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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.

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:

• 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:
  • "fiduciary 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.
  • overseasclaimsunit113@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "2007 COCACOLA PROMOTION" <jenni@reedtribe.org>
Reply-To: overseasclaimsunit113@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:50:49 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONGRATULATIONS=21=21=21Your=20Email=20Has=20Won=20=A3250=2C000=2E00=20In=20The=20CocaCola=202007=20Promo=20=7Bcontact=20your=20fiduciary=20agent=20immediately=7D?=


THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPT:COCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM

THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE
NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual

final draws held on (1st january, 2007) by Coca-Cola in conjunction with
the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your email was among the
20 Lucky winners who won £250,000.00{Two hundred and fifty thousand Great
Britain Pounds} each in the THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2007 PROMO.

However the results were released today and your email was attached to
ticket number (7PWYZ2007) and ballot number (BT:12052007/20) The online
draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive
list of 29,031,643 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.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized
email selection machine (TOPAZ) .

This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed
by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery
is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.
To begin the claim processing of your prize you are to contact the fiduciary
agent as stated below:

Mr Robert Lake.
22 Garden Close, Stamford,
Lincs,PE9 2YP,London
United Kingdom
Email:overseasclaimsunit113@yahoo.co.uk


Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you
keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed
and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program.

*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are not to
partake in this PROMOTION.

Accept our hearty congratulations once again!

Yours Faithfully,
Management.

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