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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.

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:

• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +448704715560 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • @hotmail.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "THE COCA-COLA COMPANY." <coca-cola2007@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:29:21 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE COCA-COLA COMPANY.CLAIM YOUR PRIZE NOW.

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of Coca-Cola Worldwide New year Promo held in United Kingdom .

The online Coca-Cola Worldwide New year Promo draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,000 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet in all the countries where our products exists which is our social responsibility to our valued customers. 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 fifty winners in the Second category for the second prize with the following data:

Ref Number: CC/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch Number: 0703/0034
Ticket Number: 025-11464992-750

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of USD$800,000 (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) each from the total payout.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you by our affiliate Bank in United Kingdom 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:

1. FULL NAMES

2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

3. RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

4. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH

5. OCCUPATION

6. TELEPHONE NUMBERS

6. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY)

7. MARITAL STATUS

8. REFERENCE NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND TICKET NUMBER.

You are also advised to give the following information’s to the claim's agent via email as stated below;

Claims Agent's E-mail:samuel_ndlovu@hotmail.co.uk

NAME: SAMUEL NDLOVU (ESQ)

PHONE: +44- 703 1872039
FAX     : +44- 870 4715560

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 working 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.

Yours sincerely,

 

THOMAS G. MATTIA

DIRECTOR, WORLDWIDE PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

THE COCA COLA COMPANY  

 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.

 

 

"Coke" and "Coca-Cola" are registered trade marks of The Coca-Cola Company.

 © 2007 Microsoft. This program is sponsored by MSN; HOTMAIL.CO.UK

 

 

 

 

 

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