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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: "EURO LOTTERY 2016" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <garrylawchambers@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:37:36 +0200
Subject: Attn winner

CONGRATULATION,  CONGRATULATIONS!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
==  == == ==  ==
Draw No: 891
Prize level: Euro Millionaire Maker
Winning numbers: MGY489185
Prize unclaimed: £1, 000, 000.00
Game name: LOTTO (Euro Millions)
Area bought: SERVICE AREA UNIT: (District Council Area of Fermanagh & Omagh)
 
Draw Date: 05/04/2016
Last Date to Claim: 02/10/2016
                                                                                                               Central payment office:
                                                                                                                                Islington, London N4 3DE. United Kingdom.
Attn winner / email User: YOUR EMAIL HAS WON A STAR PRIZE OF £1,000,000.00
 
The United Kingdom Electronic Mega Millions E-mail Lottery Group is giving you the last and final notification on your success as one of the 2016 Millionaire Raffle Electronic Email Lottery Winners.
 
 
The millionaire raffle electronic email lottery is the BRITISH INTERNATIONAL ONLINE EMAIL LOTTERY and participants/winners are selected through their email addresses all over the world, this lotto was drawn on Tuesday 5th of April 2016 here in London and you have until Sunday 2nd of October, 2016 to make your claim. This is a Life changing project that has been set up/initiated and sponsored by the BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY to encourage all internet users all over the world. One-Hundred-Thousand active email addresses were selected for this draw through online ancillary and your email address was one among the 114 email addresses that won the Mega Millions Lottery Award Pa
 
Your email address was selected as category P7/1 with Winning Number: MGY489185 which made you a winner of [One Million British Pounds] £1,000,000.00. All lottery prizes are to be claimed by winners within 180 days [Six Months] from date of draw, after which time claim can no longer be made. If you fail to apply for your claim before Thursday 2nd October 2016 then the prize money, plus all the interest the prize has generated will go to The National Lottery Good Causes fund. You are one of the 15 Winners that have not claimed their prizes while the other 99 Winners have successfully completed their claims. We advise you to apply for your claim immediately.
 
We sent you a notification email on the same date of draw 5th of April, 2016 informing you of this Good News but we have not received any response from you until this date. We are sending you this email today again as a reminder and a final notification to apply and claim your lottery fund immediately or your payment will be cancelled and your winning confirmation details will be deleted on our payroll Website as shown in the lick below.
 
Due to your failure in responding to our email as sent to you on the 5th of April 2016, your lottery prize money has now been posted on our unclaimed winning funds site list by the lottery authority. To view the list of winning prizes those remaining unclaimed by winners, also to confirm your winning prize number [MGY489185] for cash claim of £1,000,000.00 on our list. Kindly visit our website: https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/results/unclaimed-prizes 
 
 
 
To apply for payment, contact Barrister Garry Trevor on +44 7700 308 944
       
Contact our Lawyer to file for your payment:
 
Barrister Garry Trevor Esq.
E-mail: garrylawchambers@gmail.com  / eurointernational@europe.com
Tel: +44 7700 308 944
Fax: +44 77814 7 0659
 
Do make sure to email us the following details;
Your first & last names…
Your mobile number……
Your address……………
Your winning number….
Your Age………………..
Sex & Occupation……...
 
 
 
Email your details to eurointernational@europe.com and Barrister Garry Trevor shall contact you back again within 24hrs with copy of your lottery Ticket as a proof of your award winning PRIZE. Note that any e-mail lottery winning without a lottery winning Ticket cannot be trusted as there are many internet scams; this is why we always make available winning Ticket copies to all our winners as their proof of winning and also as a payment guarantee. Contact Barrister Garry Trevor immediately and he will  
 
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                                   UK - ElectronicE-mailLottery: ©2016.
                                          Signed by: Management.
                                                                          Terms & Conditions strictly apply.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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