An
Email with the Subject "URGENT REPLY NEEDED." was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:40:02 -0800
and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email.
The sender shows as Martin Paul <mapul6000@yahoo.com.sg>.
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beneficiary million thousand united states d...bankcontactaccountclaimthree million thousanddepositeddeposittransactionescrowcommissionswift30%accessurgentfund transferbusinessinvestmentbank bank accountdollar retired bank chartered bank the bank your bank good bank designated bank respectfullymapul6000@yahoo.com will yahoo.com($3,250,000.00)co-operation
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[date:] => Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:27:27 +0800 (SGT)
[from:] => Martin Paul
[reply-to:] => mapul2000@gmail.com
[subject:] => URGENT REPLY NEEDED.
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[x-ham-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: My greetings to you and your family, My name is Mr.MartinPaul, I am a retired bank manager of Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Ltd . Ido not want problems but just hope you can assist me, I write you this letterin good faith. I have a transaction of three million two hundred and fiftythousand United States dollars ($3,250,000.00). I realized this fund frommy bank excess profit after trading with the capital sum and I depositedthe funds in escrow account, nobody will have access to it even the bank doesnot have access to this account because it cannot be deducted until afterthe transfer. [...] Content analysis details: (-4.2 points, 4.0 required)pts rule name description---- ---------------------- ---------------------------------------------------0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, notrust[98.139.91.221 listed in list.dnswl.org]-3.0 URG_BIZ BODY: Contains urgent matter-3.0 MILLION_USD BODY: Talks about millions of dollars0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider(mapul6000[at]yahoo.com.sg)-2.0 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals0.1 FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT Envelope-from freemail username ends indigit (mapul6000[at]yahoo.com.sg)-2.0 US_DOLLARS_3 BODY: Mentions millions of $ ($NN,NNN,NNN.NN)0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY Huge... sums of money2.8 FREEMAIL_REPLYTO Reply-To/From or Reply-To/body contain differentfreemails0.0 ADVANCE_FEE_4_NEW Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)0.1 ADVANCE_FEE_5_NEW Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)0.0 T_MONEY_PERCENT X% of a lot of money for you0.8 ADVANCE_FEE_3_NEW Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)0.0 ADVANCE_FEE_4_NEW_MONEY Advance Fee fraud and lots of money0.0 ADVANCE_FEE_5_NEW_MONEY Advance Fee fraud and lots of money0.0 ADVANCE_FEE_3_NEW_MONEY Advance Fee fraud and lots of money1.0 ADVANCE_FEE_2_NEW_MONEY Advance Fee fraud and lots of money0.0 T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL To: misformatted and free email service0.4 MONEY_FRAUD_5 Lots of money and many fraud phrases0.5 MONEY_FRAUD_8 Lots of money and very many fraud phrases0.0 MONEY_FRAUD_3 Lots of money and several fraud phrases
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My name is Mr.Martin Paul, I am a retired bank manager of Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Ltd .
I do not want problems but just hope you can assist me, I write you this letter in good faith. I have a transaction of three million two hundred and fifty thousand United States dollars ($3,250,000.00). I realized this fund from my bank excess profit after trading with the capital sum and I deposited the funds in escrow account, nobody will have access to it even the bank does not have access to this account because it cannot be deducted until after the transfer.
However, I can not be directly get myself connected/involved to this money transfer/transaction for obvious reasons. So i am contacting you is to assist/help me receive the funds in your bank account in your country, which I know is possible if you liaise properly with me and get 30% of the total funds as your benefit/commission. The transfer would be made via swift and it will be a Bank-to-Bank wired transfer. ( Basically you are standing as my beneficiary to the fund )
I am ill that is why am contacting you to finalize this transaction to enable me have a very good medical attention and hope to join you in your place for a business investment.
All I need is for you to get a good bank account where this fund can be transferred into, and also for you to stand to claim as the original depositor of this fund so that within six working days the funds will be transferred to your designated bank account.
Thanks for your understanding, co-operation and trust i awaits your urgent reply so that we can proceed immediately.
Respectfully,
Mr.Martin Paul.
My greetings to you and your family,
My name is Mr.Martin Paul, I am a retired bank manager of Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Ltd .
I do not want problems but just hope you can assist me, I write you this letter in good faith. I have a transaction of three million two hundred and fifty thousand United States dollars ($3,250,000.00). I realized this fund from my bank excess profit after trading with the capital sum and I deposited the funds in escrow account, nobody will have access to it even the bank does not have access to this account because it cannot be deducted until after the transfer.
However, I can not be directly get myself connected/involved to this money transfer/transaction for obvious reasons. So i am contacting you is to assist/help me receive the funds in your bank account in your country, which I know is possible if you liaise properly with me and get 30% of the total funds as your benefit/commission. The transfer would be made via swift and it will be a Bank-to-Bank wired transfer. ( Basically you are standing as my beneficiary to the fund )
I am ill that is why am contacting you to finalize this transaction to enable me have a very good medical attention and hope to join you in your place for a business investment.
All I need is for you to get a good bank account where this fund can be transferred into, and also for you to stand to claim as the original depositor of this fund so that within six working days the funds will be transferred to your designated bank account.
Thanks for your understanding, co-operation and trust i awaits your urgent reply so that we can proceed immediately.