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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 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.
  • homeland_206@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr
Reply-To: homeland_206@yahoo.es
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:20:16 +0100
Subject: COCACOLA LOTTERY AWARD NOTIFICATION FOR THE YEAR 207(Contact Your Claims Agent


COCACOLA COKE
WINNERS ONLY:
C\ Don Jaime I nº11 2º
50.003
WORLD WIDE
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch: 12/25/0034
JAN: 9th 2007
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 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 £750,750,00 (SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND
FIFTY BRITISH POUNDS) 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 agent/security company
for SECOND category winners with the information below: You are also
advised to give the following informations to the claim's 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:
Mr.Williams Johnson
COCA COLA PROMO CLAIMS AGENT
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release Order Dept.( MADRID
SPAIN)
TEL: 0034 696 740 126 FAX:0034 658 535 179 Email: homeland_206@yahoo.es
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 30 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 not allowed to
participate in this program.
Thank you and congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
John Reids.
COCA COLA Games/Lottery Coordinator.
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