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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: "CCBCP" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <caymanislandmail@fastwebmail.it>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:09:25 -0500
Subject: PLEASE ACCEPT THIS COMPENSATION.

My Dear friend,
 
 
This is confidential and I must not in any way go into full details about what brought us together in the past but as you read this letter then be aware that I have died and that my young son has honoured me by sending you this letter to your email address based on your last wish which I recorded in CCBCP CODE ENVELOPE.
 
 
If you receive this letter, i want to thank you for your Kind assistance when you participated and assisted me to move and claim funds through a business proposal I sent to you some time ago via the internet. I am so sorry also that after you have endured with me and spent a lot of money to make this deal successful, I misled you in the last minute and then I used someone else to divert the funds..
I am also sorry because I decided to change the account details and I used another account to claim this money without your knowledge. I am also sorry for the difficulties and frustrations you have been facing sending money to different people to assist you get your claims without success. I am so sorry for all your financial loose, I am so sorry for bringing frustration into your life and I am so sorry for breaking your family happiness.
I believe that reversing my treatment of the man I have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness. As my last wish I have set aside the sum of $1,000,000.00 (One million US Dollars Only)in a special holding account within a bank based in Asia. I have appointed an administrator with a Chinese holding bank in Malaysia.
 
I have given him instructions as soon as  you contact him by email under CCBCP CODE,he must move this money to you as soon as to your designated bank account by wire transfer only or cash payment in person.
 
As soon as you receive this letter please contact P.W.L on his email ( paulwonglee@mail.mn ) and just tell him that you are contacting him under instruction from: CCBCP CODE Please send to him your (1) photo I.D (2) your full address and (2) phone number at once, so that he will arrange to pay you the money as quickly as possible.
My dear friend, since nothing we intend in life is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of fallibility, we are saved by forgiveness.
Forgiveness is when we no longer allow what has happened to consume us, please accept this compensation hope it is enough to give you back your happiness.
 
May I find eternal peace in my Rest!
CCBCP (rest in peace)

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