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ricas.net - it is a Fake "The UK Mobile Promo Coke" Lottery Website

The website www.ricas.net is a fake "The UK Mobile Promo" or Coke website created by lottery scammers, which are being used to trick online users into believing they are winners in some so-called The UK Mobile Promo or Coke lottery. The lottery scammers behind the lottery scamming website lure their potential victims to it using email or SMS Text messages, which claim they have won thousands or millions of dollars/pounds, and they should visit either website to claim their so-called prizes.

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The Fraudulent "The UK Mobile Promo Coke" Website - www.ricas.net

Alert! Your Mobile No is selected as winner of $2750000 on UK Mobile Lotto

Go to www.ricas.net to claim. Enter Ref: AU564718812.helpline: info.ukmobile@cash4u.

hxxp://www.ricas.net/coke/reward/promo.html
+61478787248

Once potential victims contact the lottery scammers, thinking they are contacting The UK Mobile Promo, the scammers will ask them to send personal information, and subsequently ask them to send money in order to receive their so-called prizes, which the scammers will claim the money is for taxes or processing fees. They will then ask their potential victims to send the money via Western Union, MoneyGram or other money transfer services. Once the scammers have received their victims’ money, they will disappear, leaving the victim frustrated, depress, and a few hundreds or thousands of dollars broke.

The same lottery scammers may contact their victims and attempt to scam them again using the personal information the victims sent to them, or they may sell their victims’ information to other lottery scammers, who will also attempt to scam the victims.

Therefore, online users are asked not to visit www.ricas.net, or any other websites, which claim they are winners in The UK Mobile Promo or Coke lottery and are asked to send money or personal information in order to receive their so-called prizes.

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