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The Nigerian cure for AIDS (Dr Sadiq Harrison)
No desaster is too tragic to be taken advantage of by criminal scammers, as the scams after the Indian Ocean tsunami showed. The following email promising a cure for AIDS, supposedly by a doctor from India who uses a UK-based email address, was actually sent from an ISP in Nigeria. See also:
Example
From: "Dr Sadiq Harrison" <[email protected]> Message headers: Received: from client 213.185.106.66 for direccion (webmail client); Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:29:35 -0000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: ATTENTION. Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:29:35 -0500 Message-ID: <[email protected]> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: ATTENTION. Thread-Index: AcUXWT5CtZRUunPjRDmM6dp09G32sQ== From: "Dr Sadiq Harrison" <[email protected]> To: "undisclosed-recipients" <undisclosed-recipients:;> Reply-To: "Dr Sadiq Harrison" <[email protected]>
WHOIS details for sending network (IP 213.185.106.66) inetnum: 213.185.106.0 - 213.185.106.255 netname: INTELSAT-CUST-Timasy-NG descr: Reassignment to Timasy customer, Nigeria country: NG admin-c: OO120-RIPE tech-c: AO895-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA remarks: ************************************************************* remarks: * * remarks: * For issues of abuse related to this IP address block, * remarks: * including spam, please send email to: * remarks: * * remarks: * [email protected] * remarks: * [email protected] * remarks: * * remarks: ************************************************************* mnt-by: AS22351-MNT mnt-lower: AS22351-MNT mnt-routes: AS22351-MNT changed: [email protected] 20030915 source: RIPE person: Osita Okeke address: 8b Akerele Street Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria phone: +234 7736477 e-mail: [email protected] nic-hdl: OO120-RIPE mnt-by: AS22351-MNT changed: [email protected] 20040915 source: RIPE person: Anthony Onyeka address: 8b Akerele Street Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria phone: +234 1 891 1621 e-mail: [email protected] nic-hdl: AO895-RIPE mnt-by: AS22351-MNT changed: [email protected] 20040915 source: RIPE Reply from the "doctor": Dear Sir, Message headers: Received: from [81.199.75.252] by web26610.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:13:24 GMT Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:13:24 +0000 (GMT) From: "DR .SADIQ HARRISON" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: ATTENTION.
WHOIS details for sending IP address: inetnum: 81.199.72.0 - 81.199.75.255 netname: ADESEMI-01 descr: Adesemi, Nigeria country: ng admin-c: EU75-RIPE tech-c: EU75-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA notify: [email protected] mnt-by: AS12491-MNT changed: [email protected] 20040824 source: RIPE person: Ekere Ukpong address: 8 Forcados Road address: Apapa address: Lagos, Nigeria phone: +234 82352684 e-mail: [email protected] nic-hdl: EU75-RIPE notify: [email protected] changed: [email protected] 20040823 source: RIPE Next email from the criminal:
Received: from [81.199.108.12] by web26606.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:17:04 GMT Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:17:04 +0000 (GMT) From: "DR .SADIQ HARRISON" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: ATTENTION.
WHOIS details for sending network (IP 81.199.108.12): inetnum: 81.199.108.0 - 81.199.111.255 netname: CIDR-INTERCELLULAR-1 descr: Intercellular Nigeria Ltd country: NG admin-c: YA95-RIPE tech-c: YA95-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: AS12491-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered person: Yakubu Adamu address: 5th Floor, UBA House 57 address: Marina, Lagos address: Nigeria phone: +234 14704387 fax-no: +234 12643014 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] nic-hdl: YA95-RIPE source: RIPE # Filtered
Hi, AM DOCTOR/MR MARK COLLINS HERBALDRUGS COMPANY NIGERIA LIMITED I MAY NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR MOOD BUT I STILL BELIEF AM SENT TO YOU, I GOT TO NO ABOUT YOU AND I DECIDED TO INFORM YOU, ABOUT SOME THING NEW HAPPENING. AM A REAL HERBALDOCTOR AND A PRINCE TO SAY BECAUSE, I CAME FROM A LOYALTY HOME I GOT TO NO MUSH ABOUT HERBAL THROUGH MY GRANDFATHER WHO I ALWAYS FOLLOW TO THE FARM, HE THOUGHT ME MORE ON LEAVES THE USES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF IT,IT WAS SO FUN BEEN WITH HIM BEFORE I LOST HIM I INCLUDED ALL THE TUTORS WITH HIM COMBINED WITH SCHOOL TUTORS AND CAME OUT GREAT. COMFIRM IT FORST THEN YOU TELL THE STORY,I NO MANY PEOPLE AROUND YOU ARE INFECTED FOR THEM TO BELIEF YOU,YOU NEED TO BE FREE FORST SO WHY DONT YOU GRASP THIS CHANCE YOU DONT EVEN NO ME SO DONT GET IT TWISTED. BEFORE NOW, I USE TO BE A BRILLIANT TYPE WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL BUT DUE TO MY INTELLIGENT I BECAME WHO I AM TODAY, BY INVENTING THE SECRET OF STOPPING HIV/AIDS. IN THIS OUR GENERATION IT IS POSSIBLE SO I DID IT THROUGH THE POWER OF HERBAL,I HAVE STUDY THIS FOR YEARS BELIEF ME HAVE STAYED IN THE FOREST FOR YEARS. I SENT YOU THIS EMAIL BECAUSE I WAS TRENGTHEN ONCE BY THE WORLD HEALTH CENTER WHEN I BECAME NOTICE, SO THEY CAME FOR ME TELLING ME BULLSHIT. I JUST HAVE TO DO IT THIS WAY BY WORKING SECRETLY MAKING MONEY AND HELPING THE SOCIETY. TO INFORM YOU THEY HAVE GOTTING THE CURE, BUT THEY WANT TO MAKE MONEY BY SELLING ANTIBIOTICS DRUGS FOR HEALTH SUSTAIN, BUT TO ME I HAVE BEEN GIVING THE POWER TO OVERTAKE MY ENEMIES SO AM ALSO USING THIS SAME POWER TO HELP PEOPLE WITH THE INFECTIONS I CARE ALOT, DO SOME THING ABOUT THIS MESSAGE IF YOU NO ABOUT SOME ONE YOU CAN HELP BY INFORMING HIM/HER OK. FOR IT IS ALWAYS GOOD TO CARE AND ALWAYS TO BE IMPORTANT TO THE SOCIETY IF YOU ARE INFECTED AND YOU WANT IT SECRETLY YOU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME!! I DO MY TREATMENT BY COMING PHYSICAL WITH THE PATIENT AM ALWAYS THERE AT YOUR DOOR GIVE ME A TRY AND SEE HOW LUCKY YOU WILL IS EITHER YOU LIVE OR YOU DIE!!! NO HARM IN TRYING, AM AT YOUR SERVICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET ME ON.... +2347025886851 AND EMAIL ME ON....... [email protected] OR [email protected] HERBAL DRUGS NIGERIA LIMITED MARK COLLINS AM A FREEWINGS, I CONNECT FREELY TO THE WORLD JUST FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAN KIND..........................
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