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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 24 Mar 2012 Posts: 19

Hello,
As I am fairly new here, I have read much but have not really seen this type of scam. This is the email header I received in my spam box. It asks to call a 1-800 number or to reply by fax. It does not mention to contact through email. I assume the email has been phished? I can only backtrack the IP to France. Is it normal for scammers to use 800 #'s?
P.S. feel free to bait this if interested!

Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.224.21.35 with SMTP id h35csp34218qab;
Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:39:58 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.180.102.100 with SMTP id fn4mr8140182wib.1.1334461197200;
Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:39:57 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from relais.xlairways.fr (217-184.83-90.static-ip.oleane.fr. [90.83.184.217])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id x7si3666551wif.23.2012.04.14.20.39.55;
Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:39:57 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 90.83.184.217 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of [email protected]) client-ip=90.83.184.217;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 90.83.184.217 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of [email protected]) [email protected]
Received: from mermoz.xlairways.fr (webmail.xlairways.fr [10.90.92.20])
by relais.xlairways.fr (8.12.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id q3F3dpGA000339;
Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:39:51 +0200
Received: by mermoz.xlairways.fr (Postfix, from userid 33)
id 873BAEE3EE; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:38:30 +0200 (CEST)
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Western Union Canada Payment Notification!!!
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8;
format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:38:30 -0400
From: Western Union Canada <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Mail-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-Sender: [email protected]
User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.7
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Congratulations!!!

Your e-mail address has won the Western Union Lottery draw of
$50,000.00 in cash credited to file Wu/9420X2/68. To begin your winning
claims, please contact Western Union Canada District Manager Mrs.
Serally Wardins with your Reference Number 06-Skfd/3934.
Regards,
Mrs.Serally Wardins
Coordinator & District Manager
Information and Payment Bureau.
Canada Representative Office.
Tel: 1-800-280-7660 EXT.212
Fax: 1-289-400-1586
(c)2001-2012 Western Union(R) Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:55 am

I deleted your duplicate thread.

The email reply address is different from the sent address with an interesting spelling.

The scam has been noted here:
http://www.stopthecall.com/1-800-280-7660