419 scam: COCA-COLA COMPANY <daivid.koffi@gmail.com> Dear lucky winner

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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:
- "hundred thousand united states 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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "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)
- "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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.
- cocacolacompanyprizeaward118@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: COCA-COLA COMPANY <daivid.koffi@gmail.com>
Reply-To: cocacolacompanyprizeaward118@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 22:02:45 +0100
Subject: Dear lucky winner

We are very happy to inform you that you are one of the Coca-Cola
company lottery promo award lucky winners that your email address won
the sum of ($500,000.00 dollars) Five hundred thousand United states
dollars from our company.

The lottery draw which took place in the capital city of lome Togo,
Your email address was selected from a batch of over 100,000,000
Million International email addresses from all over the world, of
which your email address is one of the lucky raffle draw winners.

Here is your Winning number: EL-178-67.

Winners were picked randomly selected from our computerized email
selection system (ESS) powered by Coca-Cola company, your winning
cash prize of ($500,000.00 dollars) has been credited into an Atm
visa card already for our winners, Your Atm visa card valued at $500
,000.00 dollars will be delivered to your home address through DHL
shipping company.

You are advise to contact our lottery office email address below
with your Winning numbers to enable them Process the shipping of
your Atm visa card to your home address, which you will be
withdrawing a total of $5000 dollars everyday from your Atm visa card
in any ATM visa card machine center of your choice in all over the
world.

E-mail: cocacolacompanyprizeaward118@gmail.com
Contact person Mr. Daniel Patrick
Contact telephone: (+228 98859151)

Note: it is your responsibility to pay for the DHL shipping charges
of $85 dollars Coca-Cola company lottery is 100% real and legitimate
however you have the 100% right to decline your winning prize if
you are not interested, keep this private and confidential until you
receive your prize money..

Best regard

Mr. John Mark, Coca-Cola company
Assistant lottery coordinator.

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