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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: Mellisa Rose <mellisa.rose@mail.com>
Reply-To: joebrown303@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:11:31 +0900
Subject: CONGRATULATION DEAR WINNER, FROM COCA-COLA PROMOTION 2011

FROM COCA-COLA HEADQUARTER
FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGEMENT
COCA-COLA PROMOTION ANNIVERSARY COLLABORATION WITH YAHOO INC.
PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT
YOU HAVE WON £500 000 POUNDS STERLING!
YOU HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AS ONE OF THE 12 TOP LUCKY WINNERS !!!

Coca Cola Lottery gives members random cash prizes every end of the month. Today your mail is randomly selected as one of the 12 top winners mail who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterlings ( £500 000 GBP) for year of januanry 2011 lottery win promotion which is organized every begining of the year.

Coca Cola, collects all the mail addresses of the people that are online and off line on Messenger, among the millions that subscribe to Yahoo, MSN,Gmail Messenger e.t.c we only select 12 TOP people every month of december as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected to receive top cash prize for this month.All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

These are your Winning Information and Identification Numbers:
Batch Number........................ .........CCL/764X/2010
Pin no......................................CCL/631/85954/Z
Winning Numbers....................... ....CL007654
Reference Number.........................CCL34655MD

To begin your claims, You must kindly contact Coca Cola payment opertaions, Mr Joseph Brown on this email address below.

EMAIL: joebrown303@yahoo.co.uk

MR JOSEPH BROWN (Payment Operations)

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You are required to forward your winning details via the above e-mail addresses.And note that you must send your information
to the above offices for verification purposes.
1. FULL NAME........
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.....
3. PRESENT ADDRESS..........
4. AGE.................
5. OCCUPATION...........
6. SEX....................
7. TELEPHONE NUMBER........
8. MARITAL STATUS.......
9. BATCH NUMBER.........
10. WINNING NUMBER........
11. REFERENCE NUMBER......
12. A VALID ID CARD..........
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You are required to forward your bank account details for easy transfer in your personal account!!
1. ACCOUNT NAME:........
2. ACCOUNT NUMBER:......
3. BANK NAME:...........
4. BANK ADDRESS:........

Yours Sincerely,
APPROVED
MELLISA ROSE (PHD)
COCACOLA PROMO CO-ORDINATOR.



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