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 03/17/2008 09:40:46 AM · #1
Don't you just love internet scams? Here's the email I got. Checked on snoops just in the off chance it might be legit, but not in this life time!

THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPT:COCA COLA AVENUE
PROMOTE BID SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP.

THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws held to promote the Bid South Africa 2010 World Cup, by
Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide
Promotion.Your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won
$2,000,000.00{Two million United State Dollars} each in the THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2008 PROMOTION CATEGORY B.

However the results were released today and your Email Address was
attached to ticket number :(7PWY2006) and ballot number / BT: 120/A)
and Ref Number: FER/4690/6103/24 . 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 co-operate bodies, companies from Asia,
United States Of America,+South America, Africa,Europe, Middle east,
Austrialia and picked by an advanced automated random computer search
from the internet.

However, all email addresses were assigned to different ticket winning
numbers for representation and privacy policies only.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) .

This Lottery was approved by the British Commission / U.S.A / S.A
Gambling Board & management S.A which is also licensed by the The International
Association of Gambling 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:

NAME: BARR ALFRED HENRY.
(CLAIM AGENT).
Email: barralfredhen@hotmail.com
TEL: +27 78 244 4998.

Please provide the following details for processing of your claim. And
send to your claiming agent. BARR ALFRED HENRY. Call him on the phone
+27
78 244 4998.

NAME:....................................
ADDRESS:...............................
NATIONALITY:.........................
SEX:.......................................
AGE:.......................................
PHONE/MOBILE:......................
FAX:.......................................
OCCUPATION:..........................
COMPANY:...............................
TICKETS/BALLOT:.....................

Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that
you keep this award strictly confidential from any public notice until your
claim prize / award has been processed and your money remitted into
your country account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
/dual claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants on 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.

03/17/2008 09:50:58 AM · #2
Originally posted by TheStick:


...Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that
you keep this award strictly confidential from any public notice until your
claim prize / award has been processed and your money remitted into
your country account.


tsk tsk tsk! :)
 03/17/2008 09:51:21 AM · #3
Sweet, congrats!

What will you do with all that money?

;-D
 03/17/2008 10:03:20 AM · #4
Amusing that the agent for such a deal has a Hotmail address. Real official, that!
03/17/2008 10:19:58 AM · #5
Agreed about the Hotmail address. And I like how the scammer uses COCA\COLA and then Coca-Cola. It looks like they chose your winning number in 2006. Oh I could go on and on but have work to do.

03/17/2008 11:25:02 AM · #6
These 419 scammers are getting better with english. When I was a property manager we used to get about one a day of the various incarnations of this scam.
 03/17/2008 11:27:09 AM · #7
you blew it by making the award announcement public here. Now, I bet you never get the money.

;-)

Message edited by author 2008-03-17 11:27:18.
 03/17/2008 11:27:11 AM · #8
We get a few of those every week. lol
 03/17/2008 11:34:48 AM · #9
Originally posted by TheStick:
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 co-operate bodies, companies from Asia,
United States Of America,+South America, Africa,Europe, Middle east,
Austrialia and picked by an advanced automated random computer search
from the internet.



Wow!! That is an exclusive list! Only 29,032,643 people. You're lucky you are so exclusive!
 03/17/2008 11:55:49 AM · #10
Originally posted by jeger:
Originally posted by TheStick:


...Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that
you keep this award strictly confidential from any public notice until your
claim prize / award has been processed and your money remitted into
your country account.


tsk tsk tsk! :)


A country account, of course, is quite discreet and less parvenue.
 03/17/2008 01:28:45 PM · #11
You had to look it up to see that it wasn't legit?
03/17/2008 02:58:42 PM · #12
Oh, and.......you're handsome beautiful, too!........8>)

Message edited by author 2008-03-17 15:01:03.
 03/17/2008 03:19:56 PM · #13
why all the sarcasm?
I believe in the goodness and honesty of mankind.
it is no wonder that you won 2000000 for such a beautiful and pleasant e-mail address.
03/17/2008 03:49:50 PM · #14
You took that thought directly out of my brain...! :)

Originally posted by _eug:
You had to look it up to see that it wasn't legit?
03/17/2008 04:05:37 PM · #15
Originally posted by alanfreed:
You took that thought directly out of my brain...! :)

Originally posted by _eug:
You had to look it up to see that it wasn't legit?


I try to be an optimistic person and if there was the smallest chance it might actually happen of course I'm going to check it out. I guess I'm stupid, thanks.
 03/17/2008 04:08:41 PM · #16
Originally posted by TheStick:
Originally posted by alanfreed:
You took that thought directly out of my brain...! :)

Originally posted by _eug:
You had to look it up to see that it wasn't legit?


