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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:

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

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Konar Gamba"<info.geoff2@optusnet.com.au>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 17:49:34 -0800
Subject: ****SPAM(9.0)**** IT IS IMPORTANT I HEAR FROM YOU NOW.


Spam detection software, running on the system "portal.bk-werne.de", 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: Hello Dear, Pardon me for not having the pleasure of kn=
owing
your Mind set before making you this offer as it is utterly Confidenti=
al
and genuine by virtue of its nature. I write to solicit your assistance=
in
a fund transfer deal involving US$3.5M.This fund has been stashed out =
of
the excess profit made last year by my branch office of the Internation=
al
Commercial Bank which I am the Manager. [...]=20

Content analysis details: (9.0 points, 4.0 required)

pts rule name description
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-1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP
2.3 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
2.3 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
0.8 FORGED_OUTLOOK_TAGS Outlook can't send HTML in this format
0.8 MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE
0.0 FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTML Outlook can't send HTML message only
4.2 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook

The original message was not completely plain text, and may be unsafe to
open with some email clients; in particular, it may contain a virus,
or confirm that your address can receive spam. If you wish to view
it, it may be safer to save it to a file and open it with an editor.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam