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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: "F.B.I"<fb@fb.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 06:43:03 -0500
Subject: ***** SPAM ***** FBI LETTER[CODE:210]c


------------------ Début de Rapport SpamAssassin ---------------------
Ce message est probablement du SPAM (message non sollicité envoyé en
masse, publicité, escroquerie...).

Cette notice a été ajoutée par le système d'analyse "SpamAssassin" sur
votre serveur de courrier "ns15.evxonline.net", pour vous
aider à identifier ce type de messages.

Le système SpamAssassin ajoute un en-tête "X-Spam-Flag: YES" aux
messages qu'il considère comme étant probablement du Spam.
Vous pouvez si vous le souhaitez utiliser cette caractéristique
pour régler un filtre dans votre logiciel de lecture de courrier,
afin de détruire ou de classer à part ce type de message.

Si ce robot a classifié incorrectement un message qui vous était
destiné, ou pour toute question, veuillez contacter l'administrateur
du système par e-mail à the administrator of that system .

Voir http://spamassassin.apache.org/tag/ pour plus de détails (en anglais).

Détails de l'analyse du message: (31.8 points, 5.0 requis)
-1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP
5.5 BAYES_99 BODY: L'algorithme Bayésien a évalué la probabilité de spam
entre 99 et 100%
[score: 1.0000]
0.0 FSL_CTYPE_WIN1251 Content-Type only seen in 419 spam
0.0 NSL_RCVD_FROM_USER Received from User
0.2 FREEMAIL_REPLYTO_END_DIGIT Reply-To freemail username ends in digit
(<z.aziz1[at]aol.com>
)
1.0 MISSING_HEADERS Le message ne comporte pas l'en-tête To:
0.6 URG_BIZ BODY: Contient la formule "urgent business"
1.5 NA_DOLLARS BODY: Parle d'un million de dollars "nord-américains"
0.2 BAYES_999 BODY: L'algorithme Bayésien a évalué la probabilité de spam
entre 99.9 et 100%
[score: 1.0000]
0.5 MISSING_MID Missing Message-Id: header
0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY Huge... sums of money
0.0 FROM_MISSP_XPRIO Misspaced FROM + X-Priority
1.6 REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC
0.0 FROM_MISSP_MSFT From misspaced + supposed Microsoft tool
3.0 JM_SOUGHT_FRAUD_3 Body contains frequently-spammed text patterns
1.4 FSL_NEW_HELO_USER Spam's using Helo and User
0.0 AXB_XMAILER_MIMEOLE_OL_024C2 Yet another X header trait
0.0 FROM_MISSP_USER From misspaced, from "User"
0.7 FBI_SPOOF Claims to be FBI, but not from FBI domain
0.0 MONEY_FROM_MISSP Lots of money and misspaced From
2.1 FREEMAIL_FORGED_REPLYTO Freemail in Reply-To, but not From
1.0 TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP Multiple header formatting problems
0.0 FROM_MISSPACED From: missing whitespace
1.5 FBI_MONEY The FBI wants to give you lots of money?
0.0 T_FROM_MISSP_DKIM From misspaced, DKIM dependable
1.9 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Message falsifié prétendant provenir du logiciel
MS Outlook
0.0 FILL_THIS_FORM Fill in a form with personal information
2.0 FILL_THIS_FORM_LONG Fill in a form with personal information
1.2 MONEY_FORM Lots of money if you fill out a form
3.2 ADVANCE_FEE_4_NEW_FRM_MNY Advance Fee fraud form and lots of money
3.6 MONEY_FRAUD_3 Lots of money and several fraud phrases

-------------------- Fin de Rapport SpamAssassin ---------------------



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