A Scam Email with the Subject
"For your assistance"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Tue, 29 May 2007 03:03:10 -0700 and has been classified as a
Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam.
The sender was
"Tijani Yussuf" <tijaniyussuf18@hotmail.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
nigeriaassistancepresidentcontactaccountresidentfundinvestmentsecuremaildollarconfidential will years oldfinancial
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 agencies.
return-path:
<tijaniyussuf18@hotmail.com>
envelope-to:
submissions@HUN1P0T
delivery-date:
Tue, 29 May 2007 03:03:10 -0700
reply-to:
tijaniyussuf@hotmail.com
from:
"Tijani Yussuf" <tijaniyussuf18@hotmail.com>
subject:
For your assistance
date:
Tue, 29 May 2007 10:03:03 +0000
mime-version:
1.0
content-type:
text/html; format=flowed
message-id:
<BAY139-F365FBF52206E40EDABC9C5C82F0@phx.gbl>
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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I am Prof Tijani Yussuf, the financial adviser to the president of <*xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><*xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />FederalRepublic of
Nigeria. I am 56 years old. I have an account that worth $5.1m US dollars. And I want to confidentially move this fund to your country for a very good investment. I have made a very solid arrangement on how this fund will be moved to your country without any problem.<*xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
My purpose of writing this mail to you is to assist me secure this funds in your country for a very good investment. Please do get back to me immediately if you can help me to secure this money in your country, contact me immediately on my private email. tijaniyussuf@hotmail.com . I will give more details as soon as I confirm your interest to help me.
