The following email scam was recieved this morning to my business address. The email scam is particularly despicable in that it attempts to exploit victims of the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash of a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles to New York-Cairo which crashed on October 31, 1999.
The SPAM email scam receives even provides a real link to a legitimate BBC news report of the tragic event of the crash of Flight 990. This is done to build trust through the appearance of some affiliation with BBC and to demonstrate that the subject referenced in the email scam is related to a real news story. The email references a deceased individual who is pictured in the BBC news story and claims to have funds from the named deceased which he would like to share with you.
The goal of the email scam is to get unsuspecting recipients of the spam email scam to respond, thus prequalifying them as a potential Internet fraud victim and easy mark. Once the recipient responds to the email which gets routed to the perpetrators masked email address (kazimobaid121@gmail.com - see below) , the potential Internet fraud victim will be asked for personally identifying information that can then be used by the perpetrator to engage in bank fraud and identity theft, all at the expense of the unsuspecting vicitm.
From Mr.Kazim Obaid
Reply-To: kazimobaid121@gmail.com (this is different that the sent from email address which should raise a red flag - the gmail address is where spam email scam perpetrator will access responses to email scam This is viewable only by inspecting the email header information which is masked by default by the software used to read email)
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From: "Mr.Kazim.Obaid"kazimobaid3@hotmail.com
Subject: From.Mr.Kazim.Obaid.
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:09:26 +0400
To: undisclosed-recipients:; (anytime you see this in the To: line of an email message, this means that sender used the BCC (blind carbon copy) to send same scam solicitation to many different recipients)
Greetings From Dubai, [note that email scam is not addressed to any particular reciepnts by name this email is blasted to many potential Internet fraud victims]
This message might meet you in (utmost surprise),however,it's just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction.I am a banker by profession from United Arab Emirates and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank.
I have the opportunity of transfering the left over funds($17.5million)our bank deceased customer late Richard Burson, who died on (Egypt Air Flight 990)along with his family on a plane crash below. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm. Hence i am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared between us in the ratio of 50/50 as a brotherhood.
If you agree to my business proposal.further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail.
Respectfully
yours
Mr.Kazim Obaid
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