I try to be an optimistic person and if there was the smallest chance it might actually happen of course I'm going to check it out. I guess I'm stupid, thanks.


I would have checked too.
 03/17/2008 04:11:29 PM · #17
Originally posted by TheStick:
Originally posted by alanfreed:
You took that thought directly out of my brain...! :)

Originally posted by _eug:
You had to look it up to see that it wasn't legit?


I try to be an optimistic person and if there was the smallest chance it might actually happen of course I'm going to check it out. I guess I'm stupid, thanks.

Try being humane about getting squirrels out of your house and see how many people jump on the calling you stupid bandwagon. ;-D
 03/17/2008 04:12:26 PM · #18
Because of the recent IKEA thread I was surfing their site. They have a foundation which apparently has been used in this exact type of mail, telling people they were eligible for a "grant" from IKEA, etc.
I can't even count how many different companies I've "won" from :)

Btw, Snopes.com is a GREAT resource when you're not sure about stuffs... Oops, I see you DID use them. I wish more folks would! :)

Message edited by author 2008-03-17 16:14:42.
 03/17/2008 04:13:56 PM · #19
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Originally posted by TheStick:
Originally posted by alanfreed:
You took that thought directly out of my brain...! :)

Originally posted by _eug:
You had to look it up to see that it wasn't legit?


I try to be an optimistic person and if there was the smallest chance it might actually happen of course I'm going to check it out. I guess I'm stupid, thanks.

Try being humane about getting squirrels out of your house and see how many people jump on the calling you stupid bandwagon. ;-D


I was with ya on relocating the little buggers. It's not like you dropped them over the state line. IMHO. :)

Message edited by author 2008-03-17 16:14:44.
 03/17/2008 04:29:49 PM · #20
Originally posted by TheStick:
I try to be an optimistic person and if there was the smallest chance it might actually happen of course I'm going to check it out. I guess I'm stupid, thanks.


I'm not trying to attack you here... it's just that this type of thing is soooooo incredibly prevalent (I get probably a dozen of them a day, literally) that I can't imagine that anyone would even suspect they're true. There are ones that allegedly come from Microsoft and tons of other places.

There are tons of red flags that should pop up in anyone's head when they receive these messages, like:

1. I don't remember entering this contest; how could I be the winner?
2. Why is this coming from a Hotmail account if it's a Coke promotion?
3. Why are they asking me to keep it a secret? Surely a big contest like this would be run without any chance of a "mix-up," wouldn't it?
4. Why do they often have such bad grammar and weird statements in their messages ("we intend to sensitize the public." Huh?)

Again, I don't mean to pick on you here, but it scares me that people actually fall for this stuff -- it should be an instant "delete" item without a second thought.

Message edited by author 2008-03-17 18:18:48.
 03/17/2008 04:34:25 PM · #21
Originally posted by alanfreed:
(I get probably a dozen of them a day, literally)


I must have a really good spam filter then because this is the first one I've received.
 03/17/2008 04:34:50 PM · #22
A few years back when I was working in lottery a woman phoned wanting info on something she'd "won". I spent quite a bit of time explaining everything to her, despite the fact that it really had nothing to do with our lottery or my job. She ended the call with, "I guess I've lost $3600, eh?"

03/17/2008 04:35:31 PM · #23
Originally posted by _eug:
You had to look it up to see that it wasn't legit?

Originally posted by alanfreed:
You took that thought directly out of my brain...! :)

Originally posted by TheStick:
I try to be an optimistic person and if there was the smallest chance it might actually happen of course I'm going to check it out. I guess I'm stupid, thanks.

Yeah well, if you don't want to get slightly snide answers and you're going to get offended when people poke gentle fun at you, then don't ask on an open, international forum.

That scam's been out there for no less than a decade.

You might also look up the word emoticonm, and it might save you from having to send someone an injured and indignant PM, too.

Nobody got really ignorant......but we could have.

Lighten up......and get out more.......8>)
 03/17/2008 04:41:05 PM · #24
Originally posted by alanfreed:
(I get probably a dozen of them a day, literally)

Originally posted by TheStick:
I must have a really good spam filter then because this is the first one I've received.

There ya go.......what does that tell you?

BTW: Foreign Lottery Scam

Look familiar?????
 03/17/2008 04:44:14 PM · #25
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by alanfreed:
(I get probably a dozen of them a day, literally)

Originally posted by TheStick:
I must have a really good spam filter then because this is the first one I've received.

There ya go.......what does that tell you?

BTW: Foreign Lottery Scam

Look familiar?????


It tells me I have a good spam filter?
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