14 DAY TRIAL // Experts have spotted a spam campaign that purports to come from an organization called the African Development Humanitarian Council. The organization doesn’t exist, which means that the emails are likely part of an advance fee scam.
The fake messages spotted by Conrad Longmore of Dynamoo’s Blog are entitled “FOOD STUFF NEEDED URGENTLY” and they read something like this:
“African Development Humanitarian Council is ready to purchase the listed bellow foodstuffs: Rice, Beans, Milk, Sugar, Vegetable Oil, Onion, Cement.
As an authorised foodstuffs agent. This is 2013 foodstuffs supply contract project from African Development Humanitarian Council. The foodstuffs is for the sustenance of refugees of war affected countries, Like Côte d'Ivoire, Somalia, Sudan, Liberia and others.”
The links from these emails point to a newly registered domain, adhcouncil.org, that appears to have been registered using fake information. Recipients are requested to reply to the [email protected] email address.
If you come across such emails, simply ignore them. Victims will most likely be tricked into sending personal information or money.