The Coca Cola Company Promotion Prize Award: Spam Email
One of the most popular articles on my blog continues to be the “I won the Microsoft Lottery Award” article. Another popular spam email doing the rounds these days in the Coca Cola Company Promotion Prize Award.
This spam email comes from a certain Mrs. Kate Hudson of the Coca Cola Company. This spam email is primarily targetted to those living in the United Kingdom as all the variants I have seen of this spam email have their destination addresses in the UK.
The email informs me that I am one the lucky 20 winners where I won a prize money of £1,000,000 or One Million Pound Sterlings. One of the first red flags comes here. If you notice carefully, it just says £1,000.000. Notice the period after thousand instead of a comma denoting 1 million. This Coca Cola promotion award it seems was held in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.
The following is the full text of the spam email
THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPTCOCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOMTHE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION 2007
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on the (24th of March, 2007) 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 (One million Great Britain Pound Sterlings) each on the THE COCA’COLA COMPANY PROMOTION However the results were released on the (26th of March, 2007) and your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006) and ballot number (BT:12052006/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 30,031 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.
This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.
To claim your price contact your claim agent.
CONTACT PERSON: MR. DAVID JACKSON
POSITION: FINANCE DIRECTOR,HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION
2700 SANDERS ROAD PROSPECT HEIGHTS LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM.
DIRECT PHONE NUMBER: +44 703 190 9886.
EMAIL ADDRESS: jackson_david0009@yahoo.com
Kindly send the following information to your claim agent:
Ticket Number:____________________________
Ballot Numbers: _______________________ Tel/Fax Number: ________________
Full Name: _____________________________ Age: _________________________
Sex: _____________________ Company Name: ____________________________
Full Address: ________________________ Occupation:______________________
Amount Won: _______________________ Country: _________________________
Please you are adviced to complete the form and send it immediately to your claim agent through email for prompt collection of your fund.You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your ticket number and ballot number. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).
*Staff of CocaCola and the British American Tobacco Company are not to partake in this Lottery.
Accept my hearty congratulations once again!
Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Kate Hudson
Cordinator