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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 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.
  • +447024012542 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447024021854 (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.
  • dunkan_kotoko2001@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • bar.balloquemutaitou@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Dunkan Kotoko Dr.Dunkan Kotoko" <dunkan_kotoko2001@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: banque.raiffeisen@yahoo.se
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:26:45 +0100 (CET)
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?Congratulation=20you=20win=20=A3250,000!?=





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COCACOLA @ WORLD LOTTERY INC.




COCA-COLA COMPANY PLC, LONDON, STANFORD AVENUE.
COCA COMPENSATION DEPT COCA-COLA COMPANY PLC PROMOTION/PRIZE. SW1V 3DW LONDRES


OFFICIAL COCA-COLA PRIZE WINNING NOTIFICATION FROM COCA-COLA COMPANY PLC.

MICROSOFT U-K ONLINE LOTTERRY



WINNER OF THE EMAIL LOTTO & MICROSOFT FREE INTERNET DRAWS 2007

Dear Winner,
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of our 10TH FREE INTERNET NEW YEAR DRAWS of THE EMAIL LOTTO OF UNITED KINGDOM AS SPONSORED BY THE COCACOLA COMPANY PLC AND MICROSOFT COMPANY INC.

We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the HIGH STAKES DRAWS, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held in Hamburg-Germany on 1ST of DECEMBER 2007 and results are being officially announced today. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names/email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa , America , Asia , Australia , Europe , Middle East , and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.

You/Your company, attached to ticket number 55-9-478, with serial number 52-67 drew the winning numbers 05 17 23 26 42 48 and consequently won in our TENTH FREE INTERNET NEW YEAR DRAWS CATEGORY THREE. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of £250,000(two hundred and fifty great British Pounds), which is the winning payout for each winners. This is from the total prize money of £10 million shared among the 40 winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with our International Funds Transfer agents, which is our payment center and has been insured in your name. In your best interest and also for the reasons of avoiding mix up of numbers and names especially by impersonators of any kind, we advise that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol designed so as to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants.

To file for your claim, please contact our Coordinator:

THE COORDINATOR

DR. Dunkan Kotoko
Tel: +447024012542
Fax: +44-(0)7021860688
Email: dunkan_kotoko2001@yahoo.fr

Or do contact the our affiliate agency in Ivory Coast by either of the contacts below if you are from Africa pls:

Mr.Balloque Mutaitou
Telephone:+22505480499
Email: bar.balloquemutaitou@yahoo.com

Provide us with all your information as listed below:
1.Name: ............................
2.Address: ......................
3.Marital Status: ..................
4.Occupation: ...................
5.Age: .............................
6.Sex: ..........................
7.Nationality: .....................
8Country Of Residence: ............
9.Telephone Number: ...............
10Mobile Number: ..................
11.Fax Number: ...................
12.Email Address: ..................

That's way your Winnings Certificate and all other relevant documents/paperwork can be prepared in your favor and subsequently sent to you. You would be required to show an instrument of identification while cashing your cash prize to you e.g Your ID.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your reference and Batch Numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your correspondences with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: REF: ELMUK/7899/8604/07HFS
BATCH NUMBER: G5/B212-8

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotion program.



For more information do not hesitate to contact the director General of coca-cola company PLC Sir
boyland who based in LONDON +44 70 24 02 18 54


Goodluck from me and members of staff of the MICROSOFT U-K LOTTERY INC.



Sincerely,
MR Dunkan Kotoko
THE MANAGER,
The EMAIL LOTTO
PO Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL
N.B: *** This email may contain confidential and/or privileged information. The information is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity that operates this email address. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents is prohibited. If you are not the owner of this email and think you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the material from your computer. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please be informed that the draw was done through random computer ballot draws of Internet users all around the globe ***

Contact our coordinator via email immediately.



All rights reserved.
Terms of Service - Guideline

Dr.Dunkan Kotoko: Coordinator
COCA-COLA LOTTERY, ALL FOR HAPPY WINNINGS !








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