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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:

Fraud email example:

From: "DR. MORRIS FREDRICK"<morisfredrick101@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:48:54 +0800
Subject: I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE


O programa detetor de Spam ZOE, rodando no servidor "mail.mbaengenharia.com.br",
identificou este e-mail como um spam. A mensagem original foi atachada
a este e-mail para ser lida, (caso não seja um spam) ou para bloquear
e-mails futuros similares a este. Caso tenha alguma pergunta, veja
seu endereço para contato para detalhes.

Visualização Prévia: Hope you are doing great,i am sorry for barging into your
privacy without any prior invitation or having solicited for such transaction,out
of necessity i had to contact you on this transaction. I am contacting you
to help transfer the fund of my late client,Mr Pablo Bogarin who died years
back without any prior written/verbal will.I happened to be his chief accounting
officer,this said client deposited the sum of £52,954,000.00 (Fifty Two Million
Nine Hundred And Fifty Four Thousand British Pounds Sterling) has been floating
without anyone coming for it.The account was opened in 2008 and he died in
17th April 2010 without a (written or oral WILL) and since 2011 nobody has
operated on this account. Subsequent to my personal investigation i found
out that he was single before his death and he died of heart attack.I needed
to transfer this money out to a foreigner where the money could be invested
before the British government would confisticate it,this as a matter of urgency
deserved utmost confidentiality and commitment. Kindly get back to me if
you are interested as i have personally contracted an attorney whom will help
procure all requisite legal documents in your name as a back-up,while you
are to liaise with the bank after all legal documents are ready.Thanks as
i look forward hearing from. Regards. Dr. Morris. [...]

Detalhes da análise: (10.9 points, 5.0 required)

pts regra descrição
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
-1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP
0.0 MISSING_MID Missing Message-Id: header
3.4 FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future.
1.8 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals
1.4 FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD 'From' yahoo.com does not match 'Received' headers
1.6 MISSING_HEADERS Missing To: header
4.2 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook



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