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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • alfredbuker@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <alfredbuker@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:03:29 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT INVESTMENT READ AND REPLY



VERY URGENT INVESTMENT READ AND REPLY
Good Day,
My name is Mr.Alfred Buker, the fund Manager in F & C Fund Management Ltd (OEICS) (UK) . One of the World Largest Fund Management Company with over $1.2 Trillion Capital Investment Funds. Neverthless, as Head of fix Income, I am in-charge of all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extracted 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Magellan Capital Funds.
As an expert, I have made over £92 Million (Ninety-Two Million GBP) from the Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Annual Investment Proceeds from F & C Magellan Capital Funds. Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our 6 Clearing Houses without any hitch.
Our sharing ratio shall be 50/50. Should incase you are interested, Please email me back and provide me with your direct cell phone number for discussion of this transaction full details.
Sincerely,Mr.Alfred BukerFund ManagerLondon & Channel IslandsREPLY TO MY PRIVATE MAIL:<alfredbuker@gmail.com>

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