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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: Demi Queta <demi.queta3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <demi.queta@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:57:56 +0000
Subject: Confidential.




I am Demi Queta 18 years old the son of Late Dr Micheal Queta of the Republic Of Sierra Leone; Meanwhile i and my younger Brother are in refugee camp here in Ghana. After much atrocities, human right abuses and overthrow of the government of Major General Alhassan Razik years ago. My father served the government as a presidential adviser on finance and mineral resources. During his tenure in office he had various sum of cash and diamonds and gold deposited in various secretvaults overseas. Due to the present government of Captain Paul Thomas and the ECOWAS EMBARGO on former ministers of majorMorris Kallon AFRC he could not travel out beyond west Africa . Fortunately for him , he managed to get access to one of the vaults, The vaults contains $15.5m USD and the rough diamonds and gold worthabout six million USD"marked" this was intentionally done by him for security reasons before he was killedby his enemy, SUBJECT MATTER, I want you to stand as my foreign partner to help me claim from the security company . But my Late father registered me as the next of kin. But the money wont be release to me because my father told them without a foreign partner this fund shouldn't be release for any reason, cos am too young to handle this fund, and he wants me to invest it abroad, That is why i have contacted you. So i want you to contact the company now and tell them you are the foreign partner who is willing to help me claim this fund. After the claim of the vaults you will help me to travel to your country where we will invest the sum and arrange the sales of the diamondsand gold .You are free to ask any questions with regard to this transaction.NB: Hope you are going to be honest with me and my brother ? like i told you am just 18 years and still young and i want you to treat me like you own sonBest Regards.Demi Queta.
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