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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: "John Morgan"<test@test.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 13:00:35 -0400
Subject: *****SPAM*****
*****SPAM***** *****SPAM*****Send this information to our Department Agent


SpamAssassin auf Zeus hat ein Spammail entdeckt.
Die Originalnachricht wurde angeh�ngt.

Vorschau: Greetings, This is to Inform you that an ATM Card Number:
4283 0830 7403 4242 worth $4.5Million US Dollars has been accredited by the
Federal Government of Nigeria as Fund Compensation currently approved in
your favour according to the meeting held by The United Nations, FBI, IMF,Global
Delivery Servise and Interpol to verify and confirm your past transactions
with the officials and government of Nigeria. The package has been released
today for delivery by the above agencies. You are receiving this email message
in order to fully compensate victims that have had problems in receiving
their funds or lost funds in the process.Your name is among the list of beneficiaries
for the above payment approved in your favour. We the Global Delivery Agency
registered under Nigeria government is charged to deliver your ATM visa Card
package to your door-step as soon as we receive your delivery information
written below. [...]

BAYES: 0.5

Analysedetails: (21.4 punkte, 4.9 Ben�tigt)

Pkt Regelname Beschreibung
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
-1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP
1.0 NSL_RCVD_FROM_USER Received from User
0.0 FSL_CTYPE_WIN1251 Content-Type only seen in 419 spam
0.2 FREEMAIL_REPLYTO_END_DIGIT Reply-To freemail username ends in digit
(jm1744905[at]gmail.com)
1.2 MISSING_HEADERS Missing To: header
0.0 FROM_MISSP_USER From misspaced, from "User"
1.9 REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC No description available.
0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY Huge... sums of money
2.6 AXB_XMAILER_MIMEOLE_OL_024C2 Yet another X header trait
0.0 FROM_MISSP_MSFT From misspaced + supposed Microsoft tool
1.0 FROM_MISSP_XPRIO Misspaced FROM + X-Priority
0.0 FSL_NEW_HELO_USER Spam's using Helo and User
0.1 MISSING_MID Missing Message-Id: header
1.0 MONEY_FROM_MISSP Lots of money and misspaced From
2.5 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
2.8 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from 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
2.2 FILL_THIS_FORM_LOAN Answer loan question(s)
1.0 MONEY_FRAUD_5 Lots of money and many fraud phrases
1.7 ADVANCE_FEE_3_NEW_FRM_MNY Advance Fee fraud form and lots of money
0.0 FORM_FRAUD_5 Fill a form and many fraud phrases



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