Monday, June 22, 2009

Online Lottery Scam

Please read the following email carefully, it is a fraud, fraud, fraud nothing else!!!!
Email which was sent to me is like this :
"...
THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPT:COCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM

THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on (28th August, 2007 ) by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £1,000,000.00{One Million Great Britain Pounds} each in the THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2007 PROMO.

However the results were released today 29th August, 2007 and your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006) and ballot number (BT:12052006/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) .
This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.
To begin the claim processing of your prize you are to contact the fiduciary agent as stated below:

Mr Bradd Cooker
22 Garden Close, Stamford,
Lincs,PE9 2YP,London
United Kingdom
Email:info_promoclaims@yahoo.de

Tel:+447011131264
Tel:+447031898729
Tel:+447024070345

1. Full Names :
.........................................................
2. Residential Address :
.......................................................
3. Phone Number :Mobile&Home
......................................................
4. Fax Number :
.........................................................
5. Occupation :
.........................................................
6. Sex :
.........................................................
7. Age :
.........................................................

8. Nationality :......................................


9.Ballot No. :......... 10.Ticket No.:............

*You are adviced to forward these informations as soon as possible to
enable us attend to your file.

Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program.
*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are not to partake in this PROMOTION.

Accept our hearty congratulations once again!

Yours Faithfully,
Management.

...."

More or less all the fake lottery winner's notification is as above. One after another I am receiving this kind of email. Whenever you receive such kind of email, please consider the following.

1. You win any lottery where you didn't buy a ticket! It's really that easy! It's not just too good to be true: it's bait in a trap!
2. You receive a generous grant out of the blue. Sadly (but not surprisingly) there aren't any benevolent people regularly throwing around millions of pounds/dollars/euros to randomly chosen people. This is just the lottery scam without the ticket.
3. They send you partial payment in the form of a cheque, money order, or direct bank transfer and want you to pay them fees out of that money. They're playing you for a sucker: cheques are frequently forged, and direct transfers made by compromising some poor schmuck's online banking service. You'll wind up a victim of fraud, or a party to it.
4. They want you to send them any money of any sort for any reason. They might try to say there are courier fees or taxes to cover. They're lying. Call their bluff and tell them to take the fees out themselves -- they'll never ever agree, because they can't defraud you unless money is making the reverse trip from you to them somehow.

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