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Nigerian Scam - February 23, 2007
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Things I Did, Below
I, personally, receive email in HTML format. The following was received (and looked) like I received it. At the time, I was more interested in the message than the headers and do not have the original. This is a copy I forwarded to myself as I sent it to my father.
- I removed my email addresses. These came to various accounts and some no longer exist. There are places on this site you can get hold of me if you wish or need to. They are protected from spambots using JavaScript, but all you have to do is click on them.
- All scammer and related email addresses, and any actual website links have been changed, at least putting spaces into them. They appear as underlined blue links, though they aren't.
- Any notes I added in the actual letter are in square brackets ("[" "]"), are bold, red in color, and highlighted. If what I found "behind the links" (email or website) are different than what was displayed, I will include them in this type of note.
- All spelling, spacing, line-wrapping, and punctuation errors are the ones that appeared in the original received email. (I may or may not analyze some or all of these.)
Scam Example
Received 02/23/2007
Av.12 RD 16,Apt.39B, Triechville
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire
Hotel Number +225 05122038 [DO NOT CALL THIS NUMBER (see below)]
URGENT ASSISTANCE
Good day, I am Christ Willian From Abidjan Cote d'ivoire,
I wish to request for your urgent assistance in my
investment plans in your base,I wish to invest in
manufacturing and real estate management in your
base,this is because I inherited an important sum from
my late father who died in recent political crisis in
Cote d'Ivoire here.
Before the death of my father he informed me near his
hospital bed at chu- teaching hospital, that he has
saved the total sum of ($8.500,000) Eight Million Five
hundred thousand united states dollars only, in one of
the bank here in cote d Ivoire,This money was been
deposited for my social security and for fruitful
international investment,
Further directives and details about the deposit and on how to move the fund successfully into your private bank account in your country will be given to you as soon as I get your response,
May God Bless As You Assist Me,
Yours Faithfully,
Christ Willian.
Start Yahoo! Auction now! Check out the cool campaign
[NOTE: I left names, email addresses, and phone numbers in here for the search engines to find. DO NOT TRY TO CONTACT THEM! I'm SURE you will be ripped off! -LE]
Email Headers
[DO NOT send email to any of the following email addresses]
X-Message-Status: p:0
X-SID-PRA: christ00willian20010 @ yahoo.co.jp
X-SID-Result: Pass
X-Message-Info:
txF49lGdW42+JelFBoPPRYHXuYXqiGEOt20DWjamLWM=
Received: from web3112.mail.kcd.yahoo.co.jp
([124.147.38.4]) by bay0-mc4-f18.bay0.hotmail.com with
Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2444);
Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:50:11 -0800
Received: (qmail 18009 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Feb
2007 02:50:10 -0000
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
s=yj20050223; d=yahoo.co.jp;
h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type;
b=DD+1cIRXsAGW0zJ5LiCaOMjA/
4bA4eOSSi37BJ5FuK8wI1w+Gka5JTWvFqDR/
828kfHTMOOhjbU1HflQlOFPG/
dvCm5y0nGm6j2fLUpmbpvEVFWkXTkpivA96s37lr0Q ;
[above line arbitrarily broken up so it wouldn't push
page boundaries outside of the screen's]
Message-ID: <20070224025010.18007.qmail
@ web3112.mail.kcd.yahoo.co.jp>
Received: from [213.136.125.247] by
web3112.mail.kcd.yahoo.co.jp via HTTP; Sat, 24 Feb 2007
11:50:10 JST
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:50:10 +0900 (JST)
From: <christ00willian20010 @ yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: christ00willian20010 @ yahoo.co.jp
Subject: Greeting From Christ Willian
To: christ00willian20010 @ yahoo.co.jp
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="0-1984043389-1172285410=:17403"
Return-Path: christ00willian20010 @ yahoo.co.jp
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Feb 2007 02:50:11.0498 (UTC)
FILETIME=[808570A0:01C757BE]
Notes
Problems I see:
- Obvious (to me, anyway) errors:
- from the email, itself:
- The typical grammar, punctuation and spelling errors
- I find it interesting that the message was so short, and only appears to ask for a response. However, remember the "Further directives and details about the deposit and on how to move the fund successfully into your private bank account in your country will be given to you as soon as I get your response," And, if nothing else, they know your email address is active and that you are not "jaded" about offers like this, yet. Be sure to read the other Nigerian Scams I've collected over the years.
- from the Email Headers:
- The IP Address "203.216.249.190" could not be located through GeoBytes.com - IP Address Locator, leading me to believe it is "spoofed" (faked).
- Mr Willian is supposed to be from the Ivory Coast (West Africa). Why is the email address from Yahoo - Japan (Yahoo.co.jp)?
- from the email, itself:
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