Coca Cola Lottery Not the Real Thing

Some scams are so diabolical and brilliantly planned that you can't help but feel sympathy for the poor souls who are ensnared. This is not one of those scams. A recent identify theft scheme suggests that Coca Cola has secretly been running a lottery by surfing the net and compiling e-mail addresses and then quietly contacting the winners to send them their share of the $125 million pot. Anyone falling for this one should call their local fraud squad, but only after first paying someone to slap them upside the head.

Forgetting the ridiculous concept of Coke running a promotional lottery without actually promoting it, one line of the e-mail is all it should take to realize what a poorly constructed joke this is:

We happily announce to you the draw of the coca cola International promootion programs held on the 9th of June 2006 in The United Kingdom.

Sure, I can buy the fact that the UK arm of Coke uses poor sentence structure and doesn't bother to proof-read or spell-check communication in their $125 million campaign, but I have to believe that the real company would know that the words "Coca Cola" begin with upper case letters.

What's unclear to me is how anyone who would fall for this ever figured out how to operate a doorknob in order to go out into the world to earn the money that was scammed away...

Coca Cola Lottery Notification Email Is Not the Real Thing [Kansas City Infozine News]

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