by Peta
Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:18 am
A fairly standard lottery scam. Neither Coca Cola nor FIFA have any connection to this fraud. The scammer has included a FIFA link in a poor attempt to give the impression that this fake lottery has the backing of FIFA. Anyone trying to claim the prize money would soon be facing demands for the payment of fees from a phony legal representative.
X-Originating-IP: [41.208.48.176]
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
From: SA 2010 <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:27 AM
Subject: CONGRATULATION 2010 WORLD CUP YOU HAVE WON £250,000.00
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/organisati ... index.html
Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the concluded final draws of Coca-Cola 2010 World Cup Promo held in South Africa on 25th July 2009 at 10:00am.
The online Coca-Cola 2010 World Cup draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,000 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet in all the countries where our products exists which is our social responsibility to our valued customers. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of fifty winners in the Second category for the second prize with the following data:
Ref Number: CC/942OYI/02/UKBN
Batch Number: 12/26/5050Ticket Number: 025-11464992-1100
You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of £250,000 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS) each from the total payout.
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you by our affiliate Bank in United Kingdom , Canada and South Africa upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
Please note;due to some dangerous and uncontrolable internet scams all over the world that seems to come from us we have made it save and secure for you to claim your winning prize with our appointed claim agent. You have the right to request for the copies of identity and international passport of the claim agent please take note if your claim agent refuse to provide you with the two identity documents please do not further the claim it is a scam but once he provide his identity document with his below given ID number proceed with him he is the right claim agent from us.
To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent with his ID No.7001016525083 for SECOND category winners with the information below,
1. FULL NAMES
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
4. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH / (SEX:
5. OCCUPATION
6. TELEPHONE NUMBERS / MOBILE
6. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY)
7. MARITAL STATUS
8. REFERENCE NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND TICKET NUMBER.
You are also advised to give the following information’s to the claim's agent via email as stated below;
Claims Agent's E-mail: ([email protected])
NAME: BRIAN HOFFMAN
TELE: +27 73 3662559
FAX: +27 86 558 1818
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 working days from today. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with your claims agent.
Yours sincerely,
DAVID WILL
CHAIRMAN OF THE FIFA TICKETING SUB-COMMITTEE
&
DIRECTORS, 2010 WORLD CUP PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS
THE COCA COLA COMPANY
You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers.. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).
Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
"Coke" and "Coca-Cola" are registered trade marks of The Coca-Cola Company.
The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company. Along with Coca-Cola®, recognized as the world's most valuable brand, the Company markets four of the world's top five nonalcoholic sparkling beverage brands, including Diet Coke®, Fanta® and Sprite®, and a wide range of other beverages, including diet and light beverages, waters, juices and juice drinks, teas, coffees, energy and sports drinks. Through the world's largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy the Company's beverages at a rate exceeding 1.4 billion servings each day. For more information about The Coca-Cola Company and its numerous initiatives to support football from the local level to the FIFA World Cup™, contact, your claim agent.
We can only hope he is wondering why his format isn't working. Unfortunately, I am sure many might still think this is legit and if they ask the scammer about it, he will have a 'story' to explain it all. 
Funny thing is I have just got a similar email to this one, also the Coca Cola Fifa lotto scam but the draw was held tomorrow the 9th Jan 2010 and even more interestingly the results were published on the 30th Jan 2010. So theoretically I have won a $1M before the draw has even been held or the results published.
Thank you for those kind words. I should be able to recognise them by now as at work we receive dozens of them per month. We have managed to block a lot of the addresses but they just use a new one each time. But yes I do agree with you that alerting them to their mistakes is in itself a mistake. And the sad thing is that they do catch people out with it and in a way it serves the victims right as it is greed that makes them respond that way.
