419 How to discover fraud

419 Outline of fraud

This is a very brief explanation of 419 fraud and I will not hurt the surface here as well. Some aspects of 419 fraud are beyond the scope of this article and we will discuss them in future articles. 419 frauds (Nigeria for One Nine) were named after the Nigeria Penal Code fraud article. Fraud has also been called a pre-commission fraud, as fraudsters often demand prepayment for suspicious reasons such as fees, litigation costs, bribes for specific officials. The 419 frauds start with spammers from fraudsters and advertise a huge amount of money, but the impression that fraudsters need to make some advance payment before reaching this non-existent fund . These prepayment payments are usually a drop in the bucket compared to the huge amount finally received. This makes the fraud very appealing for inadvertent and informative people who need extra cash.

419 Importance of finding fraud

Prevention is the most important reason behind the success of 419 frauds, but this is not the only reason. Registrars, hosting companies, Internet service providers and law enforcement agencies need to become familiar with the common features of 419 frauds, as their support and cooperation plays a major role in the fight against 419 frauds.

Unfortunately, many registrars and hosting companies have failed to confront the cheaters of 419 cheaters. The registrar responds to stop the domain of known fraudsters and hosting companies do not implement Acceptable Use Policies (AUP). There are reasons that registrars and hosting companies hesitate to stop the accounts of 419 cheaters. Since these cheaters are agents, they host fraudulent websites and support spamming services. Unfortunately, even if you are Sherlock Holmes, you will not win. They are simply ignorant of the problem of fraud and do not mind the life destroyed by these scams.

Do not say to any outside unethical registrar and hosting company it is difficult to identify the advance fee fraud website. If you own a grocery store, will you sell it to customers who know marijuana? Sometimes it was a silly question. If you do not care about hosting malicious websites, there is probably no problem selling cannabis to customers. But what's the big difference here? If the police are selling you illegal drugs, you can kiss the store's farewell, but for registrars who refuse to stop domains of fraudulent websites, the police will not do anything It is a common mistake to not do. The actual reason the registrar escapes in homicide is because the complainant does not want to omit all the trouble of complaints to the police, even if there is a law, you can use it for your advantage I will. Yes, I know that your local police do not have jurisdiction over foreign webmasters, but even in those cases, you know deep pockets and registrars it.

I understand that registrars can not temporarily suspend a domain simply by publishing requests and hints from the domain. I believe that the abuse department attacks fraud reports everyday, and also receives false reports fairly. General members need to check the facts in a straightforward manner before reporting fraudulent websites to registrars. This shortens the processing time of abuse complaints and makes the task of abuse department much easier. We are not saying that you have to conduct a full-blown survey except in cases where you feel that you need to do so, gather all the evidence and present the information logically and systematically to the abuse sector Just do it. A lot of people resemble simple e - mails. "Hey, check this site, I think that is wrong." Egypt " Hey, this guy sent me a scam email. This is his email address. him " . You enlightened about the possibility of fraud, but please tell the abuse department why you believe the website is corrupt. In addition to sending the suspect's e-mail address, you can send a copy of the e-mail sent to you, forward the action inline, forward it as an attachment, or e-mail along the body. The abuse department finally finds the e-mail address of the copy suspect who you sent.

With the proper identification of 419 fraud by ordinary citizens, these frauds will be ineffective and ultimately 419 activities will be reduced. So, let's take a closer look at the features of the 419 fraud.

419 Things to look for by fraud

1. E-mail subject, sender's name and e-mail address:

Analyzing the sender 's name and e - mail address along with the subject of the fraudulent e - mail allows you to easily identify 419 scams before opening fraudulent mail. At a glance, discovering 419 frauds will minimize the risk of falling due to fraud and save time (you do not need to read all the scammers' huge jumbo). This also simplifies the task of reporting fraud to the cyber security authorities.

Typical characteristics of the subject, name, and e-mail address used for 419 frauds:

• The fraudster loves hiding the true identity with the name of a celebrity such as the national president, cabinet minister, ambassador, director.
• The subject is often typed in capital letters.
• We use free e-mail service such as Yahoo, GMail, Hotmail / Live, free ISP e-mail account. These free e-mail accounts are used when you expect e-mails from official e-mail addresses and are expected to be surprisingly good enough.
• Mr, Mrs, Dr, Barr, Sgt. , Lt etc, there are frequent overdrive of official and professional titles.
• Subjects often have erroneous urgency.
• The name of the sender is repeated in the subject.
• Many con artists mistake subjects as sender field, and vice versa.
• General greetings, "my dear" , "Dear lover" , "Greeting to you" "My beloved brother" Or "Dear Sir / Madam" It may be used as a subject.
• Many fraudsters are hypocrites who deserve to be dedicated Christians and use the following subject line. " Greeting in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ " , "My dearest loved one main " , "The goodness of God is above you" , Or "You are the chosen master of one person "
• In the subject line "payment" , "lottery" , "Bank deposit" , "compensation" , "Fund" Other financial terms.
• The subject may contain instructions to contact specific individuals, departments or organizations. For example "Contact my secretary" , "Contact a trust agent" , "Contact the bank personnel" , "Contact the ATM Department ..." or "Contact FedEx" .
• Scammers are always thinking of the most strange and illegal email addresses, especially in scenarios where it is clearly known that an email account is fake. For example, the official impersonator of the FBI uses a stupid email address like fbiofficial015@example.com. Because FBI has its own domain and e-mail server, you can not use legitimate reasons to use e-mail account from another domain or free e-mail service such as Yahoo! Egyptian GMail.
• Using an e-mail address consisting of an official title, full name, and last name is a common practice among 419 cheaters. For example, John Doe uses an email address like mrjohndoe@example.com.
• It is very popular among 419 crooks. "From the desk" .
• Lottery fraud often has a subject number reference number. For example "Award status notice (Ref: LSUK / 2031/8161/05)"

