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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447031870075 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • pacificsec99@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Steve Brooks <cclclaims@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:24:11 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Please contact your payment agent now.


COCA COLA GAMES PROMO.
LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS.
Cheetham Hill Road
Cheetham Hill
Manchester
M8 8LW UK.
Tel:+44-703-1870075

FROM: THE PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT COCA COLA GAMES PROMO.

Dear Ms. Brune,

Congratulations Category A prize winner! As one of the selected twelve winners of the CocaCola Lotto computer ballot draws you are now a privileged recipient of the grand draw prize of E 7,500,000 (Seven million five hundred thousand Euros only). Winning File Reference number for your prize is RWK/132/756/4007; ticket number 27511465901-6411.

We in the CocaCola Lotto UK is by this program, launching our model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of the ever growing number of participants in our various lottery programs. With funds accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to all Winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in record time.

After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database of 300,000 emails and zoning all participants by their respective continents from across the globe, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the Grand Draw prize.
To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings, the transfer of your prize is to be handled by our Prize Transfer agents. You are to contact our agents by email after receiving this notice. Please find full contact details below:

Mr. Richard Coker
Finance Director
Pacific Alliance Security & Finance.
16, Glover Road, Brixton London UK
Tel:+44-703-187-0075
email: pacificsec99@hotmail.com

Also find all other relevant winning lottery information below:

Draw Serial No: 7772-511
Batch No: 538901527-BB67
Zonal Draw No: A2-003
Grand Draw No: 12077

You are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery information and numbers from the public in line with our company security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous individuals.

Please direct all further correspondences and queries to your respective category Prize Transfer handlers. Congratulations once again from the CocaCola Lotto family.

Sincerely,

Mr. Steve Brooks.
Claims Agent.


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