see that little thing in there starting with 41.*? it's called an ip address and it is your friend.
whois says it's from starcomms dialup in lagos, despite someone's excellent english. sify is a freemail provider. the reply-to address isn't even at sify it's at myway, despite what he says in the body of the mail. % This is the AfriNIC Whois server. % Information related to '41.219.229.0 - 41.219.229.255' inetnum: 41.219.229.0 - 41.219.229.255 netname: ORG-SA57-AFRINIC-20050513 descr: Assigned to Lagos dial-pool customers country: NG admin-c: NS4-AFRINIC tech-c: CM9-AFRINIC status: Assigned PA mnt-by: STARCOMMS-MNT mnt-lower: STARCOMMS-MNT source: AFRINIC changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20080211 parent: 41.219.192.0 - 41.219.255.255 person: NAVNEET SINGH address: Plot 1261, Bishop Kale Close, off Saka Tinubu address: Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria phone: +234-1-804-9370 fax-no: +234-1-811-0301 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nic-hdl: NS4-AFRINIC source: AFRINIC changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20080317 person: Catalin Miclaus address: Plot 1261C, Bishop Kale Close, off Saka Tinubu phone: +234-7028000733 fax-no: +234-1-8110301 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nic-hdl: CM9-AFRINIC source: AFRINIC changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20080317 On Jul 25, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Gregory Hicks wrote: > >> From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:50:05 -0800 >> Subject: [Spam-R] Pure 419 >> >> It's good to know that the 419 scammers are concerned that we not get > infected ... > > This one is reputedly from India not Nigeria... (sify.com is > reportedly > in Chennai,Tamil Nadu, India...) > >> >> >> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Received: from 41.219.229.165 >> (SquirrelMail authenticated user [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> by webmail.mol.go.th with HTTP; >> Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:51:51 +0700 (ICT) >> Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:51:51 +0700 (ICT) >> Subject: [MALWARE FREE]Good Day >> From: "Thomas Walford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 >> X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender qmail 2.1.0 on >> mail.mol.go.th, sigver: 7.20190 >> X-BitDefender-Spam: No (248) >> X-BitDefender-SpamStamp: v1, build 2.5.34.49691, bayes score: 500, >> pbayes score: 248(248), neunet score: 500, total: 248 >> X-DSPAM-Result: Spam >> >> I am Thomas Walford, staff of SG International Private Bank. I am >> contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he >> placed under our banks management three years ago. >> >> I am contacting you independently of our investigation and no one is >> informed of this communication. I would like to intimate you with > certain >> facts that I believe would be of interest to you. In the year 2004, > the >> subject matter; came to our bank to engage in business discussions > with >> our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial >> portfolio of Six Million United States Dollars, which he wished to > have us >> turn over (invest) on his behalf. >> >> In mid 2005, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed > to >> make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Helsinki- > Finland. He >> directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security > firm. I >> informed him that my Bank would have to make special arrangements to > have >> this done and in order not to circumvent due process. >> >> Cash movement across boarders has become especially strict since the >> incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate and made the funds > available >> to the security firm. I undertook all the processes and made sure I >> followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the funds >> deposited with the security firm. >> The Security Firm is a specialist private firm that accepts deposits > from >> high net worth individuals and blue chip corporations that handle > valuable >> products or undertake transactions that need immediate access to >> cash. >> This small and highly private organization is familiar especially to > the >> highly placed and well-connected organizations. In line with > instructions, >> the money was deposited with the security firm. >> >> The deceased told me he wanted the money there in anticipation of his >> arrival from Norway later that week. This was the last communication > we >> had, this transpired around 25th of November 2005. In June last year, > and >> we got a call from the security firm informing us about the >> inactivity > of >> that particular portfolio. I made futile efforts to locate the > deceased. >> I immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal >> investigations department of SG International Private Bank. Four days >> later, information started to trickle in, apparently our client was > dead. >> >> A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart > attack in >> Canne, in Southern part of France. We were soon enough to identify >> the >> body and cause of death was confirmed. In his bio-data form, he > listed no >> next of kin. In the field of private banking, opening an account with > us >> means no one will know of its existence, accounts are rarely held > under a >> name; depositors use numbers and codes to make the accounts >> anonymous. >> This investigation has for the past months been unfruitful; we've >> used > our >> private investigation affiliate companies to get to the root of the >> problem. It is this investigation that resulted in my being furnished > with >> your details as a possible relative of the deceased. >> >> What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical practice but I > want >> you to understand something. It is only an outsider to the banking > world >> who finds the internal politics of the banking world aberrational. >> The >> world of private banking especially is fraught with huge rewards for > those >> that occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios. You >> should >> have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I > propose. >> There is Six Million United States dollars deposited in a security > firm, I >> alone have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to >> no > one >> unless I instruct them to do so. >> >> I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far as my Bank >> is >> concerned. >> My proposal: I now seek your permission to present you as a next of > kin to >> the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked to make > you >> the beneficiary to the funds $6,00 000 00 (Six Million United states >> Dollar); I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct The > security >> Firm to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. >> Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the proceeds > 60/40.I >> would have gone ahead to ask that the funds be released to me, but > that >> would have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming > the >> deposit. We can fine-tune this based on our interactions am aware of > the >> consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you find no interest in > this >> project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be >> vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you, >> delete >> this message and forget I ever contacted you. >> >> I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official >> channels; > I >> will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want > you >> contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you > contacting >> me through my official email account. Contact me only through the > numbers >> I will provide for you and also through this email address. I do not > want >> any direct link between you and myself. My official lines are not > secured >> lines as they are periodically monitored to assess our level of > customer >> care in line with our Total Quality Management Policy. >> >> Please observe this instruction religiously. Do not betray my > confidence. >> Kindly send your response to my private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> I await your response. >> >> Thomas Walford >> >> -- >> This mail was scanned by BitDefender >> For more informations please visit http://www.bitdefender.com >> >> >> ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by >> me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth >> http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm >> _______________________________________________ >> Spam Research mailing list >> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spam >> Notice: Spam Research is an open and public mailing list. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer > Cadence Design Systems | Direct: 408.576.3609 > 555 River Oaks Pkwy M/S 9B1 > San Jose, CA 95134 > > I am perfectly capable of learning from my mistakes. I will surely > learn a great deal today. > > "A democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding on what to have for > lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the results of the > decision." > > "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they > be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
