419 scam: GREG HELMS <sales@g-link.com.hk> Your Delivery Notification

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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:
- "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.
- greghhelms@gmail.com (Gmail/GoogleMail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: GREG HELMS <sales@g-link.com.hk>
Reply-To: <greghhelms@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:52:11 -0700
Subject: Your Delivery Notification

Airport Storage and Cargo Unit
Erie International Airport (Pennsylvania)
PA 16505, USA
CALL.. 717 567 1069

In view of your inability to receive your Consignment Box reg #:
HG1N8875B2 originally scheduled to be delivered to you by the agency
foreign payment service United Kingdom. This Consignment box in a
metal box valued $7,316,000USD (Seven Million, Three
Hundred and Sixteen thousand United States dollars) arrived at
Philadelphia International Airport 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 $35.00 for each day
the Consignment box stays in our custody.

You are therefore advised to contact me back as we the Cargo Unit and
U.S Customs are to assist you recover your Consignment box and
deliver it to you, You are to contact me back 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 Kingdom for holding.

God Bless United States of America.

MR.GREG HELMS,
Director. Airport Storage and Cargo Unit
Erie International Airport (Pennsylvania)
PA 16505, USA
eMAIL. greghhelms@gmail.com

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