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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • nduelumelu25@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Hon. Ndudi Elumelu"<nduelumelu@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:46:21 +0100
Subject: ****SPAM(16.4)**** HAPPY NEW YEAR


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Content preview: From: Hon. Ndudi Elumelu Chairman, Seven (7) Man Presid=
ential
Panel/Public Debt Committee On Contract Executed in Power Sector Feder=
al
Republic Of Nigeria. Email: nduelumelu25@gmail.com I am the chairman of=
Seven
(7) Man Presidential Panel, Debt Committee On Contract Executed in Pow=
er
Sector. This panel was set up and empowered by three factors: The Presi=
dent
Of Nigeria, Mallam Musa Yar'Adua, Members of G-34 and the Honorable Me=
mbers
of the Judicial Panel, to review and subsequently recommendation given=
on
all duly executed contracts awarded to "Foreign & Local Contractors" d=
uring
the last Govt. of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, we discovered an over-invoi=
ced
contract sum to the tune of One Hundred Million United States Dollars =
USD$100,000,000.00).
We further traced the origin of this sum and thus, found out that it w=
as
deliberately over-invoiced by the then "Contract Awarding Committee" be=
fore
they were dissolved. As it stands now, we are very confident that the =
Government
has no knowledge of this sum; neither does the dissolved committee hav=
e access
to the said sum again. We still have almost one year to conclude duty =
and
it is only then that we shall give official reports and probably refer=
t
It is in the light of this that my colleagues and myself decided to con=
fidently
contact you urgently so that we could perfectly present you or your co=
mpany
as! one of the "Foreign Contractors" that executed a contract for the =
Nigerian
Government, and we shall recommend only $15 Million United States Doll=
ars
(USD$15,000,000.00) to be processed and transfered into your account. =
Thereafter,
we shall refer back to the Government's purse the balance of EIGTHY FI=
VE
Million Dollars (USD$85,000,000.00). We have carefully worked out the s=
trategies
to secure all the necessary DOCUMENTS in your name and there is no roo=
m for
failure, because we are still at the head of Contract Review And Payme=
nts
Recommendation, and it is only our reports that counts. If we have und=
erstood
ourselves and believed with trust that we could do this DEAL together =
and
move this sum of Fifteen Million Dollars (USD$15,000,000.00) TO YOU, t=
hen
forward to me urgently the following; [...]=20

Content analysis details: (16.4 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
1.5 MILLION_USD BODY: Talks about millions of dollars
1.0 US_DOLLARS_3 BODY: Mentions millions of $ ($NN,NNN,NNN.NN)
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
0.7 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list

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