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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • infosusan53@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:33:06 -0800
Subject: ****SPAM(15.1)**** ASISTANCE FUND TRANSFER


Spam detection software, running on the system "www.telnorm.com.mx", 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
postmaster for details.

Content preview: From Mrs. Susan shabangu Deputy Minister of safety & se=
curity,
South Africa . Tel: 27-) E-mail: (infosusan53@yahoo.com) (ASISTANCE FU=
ND
TRANSFER} Dear, First, let me start by introducing myself as Mrs. Susan=
shabangu,
a mother of three children and the deputy minister of safety and secur=
ity
since 24th April 1994 to date under the auspices of the president of S=
outh
Africa Mr. Thabo Mbeki. [...]=20

Content analysis details: (15.1 points, 5.0 required)

pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- ---------------------------------------------=
-----
3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100%
[score: 1.0000]
0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with n=
o rDNS
1.9 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals
1.9 FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD 'From' yahoo.com does not match 'Received' he=
aders
1.3 MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE
1.5 ADVANCE_FEE_2 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419=
)
1.1 ADVANCE_FEE_3 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419=
)
0.8 ADVANCE_FEE_4 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419=
)
3.0 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook
-0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam