A new fraudulent phishing e-mail forwarded to Western Washington, Oregon and Alaska serving BBB exploits the brand name as well as logo of Coca-Cola for making recipients believe that they're winners of an offshore lottery prize, states BBB.org dated March 30, 2011.
Using the caption, "The Coca-Cola Company Official Prize Notification," the scam electronic mail begins by congratulating the consumer (recipient). Spamer-spamemail.blogspot.com reported this on March 25, 2011.
States the text of the e-mail that Coca-Cola is happy to declare the outcome emanating from the recently finished yearly final lottery that Coca-Cola Bottling Company and the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion together conducted on March 20, 2011. Accordingly, the reader (of the e-mail) is one of the ten fortunate winners to get the prize-money of 1,000,000 pounds on The Coca-Cola Company Promotion, the message adds. Spamer-spamemail.blogspot.com reported this.
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