This is not an exhaustive list of features, but it is certainly the most common feature listed in the subject, email address, the name of the 419 cheaters.

2. You still need to ask yourself questions before analyzing the fraud Question:

To answer these questions, you need to open an e-mail and read its contents. At this point you do not have to pay attention to the specific details in the e-mail, you only need to determine the contents of the e-mail.

• E-mail is annoying unexpected work, loans or business offerings from unknown individuals?
• Is it about a lottery or competition you never entered? (Remember: randomly extracting your email address from the list is not counted as a valid entry for the competition.)
• Have you received a large contribution from non-profit organizations?
• Are you appointed as a neighbor of a stranger?
• Does it need to help foreigners clean up cargo holds to store millions of dollars cargo declared as something else for diplomatic courier?
• Do you think that it is an American soldier's e-mail that needs to find millions of US soldiers serving military service in Iraq and to raise funds from that country?
• Is this mail an annoying request to care for orphans, send the Bible to the church, or provide financial support to African sick and hungry people?
• Is the owner of the fund appointed as a beneficiary of the fund that is currently dying of cancer?
• Is it an e-mail regarding the collection of money or assets that have never been stolen from you?
• Have you announced annoying bank draft for your charitable activities? E-mail about unpaid / delayed payment of contract with some governments, have you never signed such a contract or do not trade at all?

If you answer 'yes' to any of these questions, you are most certainly working on fraud.

Now ask yourself the following questions:

• Did you expect email?
• Do you know the sender directly?
• Did the sender say your name in the first email?
• Does the sender have other personal information in your name? If so, did the sender provide a valid and reliable source of information where you got the information?

If you answered NO to at least 50% of these questions, you are probably dealing with 419 fraud.

If you think that it is true, it is probably a rule of gold please remember!

3. Analysis of contents of e-mails:

If the sender's name and e-mail address, the subject of the e-mail, or the sender's story do not know the legal reasons of e-mail, we need to analyze the e-mail content in more detail.

The following features are signs of fraudulent mail 419

• The reply-to e-mail address is different from the original e-mail address. Scammers does this to ensure that reply is received when the service provider shuts down the email account. Some cheaters impersonate the "From" e - mail address with an official e - mail address.
• If the sender does not provide a reply-to e-mail address, specify an alternate e-mail address in the body of the e-mail.
• The sender may provide a completely different alias as well as another Reply-To address. The scammer wants to make an impression that you are completely sending your answer to another person, but in reality both are the same scammers who operate the same e-mail account.
• The entire e-mail or most of it is entered in capital letters.
• E-mail begins with a general greeting (as already explained). Most scammers simply shoot in the dark when distributing their fraudulent mail. Therefore, I do not know your name because I do not know it by email. (There were 419 fraudulent mails whose scammers knew their name, surname, and even the recipient's physical address.
• The sender pretended to worry about your family's well-being with the following greetings: "Good morning, how are you today, I think everything is going well with you and your family" Believe me, 419 cheaters do not care about your family. They are trying to gain your trust just by looking after them. The other 419 fraudsters are taking apologies from the beginning. For example: "I am sorry if my mail does not match your business or personal ethics " .
• The recipient of the e-mail must respond with personal information such as name, telephone number, fax number, residential address, date of birth, gender, name and address of Next of Kin, bank details, occupation, marriage status And nationality. Since some cheaters require a scanned copy of your photo ID, international passport or driver's license, I also want your identification number or social security number as well as after my photo.
• Scammers often request something ridiculous information from the victims. Your e-mail address (they already contacted you, do they need your e-mail address again?), The country you live in (your home address and / or If you already requested nationality) The amount you won (in the case of a lottery fraud).
• The most common telephone numbers by 419 cheaters from South Africa (country code + 27), Benin republic (country code + 229), Nigeria (country code + 234), the Netherlands (country code +31) are provided However, the phone numbers of Sweden (country code + 46), China (country code +86), Turkey (country code +90), Malaysia (country code +60) are also displayed.
• Fraudsters are always focused on strictly keeping secret the knowledge of prize money and inheritance funds. There is a good reason for this. You do not want to talk to others about this as someone recognizes you are being committed and informs you that the email is a fraud.
• 419 cheaters insist on using a specific remittance service (I am not allowed to mention at EzineArticles.com).
• Fraudulent mail contains many misspellings and terrible grammar. However, this is not a rule of thumb. Recently, a lot of 419 cheaters have raised standards and are creating professional e-mails.
• 419 frauds contain huge amount of money, but victims usually share only a small part of this fund. However, since suspicious funds are so huge, even a small part of the fund can mean millions of dollars for the victims. This makes fraud very attractive to the victims.
• Many 419 cheaters have kept in touch with you in the past and made the impression that they did not transfer huge amounts of money to you at the previous opportunity. Because I think that you are not working with these foolish, why will you answer first? This only prove that 419 cheaters are using the weak points of greedy people.
• 419 cheaters sometimes become philosophers as well. For example, in a fraudulent mail introductory note, the following can be said. "This letter must come to you as a surprise, but I think that it is only one day for people to meet and become a wonderful friend or business partner. Yeah, whatever! It is the only day that people meet, become cheaters and victims.

