com> Your Funds...

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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)
- "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
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.
- allamerican_delivery12@yahoo.com.ph (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Daniel Morrison <ltran@centiv.com>
Reply-To: <allamerican_delivery12@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 04:56:48 +0300
Subject: Your Funds...

Airport Storage and Cargo Unit
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
1 World Way, Los Angeles, CA 90045, United States

ATTENTION:Notice On Your Consignment Box reg #: JG1N8875BS.

In view of your inability to receive your Consignment Box reg #: JG1N8875BS
originally scheduled to be delivered to you by the agency foreign payment
service New York. This Consignment box in a metal box valued 2,316,000USD
(Two Million, Three Hundred and Sixteen thousand United States dollars) arrived
at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) via United Airlines Flight UA 4130.

I am writing to inform you that we have intercepted and investigated the said
Consignment box and the investigation proved the legitimacy of its content. Note,
your Consignment box was initially scheduled for delivery to you, The Diplomat
who arrived with the Consignment made several attempts to reach you all efforts
proved abortive so he decided to leave for his country but before he left he
settled the delivery charges and left the Storage Keeping Charges unpaid due to
the reasons that he did not know when you will make claim on the consignment
and the Cargo and Storage Unit charges $20.00 for each day the Consignment box
stays in their custody.

You are therefore advised to make contact with Mr. David Beardsley of All
American Courier, llc, and U.S Customs Broker to assist you recover your
Consignment box and deliver it to you. You can contact him through his
email is: (allamerican_delivery12@yahoo.com.ph) to recover your Consignment or
we will be compelled to list your Consignment Box as an unclaimed and maybe
forfeited and moved to the United States Treasury Department for holding.

God Bless The United States of America.

Director.
Daniel Morrison.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
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