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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")
  • "claim 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.
  • agentgeorge_paymentofficer@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: cocacola award <agentgeorge_paymentofficer@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:25:24 +0200
Subject: CONGRTULATION: You have wone the COCA-COLA PRIZE AWARD!!!



[http://www2.coca-cola.com/index.html]

Coca-Cola International sets Promotion/Prize Award Structure.

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




(Bottling truck)*1970s and '80s … Consolidation to serve customers*
As technology led to a global economy, retail customers of The Coca-Cola Company merged and evolved into international mega-promotion/prize award chains. Such lucky customers required to fill in their form and return to our promotion manager through email for confirmation and promt collection of your fund from the designated bank.


Global beverages manufacturer The Coca-Cola Company has announced organisational and personnel assignments for its newly formed Coca-Cola International.
Muhtar Kent, president, Coca-Cola International, said the organisation is designed to spur growth in the rapidly developing markets of the East, South Asia and Pacific Rim Group, while providing focus on critical markets in China, Japan, Russia,America Europe and Africa. CONGRATULATION!!! LUCKY WINNER,
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 the (27th,May'2007) 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
each on the COCA'COLA COMPANY PROMOTION.YOUR PRIZE PAYMENT FALL INTO OUR AFRICAN APPROVED DELIGATED FIDUCIARY AGENT (REV GEORGE SMITH)

However the results were released on Thursday,31st may,2007 and your
email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2007) and ballot number
(BT:12052007/20The 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 representationand privacy.

The selection process was carried out through random
selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from 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 The International Association of Gaming Regulators
(IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize
the public.

In other to claim your £1,000,000.00 POUNDS prize winning!, which has been deposited in a designated bank.

However,you will have to fill the form below and send it to the
Promotion manager of THE COCACOLA COMPANY for verification and then you will be directed to your PRIZE PAYMENT FIDUCIARY AGENT and the bank where a Draft of 1,000,000.00 POUNDS has already been deposited in your favour.

NAME:..............................
AGE:...................
SEX:...................
ADDRESS: ..............
EMAIL:.................
PHONE:...............
CCUPATION:...........
COMPANY: ..............
COUNTRY:................
AMOUNT WON....................

Please you are adviced to complete the form and send it immediately to
your fiduciary Agent through email for prompt collection of your fund
from the designated bank.


(CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY CLAIM AGENT)
Name:REV GEORGE SMITH
EMAIL: (agentgeorge_paymentofficer@yahoo.co.uk) [http://uk.f270.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=agentgeorge_paymentofficer@yahoo.co.uk)]
You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public
especially your ticket number and ballot number.

(This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).
*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are
not to partake in this Lottery.

CONGRATULATION! CONTACT REV GEORGE SMITH FOR YOUR CLAIMS.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Mark Douglass
PROMOTION MANAGER.
COCA COLA COMPANY.

Completed Winner's forms must be returned to the COCA COLA COMPANY PROMOTION MANAGER/FINANCE OFFICE no later than 30th June' 2007.

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