Coca Cola Lottery
Gosh, I am so lucky, not only winning 2 Million US Dollars yesterday from the World Cup Lottery, but today I am informed that I’ve won 705,253 Euros in another lottery that is supposedly run by no other than the company responsible for Coca Cola!
A screenshot of the e-mail informing me of my winnings appear below:
A larger version of the above screenshot can be found here.
I wouldn’t mind so much if there really was any money, but just like the World Cup Lottery e-mail I received yesterday, there isn’t any money at all. The people responsible for these lottery e-mails are nothing more than scam artists, shucksters and crooks. They are trying to get money from you, not give it to you.
In this one they are trying to not only get money from you, although you won’t know that until you have contacted them, but they are also after personal details which they will then add to a ’suckers’ list to send you similar lottery scams via the postal service. I blogged about these postal lottery scams recently.
Update: There seems to another version of this scam running at the same time, however in the other version the address is a UK one rather than a Spanish one. The value of the prize [which still doesn’t exist] is also larger in the UK one, stating that the recipient has won 2.5 Million US Dollars.
More details on this one can be found here: http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/06/colascam.html?pl_id=9&lang_id=1&lp_keyword=colascam
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