This is a 419 scam mail. Please note that names used in scams are mostly fake, so do not assume that someone with the name is a scammer. The scammers have used thousands of names in their scams, including faking big companies like Yahoo and Coca Cola.

The timing could not have been worse or better depending on one's perspective despite the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party to pull out all the stops to make sure the upcoming Summer Olympics is a great show. Too bad.

Christmas may well be the time for goodwill to all men, but your goodwill will be in very short supply if you’re caught out by a Christmas online scam.

Bogus emails are doing the rounds saying you have won the 2010 World Cup lottery. This is a scam and to be honest not a very good one.

As internet is boon and so is the bane as each day scams go wild on web world. But major concerns are what are the common risk factors involved one has to really face if victim.

At present majority of frauds are making it’s origin from internet and even online criminals go missing and hard to trace thus great security risk in the form of identity theft factor which really needs to be checked.

As internet marketing is growing and so is the crime business with alarming ratio each day our inboxes are flooded with different types of emails from unknown origin with different subject headings.

Most of them are promotional trying to pull attention in sake of response . Sometimes fraud proportional emails change with seasons and so are the scams .

Watch out these promotional email subject headings before opening and responding any emails

- PEPSI COLA PROMOTION –( THE PEPSI COLA OFFICIAL PRIZE

Dear E-mail User,

Your email has just won the sum of £1,000.000.00 GBP in cash credited to a file in the just concluded COCA COLA DONATIONS END OF YEAR PROMO held on Draw Date: Saturday 05/02/2011. You were selected among the lucky recipients to receive the Grand sum of one million Great Britain pounds sterling in cash credited to fill ktu/9023118308/03 approved by Coca-Cola Board held in London, United Kingdom.
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Winning Numbers: 17, 57, 28,32,38,73 bonus 50.
Ticket Number: ktu/5323116540/01
Secret No: 0648432/10
Draw Date: Saturday 05/02/2011
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Be informed that a cheque will be issued in favor of your name as the lucky beneficiary and also your winning cheque will also been handed over to the European Union, to make delivery to your address. At this point you are advice to contact our authorized Organization to enable them commences with the delivery immediately.

Contact Information.
DHL
E-mail: dhldispatchunit@hotmail.co.uk
Name: Dr. David Patrick
Tel: +447017043379.

(1) NAME:
(2) ADDRESS:
(3) MOBILE NUMBER:
(4) DATE OF BIRTH:
(5) SEX:

PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPTCOCA'COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM
Ticket Number (7PWYZ2010)
Ballot Number (BT:12052010/20)

Dear email account user,

THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION We are pleased to inform
you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws 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 each on the COCA'COLA
COMPANY PROMOTION.

However the results were released and your email was attached to ticket number
(7PWYZ2010) and ballot number (BT:12052010/20)The online

Coca Cola, Group, Board of Directors officially announced your
email Was selected at random as the second place winner of £1,000,000.00
Great British Pounds.from the
coca cola company

1.FULL NAMES....
2.DATE Of BIRTH....
3.CONTACT ADDRESS....
4.COUNTRY....
5.MOBILE....
6.OCCUPATION....

Best Regard
Online Co-coordinator
REV: Alexandra George
Telephone +44 701 004 2984
cocacola_003@hotmail.co.uk

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Most of the business technology in sense of perfect marketing works well when it directly strikes a balance communication between consumer . Indeed SMS is certainly right choice which too have instant results . But what if they take ugly face of vishing or phishing resulting scam ,which could only take your money away.

After email now it is certainly turn for cell phone
or mobile sms scam . Imagine one fine morning you get an short service message ( SMS) on your phone saying that ” Your mobile number has won XXXXX pounds in lucky mobile draw . Just for further claim contact on XXXXX mobile number . Not only this it also also asks to send your personal details in specified email address , which looks legitimate.

But the question strikes at first instant ,how did your mobile number figured in lucky draw and won prize when you never participated in any contest ?

Watch out the some of the Mobile SMS ,which are nothing but best examples of scam messages.
what if your mobile awarded one million from yahoo MSN context held in london ,To receive your contact XXX Via Email :

If you are already aware of such scams, we recommend deleting the email and attachments instead of opening them. Some of these attachments - in words, image, or exe files, may contain virus. If you have the time, simply forward to us at your own convenience.

My goodness, they even have a Bar Code these days!

