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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam
The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.
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.
Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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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: "Virginia Harper"<tasteker@harperfoundation.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:37:57 -0700
Subject: [* SPAM? *] My last wish
Content analysis details on host gate.digitalaccess.ru: 20.3 points, 5.0 required
-1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP
3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100%
[score: 1.0000]
0.0 T_FROM_MISSPACED From: missing whitespace
1.9 DATE_IN_FUTURE_06_12 Date: is 6 to 12 hours after Received: date
0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid
-0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature
1.1 ADVANCE_FEE_2 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
0.0 T_LOTS_OF_MONEY Huge... sums of money
1.6 FROM_MISSP_MSFT From misspaced + supposed Microsoft tool
2.6 MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE
0.7 MONEY_FROM_MISSP Lots of money and misspaced From
2.1 FREEMAIL_FORGED_REPLYTO Freemail in Reply-To, but not From
2.4 FREEMAIL_REPLYTO Reply-To/From or Reply-To/body contain different
freemails
0.0 T_MONEY_PERCENT X% of a lot of money for you
0.0 MONEY_FRAUD_8 Lots of money and very many fraud phrases
0.0 T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL
3.4 FROM_MISSP_FREEMAIL From misspaced + freemail provider
1.9 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook
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