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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Charles J. Colocino Jr" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ccolocino09@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:54:53 -0700
Subject: Your Abandoned Consignment!!

Head of luggage/baggage storage facilities
(Operations, Maintenance, and Transportation)
John F. Kennedy International Airport
Queens New York, 11430

Hello Good Friend

I am Charles J. Colocino Jr, head of luggage/baggage storage facilities (Operations, Maintenance, and Transportation) At John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) New York. I am contacting you in reference to a abandoned diplomatic consignment box that was abandoned by unidentified diplomat from London or Africa or maybe Asia i can't really specify where is coming from and when scanned it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in a Metal Trunk Box weighing 110kg which the indication could be approximately 12.5 Million United States dollars. the amount were not to clear and the consignment box indicates your name, your email address and the official documents from the United Nations office in Geneva are tagged on it. The diplomat left the consignment box without notifying anyone on his arrival because he couldn't be able to pay for the United States Non Inspection fee to the US Customs and border protection. To confirm you as the authentic beneficiary, do send me your full name, your home address, your mobile

For your information, the box was abandoned by the diplomat who was on transit to your location because he was not able to pay the Non Inspection fee to the US Customs and border protection he abandoned it with the authority without any notification of his arrival for clearance. I have taken it upon myself to contact you personally about this abandoned box so that we both can transact this as a deal and share the total money 70% for you and 30% for me. My main purpose of contacting you is that the U.S. Custom and border Protection are on clearance for some abandoned beneficiaries consignment for 2018 to be confiscated 2019 November 30th to be officially transfer to the US Treasury. Description of Consignment box to be delivered: Type:......CONSIGNMENT BOX Weight:...110kg. Color:.....BROWN BOX Registration NO: #98952457 Serial #1256784315 Pin number?*****

I want both of us to transact this as a deal all i want is your trust as the arrangement for the box to be delivered to you which can be concluded within 2 working days after confirmation is made and upon your acceptance and willingness to co-operate.

I will appreciate if we can keep this deal confidential. Please get back to me via this email for further directives: You can not call me on my telephone number for now to avoid been expose me more. Send your response to my private email.( ccolocino01@gmail.com )

Thank you.

Mr. Charles J. Colocino Jr.
my address: ccolocino01@gmail.com

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