Lottery Scam Email:
Coca Cola/ SA 2010 Lottery
"Mrs.Eva Morris", "Dr.Fred Moyo"
"to promote South African 2010 World Cup"
Have you received an email from "Mrs.Eva Morris" at "Coca Cola/ SA 2010 Lottery" telling you that "your
email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to
contact "Dr.Fred Moyo" to collect your winnings? It is a
scam. Coca Cola is not authorized to operate a lottery. A promotion or
sweepstakes perhaps, but not a lottery. And any promotion would be very
well publicized; after all, that is the point! And why would Coca Cola join up
with a Tobacco company "to promote South African 2010 World Cup".
It defies any reason.
In any event, no legitimate, legal lottery notifies winners via email (see footnote)! The scammers may
change the names and details, but it is still a scam!
Below is the example of the fake lottery scam claiming to
be from the "Coca Cola/ SA 2010 Lottery".
Although the most important clue is that no legitimate
lottery will ever email a winner, there are many other signs that this is a fraud.
We have
highlighted some of these in the email below, not the least
of which are:
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Email address ballot: There is no such thing as a
"computer ballot system" or "computer email draw". No one, not even
Microsoft has a database of email addresses of the type or magnitude they
suggest.
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"No tickets were sold": You care to explain where the
money comes from? Perhaps the lottery money fairy? Why would a lottery
give away money to "email address randomly selected by a computer ballot
draw system"? This is CLEARLY nonsense: you MUST, repeat MUST buy a
ticket to have a chance of winning any lottery!
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Terrible spelling, punctuation, syntax and grammar - Scammers
apparently don't know how to use spell checkers. We assume they
dropped out of school before that class. They use almost excessive and random CapItaLiZAtion.
Names are usually in all capital letters for some reason known only to these
illiterate criminals. They often can't even spell "February" or know that "22th" ought to
be "22nd". These scammers usually write at the 3rd grade level.
Being non-native English speakers, they also often get first names and
surnames (last names reversed), so you will frequently see names like "Mr.
SMITH JAMES.", instead of "Mr. James Smith", along with the peculiar usage
of periods (full stops) and spaces or the lack thereof. Real lotteries also proofread their emails
and look and read more professional.
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Using free email account: The scammer is writing to
you from a FREE email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, AIM, Gmail, etc.). Don't you think a real organization
would use it's own email, it's own domain and website?
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Keep Confidential - Real lotteries THRIVE on
publicity - they don't want you to keep anything secret - the publicity
causes people to buy more tickets. there is NO risk of "double claiming"
because they can validate where the ticket numbers were sold. The scammer
want you to keep quiet because they don't want the police or
ConsumerFraudreporting to hear about them! It should read: "For our own security, you
are advised to keep your winning information confidential until we have
finished scamming you!"
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Email notification: NO REAL LOTTERY SENDS AN EMAIL TO
NOTIFY WINNERS. Period. Full-stop. End of story. There mere fact
ALONE that you received an email saying you won a lottery is proof that it
is a scam.
Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification.
Actual scam email (One example - the scammers constantly change
names, dates and addresses!):
FROM THE DESK OF COCA-COLA LOTTERY PROGRAM MANAGER, MRS.
EVA MORRIS.
(Program Manager)
Ticket No: (7YZ206
ballot No: BT120/A
South Africa
COCA-COLA/SA 2010 LOTTERY AWARD
Congratulations your email is among the seven lucky
winning, that won$2,000,000.00{Two million United State Dollars}Each in the
just concluded draw held to promote South African 2010 World Cup,sponsored by
cocacola, british american tobacco companies south africa.for prize
claiming,Call your claiming agent and email him your winning details.
Dr.Fred Moyo
Foreign Service Manager
S.A. Mutual Insurance (pty) ltd
Tel: +27 73-973-4709.
Email:
sa-mutual@galmail.co.za
Alt :
sa-mutual@webmail.co.za
And also provide the following information for the
processing of your winning fund.
NAME:..................
ADDRESS:.................
NATIONALITY:......................
SEX:..................
AGE:................
PHONE/MOBILE:..........................
FAX:...................................
OCCUPATION:............................
COMPANY:......................
TICKET NO:..........................
BALLOT NO:...............................
Your Email Attached to Ticket No: (7YZ206) and ballot
No: BT120/A)
Yours Faithfully,
MRS. EVA MORRIS
COCA-COLA LOTTERY PROGRAM MANAGER.
Names of Scam / Fake / Fraud Lottery
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* Re: emails of winnings. We know of only ONE exception in the world to this rule
- and if you bought a ticket from them, you would know it, and would used their
safegaurds.
* Re: emails of winnings. We know of only ONE exception in the world to this rule
- and if you bought a ticket from them, you would know it, and would not be
questioning it.
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