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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 COMPANY <mrs.yasmin90muhammad@gmail.com>
Reply-To: cocacolacompanyprizeaward118@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:15:40 +0100
Subject: GOOD DAY

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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