Coca-Cola is the world’s most popular soft drink. Sold in more than 200 countries, it is produced by The Coca-Cola Company and is often simply referred as Coke. Originally intended as a ‘patent medicine’ when it was invented in the late 19th century by pharmacist John S. Pemberton as a ‘coca wine’, Coca-Cola has dominated the worldwide soft drink market for decades now.

THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPTCOCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM



THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION 2010

Scammer Location: Somewhere in Africa, a place known for scams.
Scammer Email: piusbest2009@live.co.za,

This scam mail comes with an attachment. If you are receiving such mails for the first time, please note that this is a scam.

-----Original Message-----
From: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY SOUTH AFRICA REGION.
Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2010 9:28 am
Subject: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY SOUTH AFRICA REGION.

PLEASE VIEW THE ATTACH DOCUMENT
THE COCA-COLA COMPANY PROMOTION TO CREATE AWARENESS FOR SOUTH AFRICAN UP-COMING 2010 WORLD-CUP IN CONJUNCTION WITH
SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLDCUP LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

This is an interesting and stupid story that only poor scammers can think of. Giving away $750k (10% of $7.5million) to individuals hoping to change the standard of living of people around us.


Hey, wakeup, we have billions people all around the earth (forget about Universe) that needs an improved living condition, and you can't change anything by giving away so much money to individuals. Morons.

Try harder. There are rate of new self-made millionaires generated every month around the world is higher than what this $750k can do to help 10 (just TEN) individuals.

Scammers are stupid to come up with such storyline, so don't be equally stupid by believing in this bullshit.

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 10th October, 2010 in London Uk 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 each on the COCA'COLA COMPANY PROMOTION.


However the results were released today 14th October,2010 and your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2010) and ballot number (BT:12052010/20

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email.addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 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) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
COCA COLA AVENUE STAMFORD
BRIDGE LONDON
SW1V 3DW
UNITED KINGDOM.
awarddept_cocacola@yahoo.com.hk


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 the
(11th, July 2010) 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 each on the COCA'COLA COMPANY PROMOTION.

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 the (30th, August 2010) 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 each on the COCA'COLA COMPANY PROMOTION.

However the results were released on Thursday,30th,SEPTEMBER,2010 and your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2010) and ballot number (BT:12052010/20 The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email.addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.

We had Toyota, BMW, coca-cola, Heineken somewhere in our collection, and this one is great. Its a scam and don't believe it.



-----Attached-----
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 8:04 PM

RANGE ROVER AUTOMOBILES END OF YEAR PROMO
Freepost TK494 Twickenham
TW2 5UN, London.

Secret Pin No: RRA00111234
Reference Number RRA:12058006/08

This Email is to inform you that your email address just won you
500,000.00 GBP and new 2008 Model Range Rover car in the ongoing Range
Rover End of year anniversary promotion draws held today.

Name in full............
Address....................
Occupation...............
Present
Country........
Tel/fax......................

Mr David Correlas,
+44704 571 6689
Contact email:davidcorrelas07@yahoo.com.hk
Claims Agent
Range Rover Annual Promotion.

This is a fake Coca Cola lottery scam, claiming that they have picked your email address from a pool of over 29 million and you have won US$1million. Coca Cola do not run any lottery and the mail below is a scam. We have checked Coca Cola website previously and similar Coca Cola lottery or award scams have been sent periodically to different people.

It is important to note that you must not respond or contact the scammers by phone. Many have lost money in similar lottery scams (check our news archive with pointers to the top news site around the world). It is almost impossible to recover your money - the fees you need to pay before collecting the "winnings" - and millions of dollars have been lost to similar scams around the world.

THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
22 Garden Close, Stamford,
Lincs,PE9 2YP,London
United Kingdom

ATT: Beneficiary,

CONGRATULATIONS!

HANG ON!! We think that this is a scam (we seldom make mistakes), but it is your choice. Should you like to try them out, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY OF YOUR LOSSES OR DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING MONEY, HOUSE, CARS, AND YOUR HAIR!

There were real sweepstakes held at Oprah.com mid-last year. But if anyone were to receive a check recently about winning a lottery "sponsored by The Oprah Show and Walgreen", it is the latest variant of the advanced fee scam utilizing fake checks.

btw, we don't think we should call it a "xxxx scam", because it will ruin the name of the xxxx party. For example, a scam using Coca Cola's name should not be termed as "Coca Cola Scam". We think it should be called "Fake Coca Cola Scam". In this case, we should call it "Fake Oprah Lottery Scam".