419 scam: "Andre Wins"<coke_unit12@foxmail.com> WINNER COCACOLA

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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:

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.
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.
- cocacolapromowins@aim.com (AOL Instant Messenger; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Andre Wins" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cocacolapromowins@aim.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 09:40:13 +0100
Subject: WINNER COCACOLA

Dear Winner,
Is our pleasure to bring to your notice that your email address has won you the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Euros in this year Summer Music Festival Promo in conjunction with coca-cola, that was held in Rome, Italy.
Kindly verify and confirm by visiting our website.(http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Summer_Festival).Please note that all email addresses were randomly selected from an Internet Resource Database using the Synchronized Selection System (SSS) and yours was selected among the lucky winning email addresses.

We will verify and be satisfied that you are the real owner of this Winning Email Address.Then and when your fund will be paid out to you from our regional office here in Spain, so in line with the governing rules of claims, you are expected to contact the claim manager via email with this below details.Please quote your V.Code Numbers (COKE-169382-2016-IT), Please avoid disclosing this information to the general public to avoid cases of double claims which will be revoked.

This listed below information is requested from you to Andre Wins, the claims manager via this email address.
(cocacolapromowins@aim.com.)

1.Name/Surname......
2.Address................
3.Country/State.......
4.Phone No/Code.....

NOTES: FORWARD YOUR COMPLETE DETAILS TO US FOR EASY PAYMENT PROCESS.

Sincerely Yours,
Mr.Andre Wins
Claims Manager
(Foreign Claims Dept).

The information in this email is confidential and intended solely for the recipient, and is legally protected.
The use of this information by anyone other than the recipient is prohibited. Disclosure, Copying, Distribution of this information to third parties is not allowed.
Coca-cola is not liable for the improper and incomplete transmission of the contents of a sent email or for any delay in its receipt.
This footnote also indicates that the contents of this email have been scanned by a current virus/scam scanner for the presence of computer virus/scam, indicates that it is SPAM FREE.

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