419 scam: "Coca-Cola Company"<reward@coca-cola.com> Coca-Cola Winning Notification!

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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.
- georgwill36@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Coca-Cola Company" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <georgwill36@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 04:57:26 -0800
Subject: Coca-Cola Winning Notification!

Coca-Cola Company Prize Redemption Center,

2011 Coca-Cola Promotions Rewards,

Redemption Center Avenue,

Atlanta, GA 30330,

United States.

Web: www.mycokerewards.com

BATCH NUMBER: JAN/UM/2011/YY

Consequently, you have been selected and approved a winner of Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand United states Dollars (750,000.00 USD) through an Electronic Random Selection of World Wide E-mail Addresses from the Internet. We are pleased to announce your email address as one of the 10 lucky winners of the coca-Cola Company Promotions Department Free Lottery draw, in conjunction with FRASER & NEAVE HOLDINGS COCA-COLA COMPANY USA. CCCPD collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Rediffmail, Aol, Walla, Gmail, American Mail, Russian Mail, Indian Mail, Arabic Mail, Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Ten people are selected yearly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners of 2011.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Please be informed that all Coke award must be claimed before the given date. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications or the fund will be donated to charity as a case may be.

Reference Number: CCCPD-24052011

Your Winning number is (BAS001/705/BS09)

Batch number is (BN: 2009/01037/AUZ-UK)

For security reasons, we advised that you keep your winning information confidential until you claim your prize money. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!

Please be warned!!!!

To file for your claim, and kindly Contact our corresponding Agent immediately you read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund, contact information is as follow: -

LOTTERY AGENT: Dr. George Williams.

OFFICE ADDRESS: Redemption Center Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30330, United States.

E-MAIL ADDRESS: georgwill36@yahoo.com
TEL: +1-912-434-7152

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program that has successfully won this competition. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

YOUR WINNING PAYMENT APPLICATION FORM [A]:

1. Full Name:-------------------------

2. Address:----------------------

3. Country:----------------------

4. Mobile Phone No:--------------

5. Home Phone No:-------

6. Occupation:-------------

7. Sex:---------------------

8. Age: --------------------

9. Marital Status:-----------

10. Post code: ----------

Ludwig A. Anderson

[Promotion manager].

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