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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary 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.
  • +447040109074 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • harrison_agent@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION " <cocacolabonaza@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:17:26 +0500
Subject: YOU HAVE WON CLAIM YOUR WINNING






THE COCA COLA NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPTCOCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM

COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws held on (2nd August, 2006) by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the
British American Tobacco Worldwide email addresses balloting Promotional
Bonaza, your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £700,000.00.
each on the THE COCA COLA AWARD WINNING PROMOTION.

However the results were released on the 15th August, 2006 and your email
was attached to ticket number (56475600545188) and Serial Numbers (5368/02)
which won you the above total prize.

This award winning promotional 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
1,000,000 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.

In other to claim your £700,000,00. prize winning, which has been
deposited on your behalf in a designated bank you will have to fill in the
form below and send it to our Promotion manager through email or fax for
prompt collection of your fund from the designated bank..

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM:

1. FULL NAMES:
2. ADDRESS:
3. SEX:
4. AGE:
5. MARITAL STATUS:
6. OCCUPATION:
7. E-MAIL ADDRESS:
8. TELEPHONE NUMBER:
9. TICKET NUMBER:
10. SERIAL NUMBER:
11. AMOUNT WON:
12. STATE:
13. COUNTRY:
14. NEXT OF KIN:


(CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER)

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent: Overseas Claims
Unit United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
Mr. Steve Harrison
Email:Harrison_agent@yahoo.com
Tel:+44 704 010 90 74

You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public
especially your ticket number and ballot number. (This is important to avoid
double claiming).

Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Management

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