419 scam: "Webmail User" <webmail@allweb.com> (no subject)

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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 uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Webmail User" <webmail@allweb.com>
Reply-To: email.upgrade.team002@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 23:36:53 +0200 (CEST)
Subject:

Dear Webmail Subscriber,

We are currently carrying-out a mantainace process to your webmail
account, to complete this, you must reply to this mail immediately, and
enter your User Name here (,,,,,,,,) And Password here (.......) if you
are the rightful owner of this account.

This process we help us to fight against spam mails.Failure to summit your
password, will render your email address in-active from our database.
NOTE: If your have done this before, you may ignore this mail. You will be
send a password reset messenge in next seven (7) working days after
undergoing this process for security reasons.

Thank you for using Webmail !
THE WEBMAIL TEAM UPGRADE

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam