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The email message below is a fake and scam. The email message was not sent by Coca-Cola. You should not respond to the message with your personal information. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and/or sending money. Therefore, never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted you via email message.
From: Coca-Cola Lottery (postmaster @comp3.co.il)Sent: Sun 8/24/14 11:13 AMBe careful! This sender failed our fraud detection checks.Dear Lucky Winner,We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Coca-Cola Online season Winners International programs held on the 16th August,2014. Your E-mail address attached to ticket #:538-6064-31, with prize #:52-418-042, drew $1,500,000.00 which was in the 2nd category of the draws. You are to receive $1,500,000.00 (One Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).This program is in conjunction with Australian, British and European Governments and the Coca-Cola bottling company International.Because of mix up in cash pay-outs, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your winning prize ($1,500,000.00) is fully remitted to you by our accredited pay-point bank. You are advised to adhere to this instruction so as to forestall the abuse of this program by other participants.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR CASH PRIZE TO YOU, CONTACT OUR PAYING BANK ADDRESS WRITTEN BELOW.Send them the following informations:(i) Your name:(ii) Contact telephone:(iii) Contact Address:(iv) Your ticket and prize numbers:(v) Quote amount won:(vi) Notification date:PAYING BANK CONTACT.Contact Person: Mr. David ChapmanEmail: chapmandavid35 @gmail.comCongratulation once again from the Coca Cola Online Award Department.Note: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR PAYING BANK DIRECTLY FOR YOUR CLAIMS. YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO PAY A FEE TO CLAIM YOUR WINNINGS, IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY.Yours in service,Dr. Chris Martin.Coca-cola Lottery Co-ordinator.
From: Coca-Cola Lottery (postmaster @comp3.co.il)Sent: Sun 8/24/14 11:13 AM
Be careful! This sender failed our fraud detection checks.
Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Coca-Cola Online season Winners International programs held on the 16th August,2014. Your E-mail address attached to ticket #:538-6064-31, with prize #:52-418-042, drew $1,500,000.00 which was in the 2nd category of the draws. You are to receive $1,500,000.00 (One Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).This program is in conjunction with Australian, British and European Governments and the Coca-Cola bottling company International.
Because of mix up in cash pay-outs, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your winning prize ($1,500,000.00) is fully remitted to you by our accredited pay-point bank. You are advised to adhere to this instruction so as to forestall the abuse of this program by other participants.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR CASH PRIZE TO YOU, CONTACT OUR PAYING BANK ADDRESS WRITTEN BELOW.
Send them the following informations:
(i) Your name:
(ii) Contact telephone:
(iii) Contact Address:
(iv) Your ticket and prize numbers:
(v) Quote amount won:
(vi) Notification date:
PAYING BANK CONTACT.
Contact Person: Mr. David Chapman
Email: chapmandavid35 @gmail.com
Congratulation once again from the Coca Cola Online Award Department.
Note: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR PAYING BANK DIRECTLY FOR YOUR CLAIMS. YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO PAY A FEE TO CLAIM YOUR WINNINGS, IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY.
Yours in service,
Dr. Chris Martin.
Coca-cola Lottery Co-ordinator.
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I received a text message last week saying: "Alert! Your mobile No is Selected as a winner of 1750000 on Coke Promo with Win No AU2111_B. To claim now, Email: info@colaseson.co.uk"
I received a text message today:"alertYour mobile no is selected as a winner of 150,00,00Gpa in coca cola annual award UK, massage from HP -611356,To claim now, email :cocaco-uk@activist.com"
I received this text message today:"your mobile no is selected as a winner of 150,000,00 GPA IN COCO COLA ANNUAL AWARD UK, promo with win no-HP611356.To claim now, email :cocaco-uk@activist.com."
I received a text today 6/3/2017 as follows. MSG: Coca_cola Promo Your cell won. To claim, go to SEND Ref#CC742217Q to e-mail award.ca@cocacola-ca.com.
I have not been asked for money to collect the so called Coca cola price of 1 million 500 prize, but they did say I should open a bank account and provide information for that account so the check can be deposited. I assume this could be a scam but not sure since I did enter such a contest. If I give them my bank account information what is the danger to me if this is a scam?
There is no danger giving out your bank account number. But, the scammers will subsequently ask you to send money, or send you a fake check, ask you to cash it, take your share and send the rest to them via MoneyGram, Western Union or other money transfer services. But, the check will bounce, you will be responsible for the cash you have taken, fees for processing the check, and you may get arrested for fraud.
Hi, I just recurved this email. Of course it's a scam because I never entered any lottery. Please be aware this is very real and u might as well not bother. Be aware!
How is it possible with our technology . These scams cannot be traced back to source
It can be traced back to the source, but the cyber-criminals will quickly move to another location, especially to developing countries, where there is little or no law against cyber-crime activities.
