419 scam: "Suren"<test@test.com> Please Respond

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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)
- "trunk box" (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)
- "trunk boxes" (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)
- "a 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.
- hayleeschowalter736@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Suren" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hayleeschowalter736@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:19:09 -0800
Subject: Please Respond

Hello

How are you? I hope you are fine and doing great. I am sorry for coming to you this way, but this is the only means to communicate with you and I hope you will see reason to contact me back after reading this email. I want to share an important information with you, all I ask is that you read this email carefully, understand what I am saying and I need your honest discretion. You may want you to know that, this may cause me my job if words get that, I leak out this information, so I need somebody that I can trust and someone who is honest too.

My name is Suren Kanthasamy, an Australian living in the United States and work as head of luggage/baggage storage facilities (Operations, Maintenance, Transportation) at Los Angeles International Airport - L.A.X, USA.

During my recent withheld package routine check at the Airport Storage Vault last year December 2021, I discovered an abandoned shipment which I personally recorded when a Diplomat from Australia flew in October 2020 and when it was scanned, it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in a Metal Trunk Boxes weighing approximately 720kg. The consignment was held on hold 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 after investigation was complete, the diplomat was fine but the inability of the diplomat to pay for the United States Non Inspection Charges of $5,700.00, he abandon it because he was later rushed to the hospital for suspicion of having Covid-19.

The content of the boxes has since been deposited with a bank after report confirmed, the death of the diplomat a month after from Covid-19 complications, leaving no trace or information of any relatives or next of kin. So the reason why I am contacting you is, for you to work with me and act as his next of kin, because you both share the same last name. I will arrange for all documents that you need to present to the authorities at the airport, so that they would know that you are the next of kin to the deceased. The bank will hand over all the money to you by transferring it to your bank account but you have to assure me that, once you receive the funds, it will be share equally.

I wait to hear from you urgently and I will appreciate if we can keep this deal strictly confidential. You might think of it as illegal but it's not, because if no one comes to make claim on it, the government will claim it after 3yrs, so it's not illegal, I just need your support and join me to make claim on it. Please get back to me via my private Email: (hayleeschowalter736@gmail.com) for further directives.

Thanks,

Suren Kanthasamy

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