{"id":849,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Advance-Fee-Scam---'Coca-Cola-Anniversary-Promo'","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Advance Fee Scam &#8211; &#8216;Coca-Cola Anniversary Promo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3 class=\"noMargin\">Outline<\/h3>\n<p>Email purporting to be from Coca-Cola claims that your email address has been chosen as the winner of $1million in the &#8216;Coca-Cola Anniversary Promo&#8217;. <\/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<h3 class=\"noMargin\">Brief Analysis<\/h3>\n<p>The email is not from Coca Cola. There is no prize. It is an advance fee scam designed to trick you into sending money and personal information to cybercriminals.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"noMargin\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<p><strong>Subject: You&#8217;ve Won $1million In The Coca-Cola\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 128th Anniversary Promo<\/strong><br \/>\nDear Consumer,<br \/>\nCongratulations!<br \/>\nYour email have been randomly picked by a Coca-Cola\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 powered email newsletter software operated by legally registered United States freelance tech experts to receive a Coca-Cola\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 rewards prize of $1million in the ongoing Coca-Cola\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 128th anniversary celebrations promo.<br \/>\nFor claims, please submit Name, Age, Tel\/Phone, &amp; Address.<br \/>\nThanks for your cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Coca-Cola\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Offers &amp; Promotions<br \/>\nTo celebrate 125 years of sharing happiness since the first Coca-Cola was enjoyed on May 8, 1886, The Coca-Cola Company is thanking everyone who has made refreshing the world since then possible with innovative, cultural events and exclusive collaborations throughout the year and around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"noMarginDA\">Detailed Analysis<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"adjustPad\">Email Claims You Have Won $1million in the &#8216;Coca-Cola Anniversary Promo&#8217;<\/h4>\n<div class=\"indentPara\">According to this email, which claims to be from Coca-Cola, you have won $1million in the &#8216;Coca-Cola Anniversary Promo&#8217;. The message claims that your email address was randomly selected as the winner by a &#8216;Coca-Cola powered email newsletter software operated by legally registered United States freelance tech experts&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>You are instructed to submit your name, age, and contact details by replying to the email.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4 class=\"adjustPad\">Email is an Advance Fee Scam<\/h4>\n<div class=\"indentPara\">But, alas, you are not an instant millionaire after all. The email is not from Coca Cola and you have not won any prize.<\/p>\n<p>The message is a typical advance fee scam. If you reply with your details as requested, you will soon be asked to send various fees, ostensibly to cover costs such as insurance, taxation, banking, and legal costs.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers will insist that the requested fees must be sent in advance and cannot be deducted from the prize itself. If you do send money, you will likely receive requests for even more imaginary fees. The fee requests may continue until your run out if money or realize that you are being scammed. <\/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>Of course, the scammers will pocket all the money you send and it is very unlikely that you will ever get any of it back.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, as the scam plays out, you may be asked to supply a large amount of your personal and financial information. This information may be then used to steal your identity.<\/p>\n<p>Advance fee lottery scams like this are very common and continue to find new victims every day. To make their claims more legitimate, the criminals often use the names and logos of high profile companies such as <a title=\"Coca-Cola Online Promo Advance Fee Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/coca-cola-online-promo-scam.shtml\">Coca Cola<\/a>, <a title=\"Google 10th Anniversary Awards Lottery Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/google-anniversary-lottery-scam.shtml\">Google<\/a> and <a title=\"Microsoft World Lottery Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/microsoft-world-lottery-scam.shtml\">Microsoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be wary of any message that claims you have won a large sum of money via the random selection of your email address.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\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<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/advance-fee-scam-coca-cola-anniversary-promo\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/advance-fee-scam-coca-cola-anniversary-promo\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline Email purporting to be from Coca-Cola claims that your email address has been chosen as the winner of $1million in the &#8216;Coca-Cola Anniversary Promo&#8217;. Brief Analysis The email is not from Coca Cola. There is no prize. It is an advance fee scam designed to trick you into sending money and personal information to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}