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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: "CRIME HEAD OFFICE"<crime@tin.it>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:18:30 +0100
Subject: Re: Economic & Financial Crimes Commission
O programa antispam que roda em nosso servidor "maq01.crcrj.org.br",
identificou essa mensagem como um possível spam. Caso não se trate de spam
favor seleciona-la e clicar no botão "learn Ham" no canto superior esquerdo
da tela. Se houver dúvidas entre em contato conosco através do email
informatica@crcrj.org.br não esquecendo de colocar no corpo da mensagem
o quadro abaixo para que possamos analisar os itens pontuados e fazer as devidas
manutenções se necessário.
Análise da Mensagem: (14.1 points, 6.8 required)
pts rule name description
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3.0 RCVD_IN_XBL RBL: Received via a relay in Spamhaus XBL
[197.242.108.4 listed in zen.spamhaus.org]
0.9 RCVD_IN_PBL RBL: Received via a relay in Spamhaus PBL
3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100%
[score: 1.0000]
1.2 FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future.
0.8 MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE
1.2 ADVANCE_FEE_2 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
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
2.0 FAKE_REPLY_C FAKE_REPLY_C
0.1 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook
-0.2 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
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