An
Email with the Subject "Dear Sir/Madam" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:16:24 -0700
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as precious charles <precious.charles@Shaw.ca>.
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africagoldbankcontactwinpartnerpaymentrepresentativeservice art transferproposalbusinesssentbuyexportbank transfercharlesprecious@yahoo.cn will yahoo.[or their representative]dear
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[from:] => precious charles
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[reply-to:] => charlesprecious@yahoo.cn
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[date:] => Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:16:21 +0100
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[subject:] => Dear Sir/Madam
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[x-spam-subject:] => ***SPAM*** Dear Sir/Madam
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[x-spam-report:] => Spam detection software, running on the system "lester.newsblaze.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: I am writing to you at this time to advertise the availability of our main product, alluvial gold in bulk quantities. As we represent a large number of local artisan miners, we are prepared to provide quantities of up to 400 kilograms of 22.karat alluvial gold monthly. Following is information concerning our product: [...] Content analysis details: (4.6 points, 4.0 required) pts rule name description---- ---------------------- ---------------------------------------------------3.0 DEAR_SOMETHING BODY: Contains 'Dear (something)'-0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain-0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 1.2 MISSING_HEADERS Missing To: header 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 1.9 REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 0.0 FSL_FREEMAIL_1 FSL_FREEMAIL_1 2.5 FREEMAIL_FORGED_REPLYTO Freemail in Reply-To, but not From 0.0 ADVANCE_FEE_4_NEW Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419) 2.0 ADVANCE_FEE_3_NEW Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)
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I am writing to you at this time to advertise the availability of our main product, alluvial gold in bulk quantities. As we represent a large number of local artisan miners, we are prepared to provide quantities of up to 400 kilograms of 22.karat alluvial gold monthly. Following is information concerning our product:
Quantity: 400 kilograms available monthly Quality: 22. karat alluvial Au Origin: Ghana, West Africa Price: $6,500 per kilogram
Our firm is in possession of the Gold Export Certificate issued by the Government of the Republic of Ghana necessary to export gold from Ghana, thus we can provide service to any part of the world. We are prepared to offer the quantity of gold required to the Buyer [or their representative] upon their arrival here in Accra. After the Buyer has confirmed the quantity and the quality of the gold with their refinery, and is satisfied, only then will we accept payment, by bank transfer, from the Buyer to us. Further, we currently seek outside-based serious investors on a partnership basis in order to increase our production capacity. If you are interested in this proposal, or have any further questions, kindly contact me at charlesprecious@yahoo.cn. Looking forward to doing business with you. Yours truly, Charles Precious
I am writing to you at this time to advertise the availability of our main product, alluvial gold in bulk quantities. As we represent a large number of local artisan miners, we are prepared to provide quantities of up to 400 kilograms of 22.karat alluvial gold monthly. Following is information concerning our product:
Quantity: 400 kilograms available monthly Quality: 22. karat alluvial Au Origin: Ghana, West Africa Price: $6,500 per kilogram
Our firm is in possession of the Gold Export Certificate issued by the Government of the Republic of Ghana necessary to export gold from Ghana, thus we can provide service to any part of the world. We are prepared to offer the quantity of gold required to the Buyer [or their representative] upon their arrival here in Accra. After the Buyer has confirmed the quantity and the quality of the gold with their refinery, and is satisfied, only then will we accept payment, by bank transfer, from the Buyer to us. Further, we currently seek outside-based serious investors on a partnership basis in order to increase our production capacity. If you are interested in this proposal, or have any further questions, kindly contact me at charlesprecious@yahoo.cn. Looking forward to doing business with you. Yours truly, Charles Precious
