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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:

• 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.
  • @yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: Postal Cocacola <postacocacola@electrotel.ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:03:01 -0700
Subject: COKE/4952HN/06 & batch number: 12/25/0304

 

COCACOLA PROMO LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON

reference number: COKE/4952HN/06
batch number: 12/25/0304

 

Date:14/11/2006

 

WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

We happily announce to you Coca cola  sweepstakes draws held on the 1st of November 2006 in London.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number : 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers:14,21,25,39,40,40,47(20), 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 KPC/9081118307/06.
This is from a total cash prize of £9,500,000.00 shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.
This  year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever in the history of Coca cola  sweepstakes. The estimated £9,500,000.00 jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in U.K. history. The biggest was the £363 million jackpot that went to two winners in a May 2000 drawing of The Big Game, Mega Millions\'predecessor.

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 our affiliate Bank in the Netherlands.

 

 Note also that this is a free lottery program which does not require the purchase of a ticket or any form of registration.

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 we are giving away these winnings of Great British Pounds this year.

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 program 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: Mr Sheikson Othman

 Email: cocacoladispatch@yahoo.co.uk

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with
us or our designated agent.Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program.

Thank you for Drinking Coca-cola .

 

Sincerely,
Catherine Hewson

Zonal coordinator

 

 

 

 

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