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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:

Fraud email example:

From: Ben Donald <adelabudu@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrbendonald08@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:54:20 -0400
Subject: Re: Your Abandoned Consignment For Delivery

Mr. Ben Donald
JFK International Airport
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
John F. Kennedy International Airport, Building 77, 2nd Floor, Executive Office

Attention:

Re: Your Abandoned Consignment For Delivery

I have very vital information to give to you, but first I must have
your trust before I review it to you because it may cause me my job,
so I need somebody that I can trust for me to be able to review the
secret to you.

I am Mr. Ben Donald A senior officer at John F. Kennedy International
Airport (JFK) New York. I am contacting you in reference to a
abandoned diplomatic consignment box and the x-ray scan report box
revealed an undisclosed sum of money in a metal trunk box which could
be approximately 12.5Million dollars. and the box indicates your
contact details. The consignment was abandoned because the Contents of
the consignment was not properly declared by the consignee as
MONEY·rather it was declared as personal effect to avoid interrogation
and also the inability of the diplomat to pay for the United States
Non Inspection fee to the US Customs border and protection. To confirm
you as the authentic beneficiary, do send me your full name, your home
address, your mobile telephone number, occupation and the nearest
airport close to you.

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 border and 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 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’s Border and Protection are on
clearance for some abandoned beneficiaries consignment for 2021 to
2022 January 27th to be listed among the list of consignment box that
will be confiscation to be transfer to the US Treasury for 2022.few
months from now.

Description of Consignment box to be delivered: Type:……CONSIGNMENT
TRUNK BOX Size:……/ 3:1 CM. Weight:…5.7KG. Color:…..METALLIC BOX
Registration NO: #895795??** Serial #56315127?** Pin number??*****
I will give you the complete information when I hear from you

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 4-6hours 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.

Thank you.

Mr. Ben Donald

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