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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: <cocacola17856678@COCACOLALOTTERY2121211.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <cocacolaemail01@sify.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:38:43 +0530
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!


THE COCA COLA COMPANY PROMOTION/ AWARD PRIZE DEPT COCA COLA AVENUE STAMFORD=
BRIDGE LONDON W11 5W UNITED KINGDOM GUARANTEED AWARD WINNER, This is to in=
form you that your email was among the lucky winners that won One Million G=
reat British Pounds{=A31,000,000.00GBP} for the 2013 email Prize promotion =
which is organized by the COCA-COLA COMPANY BOARD OF DIRECTORS {CCBOD} ever=
y {2} years, Coca-Cola company, collects all the Email address of people th=
at Are active online among the millions that subscribed to EDU,AOL,VIABCP.C=
OM, GMAIL, HOTMAIL,YAHOO, etc. and few from Other email data domains, six p=
eople are selected every two years from each email domain to benefit from t=
his promotion And you are one of our selected lucky winners of this year. S=
tated below are your identification numbers: Ticket Winning Number (UK/0147=
X4/74), Reference Lucky Number 014/070/AY7, and Serial Number. 8501-07 Thes=
e numbers fall within the United Kingdom Location file and all around the w=
orld, you are requested to contact our claim agent in United Kingdom and se=
nd your winning identification numbers to the email below: cocacolaemail01@=
sify.com Claim Agent Name: MR MIKE JOHN E-mail: cocacolaemail01@sify.com Yo=
u are to send the following of your information to our Claims Agent for us =
to facilitate the release of your fund to you Immidiately.. 1. Full Name 2.=
Home Address: 3. Age: 4. Gender: 5. Occupation: 6. Wining Email: 7. Mobile=
Number: 8 Office Number: 9. Country: 10. State: 11. Marital Status: 12. Re=
ligion: 13: How Frequent Do You Purchase Our Product?: Yours faithfully MR =
FRANK HARRISON COCA COLA GAMES / EVENT, MANAGER. (cocacolaemail01@sify.com)=
=20

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