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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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:

Fraud email example:

From: WED INFO <web.info5@web.de>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 02:23:56 +0200
Subject: COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION WINNER




COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION
Ref: PBL/CN/6654/CP.
Coupon No.PBL2348974321

We are pl eased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annual final draws held on the 10h Of March 2007 by Coca-Cola
company in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide
Promotion. Your email was among the 4 Lucky winners who won a lump sum of FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLINGS (£500,000.000 ) each on THE
COCA COLA COMPANY PROMOTIONS.However the results were released on the
14th of May 2007 and your email was attached to ticket number (CC/7PWYZ2006)
and ballot number (CC/BT:12052006/20) The online 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 e
mail selection machine (TOPAZ) fro m a database of over 250,000 email
addresses drawn from all the continents of the world This Lottery is approved by the British
Gaming Board and also Licensed by the International Association of
Gaming Regulators (IAGR).
In other to claim your prize winning, contact the Fiduciary Agent Of
THE COCA COLA COMPANY for verification and claim processing below.

Lottery Claims Officer:
MR. EDWARD OWENS,
TRUST CONSULTANTS SECURITY COMPANY U.K
PHONE: +44-7031845080 (Direct line)
Call b/w 8.00am to 20.00pm MONDAY TILL SARTURDAYS
E-mail:trust_consultant07@yahoo.com

Congratulations once again On Behalf of the staff And Members Of the
COCA COLA COMPANIES and therefore advised you to keep your winning
information confidential and restrict from third Party to avoid double
or false claims of your winning.

jeffrey rice
(Lottery Coordinator)






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