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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• 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.
  • joeadams004@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "cocacola lottery" <coca_colalott31@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:24:41 +0200
Subject: COCA COLA WINNING NOTIFICATION

COCA COLA WINNING NOTIFICATION     

 

 

                                                      CONGRATULATIONS
Dear Lucky Winner,

 

   THE COCA-COLA COMPANY SEASONAL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING
NOTIFICATION.

   We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual  final draws of Coca-Cola Johannesburg Zone A3 (South Africa) Annual Promotions.

 

   The online Coca-Cola Johannesburg Zone A3, S/A Annual Promotions
draws
was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an
exclusive
list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies
picked
by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
However,
no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different
ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

   After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of ten winners in the fourth category for the second prize with the following data

 

   Ref Number: JHB941O/020/768S/A
Batch Number: 12/25/0034775
Ticket Number: E11464992

   You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of $850.000 US dollars (EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) each from the total payout.

   Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

 

 

 

for SECOND category winners with the information below: You are also advised to give the following informations to the claim's agent via email

   To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company
.

 

   1. Full name and address:
   2. Country:
   3. Tel and fax number:
   4.Occupation:
   5.Sex
   6.Marital statue
  7 Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail and your
winning
ticket number:

   YOU ARE TO CONTACT THE CLAIMS AGENT VIA THE
   EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW:

   Mr.Jeo ADAMS
   COCA COLA PROMO CLAIMS AGENT
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release Order Dept.
TELE PHONE 27 733-40-3815
Email: joeadams004@yahoo.com

   NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 40 days from today. After
this
date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with
your
claims agent.
   You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public
especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a
case
of double claims will not be entertained).
   Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate in this program.

     Please be Warned!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear
to
be using National Lottery addresses, but are not from The National
Lottery.

 

   Thank you and congratulations once more!!!
   Yours faithfully,
Mrs Theresa  Hugo.
COCA COLA Games/Lottery Coordinator.

 

  Copyright © 1994-2006 Coca-Cola.
                       All rights reserved. Terms of Service -
Guideline

                    77635 476378 255667460

                    77635 476378 255667460

 

 

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