419 scam: CRYING WOMAN HELP HER <w8@gnabgg.com> From:Cancerous Ailment Woman Need Your Help

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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:
- "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "hundred thousand u.s dollars" (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)
- ",500,000" (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.
- infor55contacts@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: CRYING WOMAN HELP HER <w8@gnabgg.com>
Reply-To: inforparternship@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 14:28:50 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: From:Cancerous Ailment Woman Need Your Help

Attn: Sir/Madam/CEO

Email: infor55contacts@gmail.com

Here writes Mrs. Mary .B. Bills, suffering from cancerous ailment. I was married to Michael Bills law an English man who works with the Shell Petroleum Development Company in UK who is now dead. My husband was also into private practice all his life before his death, our life together as man and wife lasted for Twenty Two years without child. My husband died after a protracted illness. My husband and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the less-privileged individuals as he had passion for persons who cannot help themselves due to physical disability or financial predicament.

I can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from the relationship, which never came. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of (US$ 55,500,000.00) Fifty-five Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars which were derived from his vast estates and investment in capital market a Security Company in South Africa.

Presently, this money is still with a Security Company. Recently, my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the cancerous problems I am suffering from. Though what bothers me most is the Paralysis of both legs that I have in addition to the cancer. With this hard reality that has befallen my family and me. I have decided to donate this fund to you and want you to use this gift which comes from my husbandâ€™s effort to fund the upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans, destitute, the down-trodden, physically challenged children, barren-women and persons who prove to be genuinely handicapped financially.

I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want my husband hard earned money to be misused or invested into ill perceived ventures. I do not want this money to be misused hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I do not need any telephone communication in this regard due to my deteriorating health and because of the presence of my husband relatives around me.

Please I have condition, which says you are needed to come down to South Africa and be witness on how this fund is changed in your name as new confided owner, in all my attorney has 20% for all his help to my family, 10% is for all your expenses and the rest 70% is for you to invest 40% in motherless/fatherless/widow home, the balance of 30% is for you too, Sir, if you cannot come down all the coast documentation will come from you.

Please make sure that you will act just as I have stated herein,
GOD BLESS YOU
Mrs. Mary .B. Bills
Email: infor55contacts@gmail.com

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