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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.
• 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.
  • kattmoore00@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Coca Cola Plc" <cocacola60@terra.com.mx>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 04:34:46 -0600
Subject: Coca-Cola Sweepstakes.




Ref No.: COKE/4952HN/06
Batch No.: 12/25/0304

WINNING NOTIFICATION


We happily announce to you the draw of the Coca-Cola Sweepstakes held in the month of May 2006 in The UK. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: COKE-033 6123 234 with Serial number: 005404 drew the lucky numbers: 31 06 26 13 35 07 11, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of £950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and fifty Thousand Great British Pounds) in cash credited to file COKE/F/75543340/04. This is from a total cash prize of £9,500,000.00, shared amongst the lucky winners in this category.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your £950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and fifty Thousand Great British Pounds) would be released to you by The Payment Centre in London. Note also that this is a free lottery program which does not require the purchase of a ticket or any form of registration. Your involvement in this programme is unconditional, hence you could reject your prize claim

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies and individual email addresses.This promotion is new and it is in appreciation to the world for patronizing us all these years.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned. To file for your claim, please contact our Head of Claims Department with the below details for processing of your claims.


Coca Cola Sweepstakes Claims Department
Contact person: Katt Moore
Email: kattmoore00@yahoo.co.uk


To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in all correspondences with us or our designated agent. Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this programme and thank you for drinking Coca-Cola .


Sincerely,
Linda Johnson
Zonal coordinator


NB.
1) You have recieved this email Because your email address was included in our Lottery database.if you are not interested in claiming your winning, please send us a blank email with the subject "Disclaimer"

2) Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winner(s) will result to disqualification.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam