An
Email with the Subject "VERY VERY URGENT" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:13:34 -0800
and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email.
The sender shows as Kofo Ahmadu <kofoahmadu@gmail.com>.
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deceasednext of kinbankclaimcustomer10%urgent transfercustomfundproposalbusinessbank bank account our bank the bank your bank will (usd$10.5m)(the owner of the account)(etc)
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[date:] => Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:13:36 -0800 (PST)
[from:] => Kofo Ahmadu
[reply-to:] => kofoahmadu@gmail.com
[subject:] => VERY VERY URGENT
[to:] => undisclosed recipients: ;
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[x-ham-report:] => Spam detection software, running on the system "chester.loopbiz.com", hasidentified this incoming email as possible spam. The original messagehas been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or labelsimilar future email. If you have any questions, seethe administrator of that system for details.Content preview: Dear friend, I know that this message will come to you asa surprise. I am Mr.Kofo Ahmadu from Burkina Faso the Accounting and AuditingManager bank of Africa (B.O.A), Ouagadougou I hoped that you will not exposeor betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for themutual benefit of our families. I need your urgent assistance in transferringthe sum of (usd$10.5m) million to your account within 10 to 14 banking days.This money has been dormant for years in our bank without claim. I want thebank to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer(the owner of the account) died along with his supposed next of kin in anair crash since July, 2003. I don't want the money to go into our bank treasureraccount as an abandoned fund. So this is the reason why I contacted you sothat the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceasedcustomer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret anddelete it if you are not upon receipt of your reply, I will give you fulldetails on how the business will be executed and also note that you willhave 35% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to handle this business withme? And 10% will be set aside for any expenses that warrant on the processbefore the fund get into your bank account such as telephone calls bills(etc). Best Regards, Mr.Kofo Ahmadu [...] Content analysis details: (-1.8 points, 4.0 required)pts rule name description---- ---------------------- ---------------------------------------------------0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, lowtrust[98.139.91.224 listed in list.dnswl.org]-3.0 URG_BIZ BODY: Contains urgent matter0.0 HK_SCAM_N2 BODY: HK_SCAM_N20.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is freemail (kofoahmadu[at]gmail.com)0.7 SPF_NEUTRAL SPF: sender does not match SPF record (neutral)-2.0 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals-3.0 DEAR_FRIEND BODY: Dear Friend? That's not very dear!0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY Huge... sums of money0.0 DECEASED_NO_ML Dead not via mailing list1.5 ADVANCE_FEE_4_NEW Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)2.4 ADVANCE_FEE_5_NEW Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)0.5 ADVANCE_FEE_3_NEW Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)0.0 T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL0.0 T_MONEY_PERCENT X% of a lot of money for you0.5 ADVANCE_FEE_2_NEW_MONEY Advance Fee fraud and lots of money1.0 ADVANCE_FEE_3_NEW_MONEY Advance Fee fraud and lots of money0.5 MONEY_FRAUD_5 Lots of money and many fraud phrases0.8 MONEY_FRAUD_8 Lots of money and very many fraud phrases1.0 MONEY_FRAUD_3 Lots of money and several fraud phrases-2.7 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
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I know that this message will come to you as a surprise. I am Mr.Kofo Ahmadu from Burkina Faso the Accounting and Auditing Manager bank of Africa (B.O.A), Ouagadougou
I hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of (usd$10.5m) million to your account within 10 to 14 banking days. This money has been dormant for years in our bank without claim. I want the bank to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer (the owner of the account) died
along with his supposed next of kin in an air crash since July, 2003.
I don't want the money to go into our bank treasurer account as an abandoned fund. So this is the reason why I contacted you so that the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not upon receipt of your reply, I will give you full details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will have 35% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to handle this business with me? And 10% will be set aside for any expenses that warrant on the process before the fund get into your bank account such as telephone calls bills (etc).
