THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR FUND

This is a clever twist to the normal 419 stereotypes. For starters the Reply-To address is different from the From e-mail address, which is a very common characteristic of a 419 scam, but in this case this scammer had a good reason for doing this. There is no need to contact the sender of the e-mail, he is only the 'Good Samaritan' telling thousands of people, already scammed by 419 scammers, to contact Mr. Anthony Powell. So he makes it easy and convenient for the recipient to reply to the right person. We guess the scammer believes it will remove the suspicion of a different e-mail address if he puts it there for a logical reason.

Secondly, the From address is not a free e-mail account, but a his own domain namely stevemorgan.st to increase that false sense of authenticity even more. The only problem is, this is an expired domain or one that has never been registered before, so the e-mail address is clearly spoofed. But the scammer bargains that the victim will never check if the domain actually exists. But one have to wonder why the scammer chose to use the .st (Sao Tome) top-level domain. Just shows how random these bloody swindlers can be.



Now why would we want to know your exact residential address? Are we supposed to trust you more if you lived at 108 Crockett Court. Apt 303, New Braunfels Texas, United States? The e-mail originated from the IP address 213.91.162.201 (domino.bdz.bg) located in Bulgaria. What, did Mr. Morgan go on vacation in Bulgaria after receiving his $1.5 million? Once again the scammer bargains that the victim will never even be bothered by the originating IP address.

But Mr. Anthony Powell on the other hand, has an interesting e-mail address. It is an Israeli e-mail service powered by Google (there had to be a free e-mail service somewhere in this scam). But didn't Steve Morgan mention that Mr. Powell is a member of Compensation Award Committee currently in Nigeria? After all his telephone number is +2347063365378 and +234 is the country code for Nigeria. So what is he doing in Israel en why doesn't he have an official FBI e-mail address? These are the kind of questions you need to ask yourself when you receive an e-mail like this.



Yes, we are taking note Steve, this is a textbook 419 trick. Only pay a few hundred dollars in exchange for millions. For a lot of people $320.00 is a lot of money. The scammer will be smiling all the way to the bank and you will never see a single cent of the millions he promised.



So you just saw a random person's name and e-mail address among a bunch of other people's contact details and you just knew you had to contact that specific person. Is that some kind of sixth sense or is it a superpower only possessed by 419 scammers?



The e-mail's subject line reads: THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR FUND. Now these two paragraphs are the only parts where the scammer speaks the absolute truth, except for the part about Mr. Anthony Powell of course. You should stop all correspondence with those people, including Mr. Steve Morgan and Mr. Anthony Powell, who may just as well be one and the same person.

Ironically this scammer is insulting himself and his fellow scammers to make a quick buck. How lame can you get? But we reckon there may be stiff competition among 419 scammers these days, so each one is doing his best to retain his market share, while others are trying to claim a piece of the already overcrowded 419 Scamming Industry.

One final note though, the grammar may not be perfect, but it seems as if 419 scammers are improving their spelling abilities (once again a matter of survival of the fittest scammer). Perhaps some of them discovered what a spell checker is really for. Too bad, some of their spelling errors can be quite amusing.