419 scam: "Mngr. Douglas Stearns"<admin@myvps.jp> YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE IS NEEDED!!!

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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:
- "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)
- ",500,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mngr. Douglas Stearns" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mngddst@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:25:07 -0800
Subject: YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE IS NEEDED!!!

Interim Head of Inspection Luggage/Baggage,
Newark Liberty International Airport.
3 Brewster Rd, Newark, NJ 07114, USA.
Phone: +1 (650) 397-8717

I'm Douglas Stearns, Deputy General Manager, Newark Liberty International Airport. I received a compiled file of a consignment box shipped from Honolulu InternationalAirport Hawaii USA down here at Newark Liberty International Airport, reportedly from Africa and was abandoned at the airport since arrival.

This consignment box contained US$22,500,000.00 in it which we have discovered its real U.S Dollars, as it was recorded as missing compensation project fund from West Africa belonging to yet unidentified person due to the identification information was not properly viewed and the document we found with it has depreciated but we were able to figure out your email address on file.

Therefore we urge you to respond to this mail if you are alive to witness this.

Yours Sincerely,
Douglas Stearns Deputy General Manager
Newark Liberty International Airport.
3 Brewster Rd, Newark, NJ 07114, USA.

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