419 scam: "JAMES WANG"<cocacolax107@yahoo.com> From THE COCA-COLA COMPANY PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT!!!!!!

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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:

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.
The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "transglobe finance" (no such agent exists)
- "transglobe finance securities" (no such agent exists)
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
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.
- agent_xiaoyan1979@163.com (163; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "JAMES WANG" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <agent_xiaoyan1979@163.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 01:48:17 +0800
Subject: From THE COCA-COLA COMPANY PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT!!!!!!

THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Head Office. Coca-Cola (Peoples Republic Of China) Ltd.
Adress: 21B Roverhills Lane,
Oppt HSBC Bank, Floor 1108
Beijing, China.

The management of Coca Cola Company People Republic Of China wishes to inform you that your e-mail address emerged as one of their online lucky Winners selected from their private computerized lottery drawn here in CHINA.

This selection process was carried out through a random selection in our Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of over a millions email addresses in more than 200 countries from the World Wide Web. Hence we do believe that with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Coca-Cola international. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 883734657492-5319 with serial number 7263-267, batch number 8254297137, and lottery ref number 7336065782 and drew lucky numbers 14-22-28-37-40-44 consequently won you the cash prize in the 1st category. Therefore you have won the sum of ($2.000, 000) Two Million united State Dollars (62.0304 THB), A blackberry Phone and Apple Laptop, A winning draft will be issued in your name by Coca- Cola Corporation and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent to you along side with your Winnings cheque. You are advice to contact your designated agent, who shall by duty, guide you through.

To claim your winning prize kindly contacts our office with below details ASAP:
==============================================================
Mrs. Xiao Yan
(Transglobe Finance Securities)
Email: agent_xiaoyan1979@163.com
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VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM. (ASAP)
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1. Full name:...........................
2. Address .............................
3. Telephone...........................
4. Fax.....................................
5. Occupation..........................
6. Age:....................................
7. Sex.....................................
8. Nationality...........................
9. Country of residence.............
10.Email Address.....................

Once again we the management of Coca Cola company (People Republic Of China) wish to say Congratulation to your winnings!!!.

Sincerely,
Dr. James Wang (Funds Transfer Manager).
Coca-Cola Promotion Award Team.
Peoples Republic Of China.

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