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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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348027709640 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • rich_smith007@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "cocacolalotto007" <cocacolalotto007@terra.com.mx>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:42:24 -0600
Subject: OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION{You Have Won Our Lottery}......



Reply-To:E-mail: Rich_smith007@myway.com
Sender: Undercurrent Discussion List
From: COCACOLA WORLDWIDE PROMO
Subject: OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

WORLD WIDE

Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch: 12/25/0034
2006

TRACK : Nº: 51024060210

OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promo.

This is to inform you that have been selected for a cash prize of £249,999.00(Two Hundred and Fourty Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred and Ninty Nine Great British Pounds) , International programs held in the London Uk.

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.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.
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 processing of your prize you are to contact your claims officer through our accredited Prize Transfer agents as stated below:
Mr. Francis Tideswell,

COCACOLA HOUSE
IKEJA,LAGOS ,NIGERIA,
+23401



Alternate E-mail: Rich_smith007@myway.com

Phone Number: +2348027709640
Time to call(10am to 5pm NIGERIA TIME)

Kindly provide your Secret pin code (x7pwyz2006), Amount won (£249,999.00) and your Reference number (BT:12052005/21).

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 14 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 notallowed to participate in this program.

*Winner under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.
*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are not to partake in this Lottery.
Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Richard smith
Online coordinator for COCA-COLA LOTTERY PROMO

Phone : +234 - 8027 - 7096 - 40

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