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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Paul Jones"<luis@molina.com.do>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:03:24 -0800
Subject: *****SPAM***** Merry christmas Beneficiary,Payment notification of your funds.{BB89055CBN}.


Spam detection software, running on the system "sav02.exchangenet.net", h=
as
identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message
has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label
similar future email. If you have any questions, see
the administrator of that system for details.

Content preview: Attention Beneficiary. Merry christmas to you and your =
family,I
am Mr.Paul Jones, the secretary to the Executive Director of The Feder=
al
bureau of investigation (FBI) Washington, D.C. The Federal bureau of in=
vestigation
(FBI) Washington, D.C in conjunction with some other relevant Investig=
ations
Agencies here in the United states of America have recently been infor=
med
through our Global intelligence monitoring network that you presently =
have
a transaction going on with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as regar=
d to
your over-due lottery payment which your email address won in their ra=
ndom
lottery pick and which was fully endorsed in your favor Accordingly. [=
...]
=20

Content analysis details: (13.1 points, 5.0 required)

pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- ---------------------------------------------=
-----
1.6 URG_BIZ BODY: Contains urgent matter
1.5 MILLION_USD BODY: Talks about millions of dollars
0.6 US_DOLLARS_3 BODY: Mentions millions of $ ($NN,NNN,NNN.NN)
2.0 BAYES_80 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 80 to 95%
[score: 0.9441]
0.8 MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE
1.2 ADVANCE_FEE_2 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419=
)
1.4 ADVANCE_FEE_3 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419=
)
0.6 ADVANCE_FEE_4 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419=
)
0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with n=
o rDNS
3.1 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook

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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam