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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.
• 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.
  • richard.claimsdepth@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: COA COLA PROMOTIONS <info_cocacola@awardpromotins.co.uk>
Reply-To: richard.claimsdepth@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 1 Oct 2007 06:56:59 +0200
Subject: PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION!!!

Content-Type: text/plain
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Coca cola &reg; /International&reg; Award Promotion
Bradford City Centre Branch
2 Defort, Central London
COCACOLA OFFICE, UNITED KINGDOM
Date: 1st/10/2007

THIS MESSAGE IS FROM THE
PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS AND
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT

COA COLA PROMOTIONS
YOU HAVE WON ON THE COMPUTER BALLOT,
THE SUM OF &pound;800,000.00

PLEASE CONTACT
(MR. RICHARD WALTER)
EMAIL: richard.claimsdepth@yahoo.co.uk

YOUR CLAIMS ADMINISTRATOR FOR YOUR IMMEDIATE PAYMENT

PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION!!!

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement made today 29th September 2007, of winners of the Coca cola &reg; /International&reg; Award Promotion UK, as part of our promotional draws. HELD ON 23RD OF MARCH 2007.

Participants were selected through a Computer Ballot System Drawn from 2,600,000.00 Email Addresses of Individuals and Companies from all part of the world as part of our Electronic Business Promotions Program.

Note that your email address qualified for the draw, as a result of your visiting various websites as we are running the E-Business Promotions in every month. You/Your Company Email Address, attached to Ticket Number 2-23-29-32-37-50, with Serial Number 8880/07 drew the Lucky Numbers 5-43-33-38-25 PGOP 71 and Bonus number 5 and consequently YOU HAVE won in the Second Category.

REFERENCE NUMBER:ZAR/PGOP-7771532/ZA2007
BATCH NUMBER:ZAR/332831323/N222-33

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of &pound;800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds). in cash credited to file PGOP/2040211245/2007. This is from a total cash prize of US&pound;15,100,000.00 (Fifteen Million One Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds Only),
shared amongst the first One Hundred and Thirty (130) Lucky Winners in Second category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

To begin your claim, urgently contact your Claims Administrator through the below Information:

MR.RICHARD WALTER
COCA COAL AWARD PROMOTIONS
E-MAIL: richard.claimsdepth@yahoo.co.uk

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your Reference and Batch Numbers and other information provided above and below in every one of your correspondences with your Claims Administrator. Coca cola &reg; /International&reg; Award Promotion.

Do email the above Claims Administrator, at once with all the claims requirements below. To avoid unnecessary delay. They are needed to proceed.
Claims Requirements:

1. Full Name: ...................................

2. Address: .....................................

3. Nationality: .................................

4. Age: .......... Date of Birth: ...............

5. Occupation: ..................................

6. Phone: ................Fax: ..................

7. State of Origin: ...........Country: .........

PROCEEDURES / RIGHTS AND PRECAUTIONS.
Contact the Claims Administrator with all your claims requirements well filled.

Congratulations'' once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our Promotions Program.

Yours Truly,
Mrs.Rita T.Maxwell
Promotions Manager
Coca cola &reg; /International&reg; Award Promotion

(THIS PROGRAM IS SPONSORED BY THE BANK OF ENGLAND.)

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