An
Email with the Subject "†No Subject†" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:40:58 -0800
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as Richard Patterson Dr <rpatt01@emory.edu>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in
this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be
added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
Scam TagCloud
assistance million hundred thousand bankcontactfour millionfive hundred thousand transfermailbank dollar seng bank confidentialrespectfullytanwong889@yahoo.comyahoo.com(tanwong889@yahoo.com.hk)($24,500,000,00) mr tan wong
NO CHART DATA - EMAIL HAS NOT YET BEEN ANALYSED
Scam Email Headers
This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email.
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate investigating or law enforcement agencies on request.
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[return-path:] =>
[envelope-to:] => submissions@scamdex.com,submitted@scamdex.com
[delivery-date:] => Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:40:58 -0800
[received:] => Array
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[0] => from mr1.cc.emory.edu ([170.140.52.90])by chester.loopbiz.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)(Exim 4.69)(envelope-from )id 1PiS5p-0007JJ-7H; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:40:58 -0800
[1] => from wm1.cc.emory.edu (emoryfloatdmz.cc.emory.edu [170.140.52.254])by mr1.cc.emory.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p0RD4e93010704;Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:04:41 -0500
[2] => from ip-174-142-32-148.static.privatedns.com(ip-174-142-32-148.static.privatedns.com [174.142.32.148]) bywebmail.service.emory.edu (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 201108:04:40 -0500
)
[message-id:] => <20110127080440.11584insioin8i94@webmail.service.emory.edu>
[date:] => Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:04:40 -0500
[from:] => Richard Patterson Dr
[to:] => undisclosed-recipients:;
[subject:] =>
[mime-version:] => 1.0
[content-type:] => text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1;DelSp="Yes";format="flowed"
[content-disposition:] => inline
[content-transfer-encoding:] => 7bit
[user-agent:] => Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.3.2)
[x-emory-mailscanner-information:] => Please contact the ISP for more information
[x-emory-mailscanner-id:] => p0RD4e93010704
[x-emory-mailscanner:] => Found to be clean
[x-emory-mailscanner-spamcheck:] => not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached,score=4.499, required 8, autolearn=disabled, ADVANCE_FEE_2 2.05,MISSING_SUBJECT 1.28, US_DOLLARS_3 1.17)
[x-emory-mailscanner-spamscore:] => ssss
[x-emory-mailscanner-from:] => rpatt01@emory.edu
[x-spam-status:] => Array
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[0] => No
[1] => No, score=-1.3
)
[x-spam-score:] => -12
[x-spam-bar:] => -
[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: From Mr Tan Wong (tanwong889@yahoo.com.hk) I am Mr.Tan Wongdirector of operations of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd.I am seeking your assistancein transfering the sum of Twenty Four millions Five Hundred Thousand UnitedState Dollar ($24,500,000,00) For more details please contact me via my confidentialemail(tanwong889@yahoo.com.hk) [...] Content analysis details: (-1.3 points, 4.0 required)pts rule name description---- ---------------------- ---------------------------------------------------2.3 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, mediumtrust[170.140.52.90 listed in list.dnswl.org]-0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relaydomain-0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record-2.0 US_DOLLARS_3 BODY: Mentions millions of $ ($NN,NNN,NNN.NN)0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY Huge... sums of money0.5 ADVANCE_FEE_3_NEW Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)0.5 ADVANCE_FEE_2_NEW_MONEY Advance Fee fraud and lots of money1.0 ADVANCE_FEE_3_NEW_MONEY Advance Fee fraud and lots of money1.0 MONEY_FRAUD_3 Lots of money and several fraud phrases
[x-spam-flag:] => NO
)
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seeking your assistance in transfering the sum of Twenty Four millions
details please contact me via my confidential
Respectfully,
Mr.Tan Wong.
From Mr Tan Wong
(tanwong889@yahoo.com.hk)
I am Mr.Tan Wong director of operations of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd.I am
seeking your assistance in transfering the sum of Twenty Four millions
Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollar ($24,500,000,00) For more
details please contact me via my confidential
email(tanwong889@yahoo.com.hk)
Respectfully,
Mr.Tan Wong.