419 scam: "Mrs. Grace Solow" <mazibukomotshidisi636@gmail.com> Compliment of the day

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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- gracesolow@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Grace Solow" <mazibukomotshidisi636@gmail.com>
Reply-To: gracesolow@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:08:52 +0200
Subject: Compliment of the day

Good day,

I am Mrs. Grace Solow, from London, United Kingdom aged 68 years
suffering from endometrial cancer. Please, I want you to help me
create a charitable project with the money that I inherited from my
deceased husband who died in 2020 from Covid-19 related Pandemic.

I was brought up from a motherless baby's home and was married to my
late husband for thirty five years without a child, my friends have
plundered so much of my wealth since my illness and I cannot live with
the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them
anymore, so I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the
sum of Â£9,000,000.00 GBP (Nine Million Great Britain Pounds) with my
bank.

All I need is an honest person who will use at least %60 of the funds
as I would instruct, then the rest %40 will go to you for helping me
accomplish this mission because donating this money to charity is the
only legacy I can leave behind after my death, No money is required
from you to carry on with this project because it is my heart desire
to make a generous gift to you to work for a charity in your country.

I don't mind if you are a Christian or Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist
rather my only paramount concern here is whether I can trust you
because this generation is filled up with greedy and fraudulent people
all over the world. I will give you more details as soon as I hear
from you.

Looking forward to your urgent response to my private email:
gracesolow@yandex.com.

Kind regards.

Mrs. Grace Solow.
gracesolow@gmail.com

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