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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: Coca-Cola Company <post9@fumtc.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <cocacolaverificationdept@live.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 12:15:32 +0530
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION.

PO Box 1010, Liverpool
L70 1NL, United Kingdom,
Coca-Cola Lottery (Pty)Ltd.
Tell: +44701-0077-169
+44701-0091-358

Dear Lucky Winner,

THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of our final draw result concluded on(4th October, 2013)by Coca-Cola Company here in UK.You have won a some amount of £1,000,000.00 (one million Great British Pounds) from the COCA COLA COMPANY AWARD. However the results were released on (8th October 2013) and your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2007) and ballot number (BT: 12052013/20. The online 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.

Please you are advised to complete the form below and send it immediately to this office through email and contact below for prompt verification,collection, processing and immediate delivery of your winning amount to you in your country.

FIRST NAME................................................
LAST NAME.................................................
AGE.......................................................
SEX.......................................................
ADDRESS...................................................
EMAIL.....................................................
PHONE.....................................................
OCCUPATION................................................
COUNTRY.............. .................................
AMOUNT WON................................................
STATE ....................................................
VALID ID PROOF............................................

Dr. Steve Mark.
Foreign Service Manager
Coca-Cola Lottery (Pty) Ltd.
Tell: +44701-0077-169
+44701-0091-358
Email:cocacolaverificationdept@live.com

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