419 scam: Anna Gray <hostmaster@casanet.net.ma> I HAVE CANCER

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a "dying widow" scam.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- anagrray@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Anna Gray <hostmaster@casanet.net.ma>
Reply-To: <anagrray@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 13:18:04 -0400
Subject: I HAVE CANCER

My Name is Anna Gray am a widow to Late Mr Bryan Hubert Gray who died of brain cancer some years back in Syria when he went for a contract job and am just 72 years old with no child suffering from long time cancer of the breast and at all indications my condition is really deteriorating and is quite obvious that I may not live more than 2 months according to my doctor because the stage at which my cancer is (Level 4) due to the critical ability and also to a very severe stage.

My late husband and I both grew up in a motherless home in Switzerland we got married over 28 years and we travel to Spain for our wedding and decided to stay back here simply because it is a lovely country to be and we were given a permanent stay after so many years of living in the country but we had no child of our own due to one problem and the other and since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against but despite that i love him so much because he was caring, loving and hardworking.

Now i decided to give out all the wealth of i and my late husband by contributing to the development of the motherless baby homes, less privileges, raising the church, poor, charity homes, widows and cancer patients in your country also I just want you to forget about the distance between me and you because life is not by distance but by the faith and grace upon ones head. I am willing to donate the sum of {1,000,000.00 British Pounds} which is still the major inheritance i and my late husband left, i wish you could be someone who I could trust with all my heart even at my pains and stage of given up due to my illness to make this wish of mine come true despite my prayers.

I really need you to use this funds to help the poor which is very essential and also the widow and cancer patient just has the condition which am going through and i know this may sound strange but you should keep saying this proverb in your mind, soul and heart that i am like Moses in the Bible who came to the Red Sea and Pharaoh behind him and no way to turn but he was delivered by a miraculous deliverance so it will be a miracle from above to be able to help all the people he has laid on our hearts as you have been laid on my heart to do his will.

This is why in my heart i contacted you and i want you to get back to me so we can always be in constant communications with all the poor souls out there. I have come to find out that wealth acquisition without been born again is vanity and i hope you will agree with this also. I will be praying hard that Satan will not stop this effort. Please do contact me and I will tell you more of what you wish to know in regards of the funds. Note that they is a great reason for me contacting you and i will be very grateful if you will heed to the call and pay attention to my words. I patiently await to hear a Good responds from you so i can enclose more visions to you.

God Bless you.

Mrs Anna
anagrray@gmail.com

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