Campaigns blasted out with mass-mail software to scraped address lists, often betrayed by unfilled merge fields and template errors.
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I am MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. A Chinese-language donation fraud promising USD 100,800,000 through a foundation that does not exist, sent from a German online shop's info mailbox under a subject line that is only Re:.
We couldn't renew your Cloud storage subscription because your payment method needs to be updated. A storage-full warning whose body is actually about a failed payment, sent from a domain on a top-level domain that does not exist, linking to a page parked inside a Google Cloud Storage bucket.
A firm in Germany needs a supplier of extracted materials from India for production in there plant. The same sender, the same dummy recipient, nineteen hours later, with every phrase swapped for a synonym.
Our firm in Germany needs a supplier of extracts materials from India, reply for details. Fifteen words, no company name, no signature, sent from a free Polish mailbox to somebody else's address.
Warning: do not use this project as a template for your mailing campaign! A fraudster sent us the built-in demo file of a commercial mass-mail program instead of the scam, exposing the machinery behind the campaign.
