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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: AMOS KELLY <barr_amos_kelly11@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: jerryborn12@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:36:28 +0200
Subject: *****SPAM***** International bank Draft For You


Spam detection software, running on the system "mail.tugab.bg", has
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: Good day to you, How have you been? I hope my email meets
you in good health. I am much delighted and privileged to contact you again,after
thislong time, it takes fate and courage to remember old friends and at the
same time, to show gratitude to them despite circumstances that made disrupted
our transaction ultimately not working out as we projected then. [...]

Content analysis details: (6.2 points, 5.0 required)

pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
-1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP
2.3 FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD 'From' yahoo.com does not match 'Received' headers
1.3 MISSING_HEADERS Missing To: header
1.3 NA_DOLLARS BODY: Talks about a million North American dollars
0.6 US_DOLLARS_3 BODY: Mentions millions of $ ($NN,NNN,NNN.NN)
-0.2 BAYES_40 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 20 to 40%
[score: 0.3089]
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)

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