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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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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: "WORLD BANK GROUP"<wbcreditors2001@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:12:04 -0700
Subject: ALERT FROM THE WORLD BANK CREDITORS ..


Diese Mail wurde von der Installation des SpamAssassin Spam-Filters als
Spam erkannt. Sollte diese Nachricht zu Unrecht als Spam markiert worden sein,
dann bitte diese Mail an admin@bk-werne.de weiterleiten (wenn moeglich
als Anlage!). Vielen Dank!
Die Originalnachricht ist dieser E-Mail als Anhang beigefuegt.

Content analysis details: (17.2 points, 4.0 required)


Pkt Regel Name Beschreibung
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
1.8 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals
0.7 URG_BIZ BODY: Contains urgent matter
0.0 BILLION_DOLLARS BODY: Talks about lots of money
1.8 MILLION_USD BODY: Talks about millions of dollars
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
1.7 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
0.0 FORGED_OUTLOOK_TAGS Outlook can't send HTML in this format
0.7 MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE
2.0 ADVANCE_FEE_2 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
0.0 FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTML Outlook can't send HTML message only
1.4 ADVANCE_FEE_3 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS
4.2 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook
2.8 DOS_OE_TO_MX Delivered direct to MX with OE headers
0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list

Diese Nachricht ist nicht komplett in plain text gewesen, so dass es
evtl. gefaehrlich ist, sie zu oeffnen, da die Mail moeglicherweise
einen Virus enthalten koe¶nnte. Wer sie dennoch anschauen moechte, sollte
dafuer besser einen Editor verwenden!

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam