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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "TEDDY WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES" <musa_husan11@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:16:38 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: *****SPAM*****


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Content preview: Address:33 Bedford Row London WC1R 4JH, England PARTNER=
MANAGING
TEDDY WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES LONDON - UK. Attention: On behalf of the T=
rustees
and Executor of the estate of Late Engr.J=FCrgen Kr=FCgger. I once aga=
in try
to notify you as my earlier letter was returned undelivered. I hereby a=
ttempt
to reach you again by this same email address on the WILL. I wish to n=
otify
you that late Engr. J=FCrgen Kr=FCgger made you a beneficiary to his W=
ILL. He
left the sum of Thirty Million, One Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$30, =
100.000.00)
to you in the Codicil and last testament to his WILL. [...]=20

Content analysis details: (3.8 points, 3.5 required)

pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- ---------------------------------------------=
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-1.7 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP
1.5 FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD2 hotmail.com 'From' address, but no 'Received:=
'
1.5 MILLION_USD BODY: Talks about millions of dollars
0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60%
[score: 0.5000]
2.5 MISSING_SUBJECT Missing Subject: header

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