Spam: It is inventive.

Robert Owen — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:17:09 +0000

Here is the latest Scam e-mail I’ve gotten. Don’t be fooled! This is a scam! This e-mail came to one of my e-mail accounts today from different senders and IP addresses but the machine sending names were the same. AND, the content was identical. It looks as though some has a mass-mailer sitting on their machine. Just a reminder to make sure your updates are current!!

Here are the mail headers:

1st:
Received: from xxxxxxxx; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:05:55 -0400
Received: from host9.oneononeinternet.com [209.239.38.96]
by xxxxxxxxx.com with XWall v3.44. ;
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:02:41 -0400
Received: from mmsrep.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by host9.oneononeinternet.com (8.12.11.20060614/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n5KJonLJ010686;
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:50:49 -0400
From: “Nina Powell s”
Reply-To: jjppalmer001@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:50:49 -0400
Message-Id: <20090620195049.M76707@info.org>
X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20060502
X-OriginatingIP: 41.219.227.176 (cris)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=iso-8859-1
Received-SPF: fail (domain of npowell@info.org does not designate 209.239.38.96 as permitted sender)
X-XWall-Bayes: 42
X-XWall-Heuristic: 50
Subject: Nina Powell’s Philanthropic Gesture [spf]
Precedence: bulk
X-ME-Bayesian: 0.000000
Return-Path: <>
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 8.5.339 [270.12.82/2190]

Then it came again with this header:

2nd:
Received: from xxxxxxxxxxx; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0400
Received: from host9.oneononeinternet.com [209.239.38.96]
by xxxxxxxxx.com with XWall v3.44. ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:50:57 -0400
Received: from mmsrep.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by host9.oneononeinternet.com (8.12.11.20060614/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n5M8qv7q021658;
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:52:57 -0400
From: “Jeff Palmer”
Reply-To: jjppalmer001@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:52:57 -0400
Message-Id: <20090622085257.M2115@info.org>
X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20060502
X-OriginatingIP: 41.191.108.130 (cris)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=iso-8859-1
Received-SPF: fail (domain of palmerjefferson@info.org does not designate 209.239.38.96 as permitted sender) X-XWall-Bayes: 59 X-XWall-Heuristic: 50
Subject: Nina Powell’s Philanthropic Gesture [spf]
Precedence: bulk
X-ME-Bayesian: 0.000000
Return-Path: <>
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 8.5.339 [270.12.87/2195]

Hello,

I am Jeff Palmer, a U.K international attorney. This email is reaching you because you have been selected to be the beneficiary to the late Nina Powell’s $5m funds deposited with Waltham Savings and Credit Union here in the United Kingdom. I was the personal attorney to Nina Powell before she died of cancer.
Days before her death, she wrote a will indicating what she wanted her money to be used for. Her will states that it is the duty of my chambers to select a trustworthy beneficiary to receive her funds. Her will also reads that her beneficiary is under compulsion to donate 50% of her money to the cancer society. We conducted an email random draw here in my chambers where a little girl of 6yrs old was asked to pick an email address, of the wholesome of the gathered email addresses, yours was picked and that qualified you to be the beneficiary of the late Nina Powell’s money.

Waltham Savings and Credit Union will release the money to you as the beneficiary. After the money has been transferred to you, you MUST donate 50% to the cancer society, keep 40% to yourself while the balance of 10% comes to me as attorney in this project. Waltham has issued a 14 working days ultimatum for the money to be claimed, so you are to respond so that we can begin the process to get the money transferred to you within that time frame.

Jeff Palmer
+44 702 306 6778

As always, watch out for scam artists they are everywhere on the internet! If you get something that sounds “Too good to be true”. Then, it probably is. Delete it and go on about your day!

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