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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:
  • "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 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.
  • johngreenlotteryclaimoffice@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • johngreenlotteryclaimdepartment@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "winning lottery" <winnbrisa_lott048@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:06:08 +0000
Subject: THE COCA COLA COMPANY PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD(YOUR EMAIL ARE THE WINNER)

THE COCA COLA COMPANY

PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPT:COCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM

                                  
 
                  THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION 

 

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws held on  (25th Decenber, 2006)  by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your email  was among the 20 Lucky winners who won 1,000,000.00{One Million Great Britain Pounds} would be released to you by  of our payment offices in AFRICA. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (FNB) each in the THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2006 PROMO. 

Your funds of 1,000,000.00 have been fully insured by this organisation and deposited with our paying bankers FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (FNB),from where the funds will be transfered.

However the results were released today  and  your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006) and ballot number (BT:12052006/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automatic 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) .

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 1st of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public. 

 

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned.To file for your claim, please contact our FIDUCIARY agent:
To begin the claim  processing of your prize you are to contact the fiduciary agent as stated below:  

 

     

CLAIM MANAGER

MR JOHN GREEN

22 Garden Close, Stamford,

Lincs,PE9 2YP,London

United Kingdom

Email:johngreenlotteryclaimoffice@yahoo.com

           johngreenlotteryclaimdepartment@yahoo.com

PHONE NUMBER :+44  703 190 8868

 Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program.

*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are not to partake in this PROMOTION.
 
Accept our hearty congratulations once again! 
 
Yours Faithfully,
Management.

              
            

    

                   Copyright ? 2006 The  Coca Cola  Company  Inc.

                      All rights reserved.Terms of Service

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