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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.

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:

• 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +447024064547 (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.
  • robsonwills@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "COCA-COLA COMPANY" <cocacola@hamdard.net.pk>
Reply-To: fedex-customerserviceaffairs@live.com
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:33:57 +0500
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF WINNING FROM COCA-COLA.



Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded Online
Draws of Coca-Cola Worldwide Year-2008 Promotion held in United Kingdom
on Monday March 31 2008 at 10:45am.
The Online Coca-Cola Worldwide Year-2008 Promotion draws was conducted
by a random selection of e-mail addresses from an exclusive list of
29,031,000 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked
by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet in all
the countries where our products exists which is our social
responsibility to our valued customers. However, no tickets were sold
but all e-mail addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for
representation and privacy.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one
of fifty winners in the Second category for the second prize with the
following data:
Ref Number: CC/941OYI/02/UKBN
Batch Number: 12/26/0034UKCC
Ticket Number: 025-11464992-750
You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize
of USD$510,000 (FIVE HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
each from the total payout.
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you by our affiliate Bank in United Kingdom upon meeting
the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and
satisfactory report.
To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to
contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company for
SECOND category winners with the information below:
1. FULL NAMES
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
4. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH
5. OCCUPATION
6. TELEPHONE NUMBERS
7. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY)
8. MARITAL STATUS
9. REFERENCE NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND TICKET NUMBER.
You are also advised to give the following information’s to the claim's
agent via email as stated below;

Claims Agent's E-mail: robsonwills@yahoo.co.uk
NAME: ROBSON WILLIAMS (ESQ)
PHONE: +44-7024064547
INCOMING CALLS: (11AM-5PM,MONDAY-FRIDAY,LONDON TIME)
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 working days from today.
After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next year
stake. Remember to quote your reference informations in all
correspondence with your claims agent.
Yours sincerely,
THOMAS G. MATTIA
DIRECTOR, WORLDWIDE PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
THE COCA COLA COMPANY
FOR ANY QUERIES, CONTACT: cocacoladispatch@live.com

You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public
especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a
case of double claims will not be entertained).
Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate in this program.

"Coke" and "Coca-Cola" are registered,trade marks of the,
Cola Company. © 2008 Microsoft.
This program is sponsored by;
MSN; HOTMAIL.CO.UK & Other Multinational,Companies Worldwide.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam