On November 14th, the included email was received from Mr. Jeff Pear from the Office of Inspection Unit and the United Nations Agency divisions at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It's important to bring this to the attention of the entire domain investing community as Nigerian scams haven't presented themselves in this nonchalant manner before and they're slowly trickling in with reports this month of a 2011 variant. It may well be in your spam folder already, but has made it through to the inbox on this end.
Typically Nigerian scams, which pre-date the web, consist of claiming items at bargain prices or services performed for a share. And all of these call for some cash beforehand from the unsuspecting victim.
Having read this email fully, it exhibits no indication of expecting money for the exchange, rather the intended target’s number and address.
As no results were to be found on Google using snippets of the body, CopyScape was used as an alternative in locating anything remotely close to this scam. It turned out that there were 43 duplicates found with 3 were sampled.
The earliest initial report was posted on November 2nd, 2014 that was detected by Sam "The 419 Guy” Smith. It’s believed he followed in the footsteps of Mike Berry; the original 419 scam reporter, after being swindled out of lots of money himself with reports dating back to 2012.
All of these scams have telltale signs of being a con with the poor spelling, grammar and not to mention a prior Nigerian Senator using a Yahoo! Spain email address.
This wasn't followed up on as of yet as to what this scam entails, but it’s strongly recommended to report this email as spam making sure that ISP’s filter them and then proceed to delete it without supplying any information.
Replying with what is requested can alert the sender that you have a live email address and are willing to open mail that could put you in-between a rock and a hard place. It also opens you up to calls from phone numbers using country codes to form a phone number in a familiar area code. An example of this would be +5419814053 showing up on your caller ID, which appears as if it may be an end user contacting you from the 541 area code in Oregon State, when it's a telemarketer using an Argentinian number. In addition to that, your address. All three of pieces of information are worth money to spammers, and that could be the ultimate scheme.
If anything new comes about from this particular 419 scam, it'll be reported in this article as well as new variants of this con.
Typically Nigerian scams, which pre-date the web, consist of claiming items at bargain prices or services performed for a share. And all of these call for some cash beforehand from the unsuspecting victim.
Having read this email fully, it exhibits no indication of expecting money for the exchange, rather the intended target’s number and address.
As no results were to be found on Google using snippets of the body, CopyScape was used as an alternative in locating anything remotely close to this scam. It turned out that there were 43 duplicates found with 3 were sampled.
The earliest initial report was posted on November 2nd, 2014 that was detected by Sam "The 419 Guy” Smith. It’s believed he followed in the footsteps of Mike Berry; the original 419 scam reporter, after being swindled out of lots of money himself with reports dating back to 2012.
Source: The New York TimesIn 2003, Mike Berry was a 41-year-old computer engineer in Manchester, England, when he started replying to Nigerian scammers over email for fun. His website, 419eater.com, provides a forum for likeminded “scam-baiters” and an archive of their most outrageous achievements.
There's nothing about this message that blatantly shouts this is a scam since it's merely requesting a number and address. There is accurate information such as the the potential of the undetermined cash being Senator Pius Anyim that makes it seem legitimate. However, his time in office ended May 2003, suggesting these boxes were stored for 12 years or longer.Your Abandoned Consignment,
I am Mr. Jeff Pear from the Office of Inspection Unit/United Nations Agency in John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) Terminal 4 New York USA. During my recent routine check at the Airport Storage/vault on withheld packages, I discovered an abandoned shipment that belongs to you from a Diplomat from Nigeria, when scanned it in our airport scanning machine it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in two Metal Trunk Boxes weighing approximately 25kg each and some people are coming after this consignment to clam it in your name.
The consignment was abandoned because the Contents 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 IRREVOCABLE CONSIGNMENT MONEY MOVEMENT Charges Before bringing in the consignment into USA and we refused to return back the consignment where it came from since, we have already received it here in USA.
On my assumption, each of the box contain not less than US$5 Million to US$5.5Million and the consignment is still left in our Storage House here at the John F. Kennedy International Airport till date. The details of the consignment including your name, your email address and the official document from the United Nations office in Geneva Switzerland are tagged on the Metal Trunk boxes in your favor.
However, to enable me confirm if you are the actual recipient of this consignment, as the assistant director of the Inspection Unit, You are advice to contact; THE PRESIDENCY, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Federal Republic of Nigeria in person of Senator Pius Anyim.
I will advise you to provide him your current Phone Number and Full Address, to enable him cross check if it corresponds with the address on the official documents including the Name of the nearest Airport around your city we have here in our data base report.
Please note that this consignment is supposed to have been returned to the United States Treasury Department as unclaimed delivery due to the delay in concluding the clearance processes.
Therefore you are advice to correspond with the above named office in Nigeria with the below Email address;---- piusanyimXX at yahoo.es
Once I receive response from Senator Pius Anyim in regards to your response to him regarding the release of the consignment in your name I will ask him to assign another diplomat from there Embassy here in New York to convey your consignment direct to you within the next 6-8 hours.
Regards,
Mr. Jeff Pear.
Office of the Inspection Unit
Address: Jamaica, New York, NY 11430,
United StatesJFK-John F. Kennedy International Airport New York USA.
O/C
piusanyimXX at yahoo.es
All of these scams have telltale signs of being a con with the poor spelling, grammar and not to mention a prior Nigerian Senator using a Yahoo! Spain email address.
This wasn't followed up on as of yet as to what this scam entails, but it’s strongly recommended to report this email as spam making sure that ISP’s filter them and then proceed to delete it without supplying any information.
Replying with what is requested can alert the sender that you have a live email address and are willing to open mail that could put you in-between a rock and a hard place. It also opens you up to calls from phone numbers using country codes to form a phone number in a familiar area code. An example of this would be +5419814053 showing up on your caller ID, which appears as if it may be an end user contacting you from the 541 area code in Oregon State, when it's a telemarketer using an Argentinian number. In addition to that, your address. All three of pieces of information are worth money to spammers, and that could be the ultimate scheme.
If anything new comes about from this particular 419 scam, it'll be reported in this article as well as new variants of this con.
Its fun, I get approx. 10 per day now and rising 
