{"id":184,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"'Coke-Promo'-SMS-Advance-Fee-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Coke Promo&#8217; SMS Advance Fee Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to a text message that has been blasted out to mobile phone users in recent days, the recipient has been selected as the winner of \u00a0  \u00a31750000 in a prize draw called &#8220;Coke Promo&#8221;. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Recipients are urged to follow a link to claim their prize or contact a helpline email address.<\/p>\n<p>But, alas, the SMS is just another advance fee scam. You have not won any money and the message has no connection whatsoever to Coke or any other legitimate entity.<\/p>\n<p>If you go to the website or respond via email, you will be asked to provide your name and contact details in order to begin processing your prize claim.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after you submit your information, you will be contacted by a criminal posing as a prize agent. \u00a0 You will be told that, before receiving your prize, you must send money to cover various fees such as banking charges, taxation, or insurance costs.<\/p>\n<p>If you do send the requested funds, more and more requests for money will likely follow.<\/p>\n<p>After you finally realise that you are being conned or run out of money to send, the scammers will disappear with your money and you won&#8217;t here from them again. And, of course, you will never receive the promised prize money, which never existed to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the scammers may have tricked you into supplying a large amount of your personal and financial information during the course of the scam. \u00a0 Armed with this information, they may steal your identity as well as your money.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/advance-fee-lottery-scams-international-lottery-scam-information\/\">Advance fee prize scams <\/a>like this continue to be very common. \u00a0 Criminals distribute them via email, social media messages, and surface letters as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/phone-text-message-lottery-scams\/\">via SMS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive one of these scam messages, do not respond. Any message in any format that claims that you have won a large sum of money or a valuable prize in a promotion that you have never entered is likely to be a scam.<\/p>\n<h2>An example of the scam text message:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Alert!:Your Mobile No is Selected as winner of  \u00a31750000 on Coke Promo. Go to www.[link removed].net to claim. enter Ref: AU66725372 .helpline: info@[link removed]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/coke-promo-sms-advance-fee-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/coke-promo-sms-advance-fee-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a text message that has been blasted out to mobile phone users in recent days, the recipient has been selected as the winner of \u00a0 \u00a31750000 in a prize draw called &#8220;Coke Promo&#8221;. \u00a0 Recipients are urged to follow a link to claim their prize or contact a helpline email address. 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