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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: "Mrs. Lynda Gates"<info@live.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 01:06:32 -0700
Subject: *****SPAM***** I am presently in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment Cancer of the lungs. I am 69 Years old. My late husband deposited the sum of $16.5M with a Bank. I want a person who is trustworthy that I will make the beneficiary Fund before i die. I want the funds to be use for philanthropic purpose . Get back to via my Email: (mrslyndagates12@gmail.com) for more details.
O filtro de spam do servidor "odin.odin-levitron.com.br" identificou este
e-mail como um spam. A mensagem original está anexa a este
este e-mail para que possa ser visualizada (caso não seja
um spam) ou para que emails futuros similares a este sejam
marcados como spam também. Caso tenha alguma dúvida, entre
em contato no email the administrator of that system para mais detalhes.
Visualização de um trecho: Hello [...]
Detalhes da análise: (21.9 pontos, mínimo de 3.0)
pts regra descrição
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-1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Mensagem passou via SMTP apenas por hosts confiáveis
3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Probabilidade de ser spam entre 99 to 100%
[score: 1.0000]
1.0 FSL_CTYPE_WIN1251 Content-Type only seen in 419 spam
2.8 NSL_RCVD_FROM_USER Received from User
1.0 MISSING_HEADERS Não possui o cabeçalho To:
0.2 BAYES_999 BODY: Probabilidade de ser spam entre 99.9 to 100%
[score: 1.0000]
0.5 MISSING_MID Não possui header Message-Id
0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY Huge... sums of money
1.6 REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC
3.4 FROM_MISSP_MSFT From misspaced + supposed Microsoft tool
2.0 FSL_NEW_HELO_USER Spam's using Helo and User
3.2 AXB_XMAILER_MIMEOLE_OL_024C2 Yet another X header trait
0.8 FROM_MISSP_USER From misspaced, from "User"
1.0 MONEY_FROM_MISSP Lots of money and misspaced From
0.0 T_FROM_MISSP_DKIM From misspaced, DKIM dependable
1.9 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Email fingindo ser enviado pelo MS Outlook
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