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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: Mr.Ibrahim Ayuba <info@lee.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 14:18:52 +0100
Subject: [SPAM detect by SpamAssassin] Dear Friend, your cooperation is needed from Federal Ministry of Aviation


------------------ 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 "Nog-AntiSpam02", 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 https://spamassassin.apache.org/tag/ pour plus de détails (en anglais).

Détails de l'analyse du message: (9.3 points, 5.0 requis)
-1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: L'algorithme Bayésien a évalué la probabilité de
spam entre 0 et 1%
[score: 0.0000]
0.2 FREEMAIL_REPLYTO_END_DIGIT Reply-To freemail username ends in
digit (ibrahimayuba2002[at]gmail.com)
2.6 DEAR_FRIEND BODY: Contient la formule "Dear friend"
0.0 HK_NAME_MR_MRS No description available.
0.5 MISSING_MID Missing Message-Id: header
0.0 RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_BL Mailspike blacklisted
0.8 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS
0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY Huge... sums of money
2.1 FREEMAIL_FORGED_REPLYTO Freemail in Reply-To, but not From
0.0 RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_ZBI No description available.
2.5 MONEY_FREEMAIL_REPTO Lots of money from someone using free
email?
2.5 TO_EQ_FM_DIRECT_MX To == From and direct-to-MX
0.0 T_MONEY_PERCENT X% of a lot of money for you
0.0 FILL_THIS_FORM Fill in a form with personal information
0.0 HELO_MISC_IP Looking for more Dynamic IP Relays
0.0 T_FILL_THIS_FORM_LONG Fill in a form with personal information
0.0 MONEY_FORM Lots of money if you fill out a form
0.0 T_FILL_THIS_FORM_FRAUD_PHISH Answer suspicious question(s)
0.0 MONEY_FRAUD_5 Lots of money and many fraud phrases
0.0 FORM_FRAUD_5 Fill a form and many fraud phrases

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



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