Characteristics of specific types of 419 fraud:

• For lottery scams, in most cases, we have the following line. "... winners were elected through a special Internet voting system from 40,000 individuals and corporate e-mail addresses" Some lottery scammers put it this way: "... drawing [sic] It ran from a database of over 1,000,000 e-mail addresses drawn from all continents around the world and random sampling from our zone-divided glove, our computerized e-mail selection device TOTAL. "
• Most lottery fraud has such stupid disclaimer: "Note: You leave lottery information from the general public, especially your winning number has already won the prize."
• In many Kin-Scan's next, you miraculously have the same family name as the dead, but the con artist is very convenient to express the last name promised by the first email. The trick here is to have the victim reply personal information and use the victim's last name for the forged death certificate and related document.
• It is not a rule of thumb, but most company 's representative fraudsters offer 10% of their "income" to the victims. I like to use 10% for some reason, but there are frauds that offer only 5%, or "more generous" cheats offering up to 30%.
• Inheritance fund fraud usually includes those who are involved in a corrupt banker who is deemed to have encountered a false millionaire's abandonment account or who can not access the family's heritage for various reasons. Scammers often need your help to gain money from your country.
• Inheritance fund fraudsters may provide links to news stories to support facts (or I should lie). For example, a fraudster uses an airplane crash as the basis of his story and provides a link on a site like CNN.com.
• In a bank fraud, the con artist failed in the last deal. It is now necessary to contact the secretary leaving the bank draft. I am busy with other "investment" projects.
• Some inheritance fund scramer seems to be sending money using a prepaid Visa or Maestro ATM card.
• Job fraud usually works in a foreign country, so the victims must apply for a visa. This is how the cheaters make money. Victims must pay a small fee to certain companies that arrange visas. Compared to the remuneration provided to the victim, I usually refer to a small fee as the fee is usually only a few.
• Compensation fraud often includes fraudsters who pretended to work for the United Nations or FBI. These cheaters pretend to be appropriate for the victims of 419 frauds. How can you get it?
• The ATM card Scammers seems to be very kind by paying a specific fee and a legal fee for the medicine on your behalf. The drug fee procedure fee is to prove that money issued under your name does not come from money laundering activities. This is for the cliff only, and the con artist tries to give peace of mind to the victim. They can cook bloody certificates, if you help you move funds through your bank account, you will still be an accomplice in money laundering.
• 419 fraudsters have ambiguous plans to always get funds from the country using the story of Iraqi soldiers who have found enormous amounts. The most common thing is transport via diplomatic courier with diplomatic immunity.
• Several 419 frauds of some kind of outstanding payment indicate the following situation. "... Since you found that you have been waiting forever for this payment to succeed, I have also confirmed that it meets all legal requirements for your outstanding payment.
• Diplomatic exclusion payment fraudsters often use inadvertent excuses that electronic fund transfer is claiming in payment to an unauthorized bank account. These frauds may include notices such as the following. Note: Money is in two security certificate boxes. Scammers often use the contents of these boxes "Sensitive photographic film material" .
• Some fraudsters of inheritance funds will allocate funds to fraudsters 60%, victims 30%, commissions 10%.

This is not a comprehensive list of the characteristics of 419. Most of the specific details of this article will become obsolete over time. Today, many 419 fraudsters claim in the first e-mail that they paid a prepayment fee for the victims. The effectiveness of these frauds has declined over time as many victims are bailed out when the scammers claim prepayment and the fraudsters had to improvise. But these fools refer to some payment at some stage of fraud and people alarming will be rescued again.

Since 419 fraudsters never meet any kind of criteria, it is difficult to establish a strict rule to identify 419 fraud. 419 frauds are similar to other types of spam, but there are millions of spammers, but many spammers use the same templates and methods. After a while templates and techniques become general knowledge and spammers need to find new innovative ways to penetrate mailboxes and our minds.

419 One of keeping up with the evolution of fraud is common sense. There is always at least one trick you did not think so no one can tell you all the tricks in the book. Being alert by reading between lines, taking a somewhat skeptical attitude towards e-mail from unknown sources can be a very effective weapon against online fraud.

During the writing of this article 419 cheaters were not hurt.