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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "COCA-COLA WINNING TEAMS AWARDS" <contactsilverbrookbank@walla.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:06:42 -0700
Subject: YOUR EMAIL HAS WON THE COCA-COLA COMPANY SEASONAL PROMOTION


WINNERS
ONLY:
C4c\ Don Parker I nº91 2-6º
90.004
WORLD WIDE E-Tickets No: 7804468845
Batch No: 0252393053
Dear Lucky Winner,
THE COCA-COLA COMPANY SEASONAL 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 Promo.
The online Coca-Cola Manchester Zone A3, UK Annual Promo
draws was conducted by a random selection of e-mail
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 issued for sale, all email addresses were
assigned 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:
E-Ticket No: 7804468845. Batch No: 0252393053
You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a
cash prize of £250,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty thousand
Great British Pounds) each.
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.
Due to mix up of some emails, numbers and names, we ask that
you keep your winning information confidential till your
claim has been processed and your winning remitted to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this Lottery program.
You are required upon receipt of this email notification to
contact the interim account officer for the remittance of
your winnings to your nominated local / existing account or,
modalities if you want to maintain an account with the
Institution:
Bank Name: Silver Brook Bank.
Officer Name: Cole Brown
Email: contactsilverbrookbank@walla.com
Telephone: 009 44 701 113 0065
Fax Number: 009 44 870 068 4569
To enable interim account officer file your claims with the
gaming board and to obtain the necessary approval and
endorsement for payment, you are to immediately furnish your
interim account officer with the following information
below:
1. Full Names...............................................
2. Sex...............................................
3. Date of
Birth...............................................
4. Contact Phone and Fax
Numbers...............................................
5. Residential
Address...............................................
6. Bank Address/Bank
Name...............................................
7. Occupation...............................................
8.
Nationality...............................................
9. Next of
Kin...............................................
10. Country of
residence...............................................
Your interim account officer shall verify your information
and further instructions shall be sent to you prior the
release of your award prize.
Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do
inform your interim account officer as soon as possible.
Endeavour to furnish your claims officer with the
information listed above and also make sure that you give
constant attention to your email messages so a steady
correspondence could be made.
*NOTE*: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please remember to quote your reference and
batch numbers in all correspondences with this office.
Congratulations once again and thanks for being part of THE
COCA-COLA COMPANY SEASONAL PROMOTION.
Yours faithfully,
Michele Baker.
Coca-Cola Games/Lottery Coordinator.

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