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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:

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Grace Saludares" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gracesaluda@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:16:36 +0200
Subject: Mrs. G. Saludares

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 Spain.

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. I assure you
that this transaction/deal is risk free and its success
is 100% guaranteed, I am prepared to compensate you with
a 40% share of the total fund for your assistance, 40% for
me, 10% will be mapped out to offset any expenses during
the transaction and 10% will be for orphannage home. The
final details will be given upon receipt an affirmation of
your desire to assist me. For more details please contact
me on my private email: gracesaluda@gmail.com

Best regards,
Mrs. Grace Saludares

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