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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: "Coca-Cola UK®" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dr.lorrisw@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:31:07 +0530
Subject: Congratulations From Your Favourite Drink!!!

P.O Box 1010,Liverpool
L70 1NL,United Kingdom,

Date: 29-10-2012

Ticket number (2PYUK2012)
Ballot number (UK: 51322010/110)

The Coca Cola Company Plc Official 2012 Lucky Draw Winner Notification.

LUCKY DRAW FROM YOUR FAVORITE DRINK

Dear Guaranteed Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on the 27th October, 2012 by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion, your email was among the 12 Lucky winners who won (?750, 000, 00GBP) each on the COCA COLA COMPANY PROMOTION.

However the results were released on the (29th of October, 2012) and your email was attached to ticket number (2PYUK2012) and ballot number (UK: 51322010/110), The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from data base of the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. This Lottery is approved by the British Gambling Board and also Licensed by the International Association of Gambling Regulators (IAGR).This is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

In ORDER to claim your winning prizes, You are required to send the winning datails below to the Claims manager of THE COCA-COLA COMPANY for verification and then you will be directed on how to receive you wining amount of Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds (?750, 000, 00GBP) within 2 working days.


WINNING DETAILS:

Ticket number (2PYUK2012)
Ballot number (UK: 51322010/110)
Name:............................
Phone Nunber:....................
Country:.........................

Complete the above and Send it to the claims manager for verification and payment, you can contact your claims manager with the details below for prompt collection of your winning fund.

CLAIMS MANAGER:

Name Dr. LORRIS WISDOM
Emails: dr.lorriswisdom@yahoo.com
Tel: (+44) 871-974-7975


Sir. Muhtar Kent
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
The Coca-Cola Company Plc United Kingdom.

Accept my hearty congratulations once again!
Yours faithfully, Mr. Muhtar Kent.

Note:
1.)we shall pay your claims through diplomatic Courier System of Delivery within 2 days, please contact your claims agent urgently by phone or email for confirmation.
2.)Please quote your winning ballot number and ticket number to your claims agent and remember to keep your winning secret to yourself for security reason.
3.)And also note that all funds not claim within 7days of this notification shall be return to the European trasury as UNCLAIM.

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