419 scam: "Coca Cola Company" <info@sender.com> ======C.COLA.555/2015/ES=====

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "00,000.00" (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 advise to" (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.
- cokeunit15@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Coca Cola Company" <info@sender.com>
Reply-To: cokeunit15@aim.com
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 06:59:22 -0700
Subject: ======C.COLA.555/2015/ES=====

Dear Lucky Winner,

This is to inform you that your Email Address have won you a prize of 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Euros) from our 100 Years Journey Lottery Promo which is organized by Coca Cola Company in appreciating and compensating all our esteemed customers and the general public.

Please note that no ticket was sold or any online lotto was organized in respect to this notification but we simply employ the expertise of our Microsoft experts to extract from millions of email addresses from the internet by using the synchronize database selection system and your email address was selected along with others, which automatically enters you as one of the 5 lucky winners.

Please note that this year special promo is a journey of 100 years of consistency and quality, as we celebrate our success we give back to the society and our numerous customers around the globe and for verification see our website for details...(http://www.cocacola.es).

Please on this note you are advise to kindly contact Mr.Ivan Antonio our claims/disbursement manager through this email address (cokeunit15@aim.com) and send to him your full details and this secret code (C.COLA.555/2015/ES), which you must not reveal to anyone as cases of double claims will be nullified.

1. Name:.......................
2. Address:....................
3. Country/State:..........
4. Mobile No:................
5. Occupation:..............

Please contact as a matter of urgency the claims/disbursement manager with your full details for payment processing to commence.

NOTE:THIS WINNING EMAIL ALERT AND THE SECRET CODE IS YOUR PROVE TO CLAIM YOUR CASH BENEFIT AS THERE IS NO ANY OTHER INFORMATIONS PUBLISHED IN THE INTERNET TO AVOID FRAUDSTERS FROM HIJACKING THIS GOOD-WILL VENTURE.

Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Austin Gonzales
Claims Manager.
(Foreign Claims Dept).
Web site:http://www.cocacola.es.

The information in this email is confidential and intended solely for the recipient, and is legally protected. The use of this information by anyone other than the recipient is prohibited. Disclosure, Copying, Distribution of this information to third parties is not allowed. Coca-Cola is not liable for the improper and incomplete transmission of the contents of a sent email or for any delay in its receipt. This footnote also indicates that the contents of this email have been scanned by a current virus/scam scanner for the presence of computer virus/scam.

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