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Monday, July 30, 2012

Fw: *****SPAM***** RE: FULL PAYMENT OF YOUR OUTSTANDING FUND

The world is full of lunatics



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-----Original Message-----
From: "Central Bank Payment"<wumtnig09@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:03:16
Subject: *****SPAM***** RE: FULL PAYMENT OF YOUR OUTSTANDING FUND

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Content preview: RE: FULL PAYMENT OF YOUR OUTSTANDING FUND Attention: Beneficiary,
We thank you for your co-operation on the successful transfer of first batch
of your part payment of Two Million One Hundred Thousand US Dollar ($2,100,000.00)
transferred into your bank account as stated below which you have acknowledged
receipt of the fund. [...]

Content analysis details: (18.4 points, 5.0 required)

pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
2.9 RCVD_IN_XBL RBL: Received via a relay in Spamhaus XBL
[207.148.206.156 listed in zen.spamhaus.org]
1.8 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals
1.4 FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD 'From' yahoo.com does not match 'Received' headers
1.1 NA_DOLLARS BODY: Talks about a million North American dollars
1.2 US_DOLLARS_3 BODY: Mentions millions of $ ($NN,NNN,NNN.NN)
2.0 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
2.2 FAKE_REPLY_C FAKE_REPLY_C
4.2 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook

Fw: From Mr Ahmed Kabore


Ouagadougou ? Burkina Faso ? Where the heck is that ?
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From: ahmed kabore <kaboreahmedaa@voila.fr>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 02:39:55 +0800 (SGT)
To: <Invalid address>
ReplyTo: ahmedkabore2020@voila.fr
Subject: From Mr Ahmed Kabore





Dear Partner

I received encouraging information about you and how trusts worthy you are. I am delighted with such useful information. My name is Mr Ahmed Kabore I am the manager of auditing and accounting department of BANQUE SAHELO SAHARIENNER POUR L'INVESTISSEMENT ET COMMERCE   BURKINA FASO     AFRICA   ( B.S.I.C) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

In my department i discovered an abandoned sum US$10.5 million us dollars) in an account that belongs to a Gold Mining foreign customer who died along with his entire family on July 2003 in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased.

Unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you, so that the money can be release to your account as the next of kin. And I agreed to offer you 50% of this money as my foreign partner after confirmation of the fund in your bank account.You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr Ahmed Kabore

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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:07:58 -0500
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