419 scam: "Mrs. Grace Saludares"<gsaludar1@yahoo.es> Saludar

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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:
- "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
This email message is a next of kin 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.
- gracesaluda@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Grace Saludares" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gracesaluda@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 23:03:44 +0200
Subject: Saludar

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am glad to take the chance to introduce my self to you.
I am Mrs. Grace Saludares, the Administrative Manager
at financial and security vault of Institute here in Madrid.

I am contacting you based on a financial opportunity I
discovered here in our Bank. It's about an abandoned
sum of $9.3M United States Dollars only, that belongs
to one of our foreign investor, a citizen of your country
that shares the same surname with you who died along with
his wife and two children aged 12 and 15 by car accident
in a town on the Belgian border with France on December
20th 2009, a German tourist bus smashed into a concrete
highway barrier and burst into flames in Hensies killing
11 and injured 37 others. Since then I have made several
inquiries to your embassy here to locate any of my clients
extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.

I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the funds
valued at $9.3M United States Dollars left behind by my
deceased client to you before it gets confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the Spanish Government due to
the Economics crisis here in the country. For more details
contact me on my private email: gracesaluda@gmail.com,
for security and confidential reasons. Have a happy day
and thank you while I look forward to hear from you soon.

Best regards,
Mrs. Grace Saludares

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