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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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Fraud email example:
From: FRANK IDOWU <frank_idowuga4@live.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:47:36 -0500
Subject: *****SPAM***** PLEASE GET BACK TO ME.
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identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message
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Content preview: Dear Friend, I hope this may not constitute sort of embarrassment
to you, My name is FRANK IDOWU.I am the regional manager of the International
Commercial Bank of Ghana Takoradi in the Western region of Ghana.I got your
information during my search through the Internet.I am 44years of age and
married with three lovely kids.It may interest you to hear that i am a man
of PEACE and don't want problem,I only hope we can assist each other.If you
don't want this business offer kindly forget it as i will not contact you
again. I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of
us,as the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank,it is my duty
to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra
at the end of each year.On the course of the last year 2006 end of year report,
I discovered that my branch in which i am the manager made [5.6 Million USDollars]
Five Million Six Hundred Thousand USDollars, which my head office are not
aware of and will never be aware of.I have since place this fund on what
we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary. As an officer of the bank
i can not be directly connected to this money, so this is the reason why
i am contacting you for us to work so that you can assist in receiving this
money into your bank account for us to SHARE.While you will have 30% of the
total fund . Note. there are practically no risk involved,it will be bank
to bank transfer,all i need from you is to stand CLAIM as the original depositor
of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head office
can order the transfer to your designated bank account.If you accept this
offer to work with me,i will appreciate it very much.As soon as i receive
your response i will details you on how we can achieve it successfully. Thanks,FRANK
IDOWU. +233 24 669 9147 News, entertainment and everything you care about
at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx Dear Friend,
[...]
Content analysis details: (12.8 points, 7.0 required)
pts rule name description
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0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS
1.8 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals
1.4 DATE_IN_PAST_03_06 Date: is 3 to 6 hours before Received: date
1.6 MISSING_HEADERS Missing To: header
1.8 MILLION_USD BODY: Talks about millions of dollars
2.7 DEAR_FRIEND BODY: Dear Friend? That's not very dear!
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
2.0 ADVANCE_FEE_2 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
1.4 ADVANCE_FEE_3 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
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