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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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 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.
  • cocacolapromo_claimsagent01@yahoo.co.uk
  • claimsagent_cocacolapromonline@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: COCA COLA ONLINE PROMOTIONS <cocacolapromo_claimsagent02@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:21:07 -0300
Subject: COCA COLA WINNING NOTIFICATION Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN

WINNERS ONLY:
C\ Don Jaime I n
50.003 Zaragoza
WORLD WIDE
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch: 12/25/0034
31ST JULY 2006

Dear Lucky Winner,

THE COCA-COLA MANCHESTER ONLINE PROMOTION PRIZE/AWARDS WINNING
NOTIFICATION.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of Coca-Cola Manchester Zone A3, UK Annual Promotions.

The online Coca-Cola Manchester Zone A3, UK Annual Promotion 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.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as
one
of twelve winners in the fourth category for the second prize with the
following data:

Ref Number: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch Number: 12/25/0034
Ticket Number: 025-11464992-750

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize
of
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS (£500,000) each from the total
payout.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory
obligations,
verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised
to
contact our licensed and accredited claims/fudiciary agent for SECOND
category winners with the information below: You are also advised to
give
the following informations to the claims/fiduciary agent via email

1. Full name and address:
2. Country:
3. Tel and fax number:
4.Occupation:
5. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:

YOU ARE TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS/FUDICIARY AGENT VIA THE
EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW:

Mr.Maxwell Damian,
COCA COLA PROMO CLAIMS AGENT
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release Order Dept.
Atlantico Sistemas de Informtico
Email:cocacolapromo_claimsagent01@yahoo.co.uk OR
claimsagent_cocacolapromonline@yahoo.co.uk

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After
this
date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next promotion/draws.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with
your claims agent.
You are to keep all promotion's 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 not allowed to
participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
Smith Carpenter.
COCA COLA Games/Promo's Coordinator.

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                    WE ALL SPEAK FOOTBALL

 

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