Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
There is no "Coca-Cola Easter SMS Raffle" promo or lottery. Therefore, recipients of a fake Coca-Cola lottery messages like the sample below, being sent by Lottery scammers, which claim that they are winners, should delete the messages. They should also not follow the instructions in them and should vist the getcoke.com, which appears to be fake Coca-Cola website created by the scammers.
Congrats! Your Mobile won 990,000 in the To redeem, send your Name and Mobile number to: sms@getcoke.com
The scammers' aim is to trick their potential victims into sending them money, which the scammers will claim is some form of processing fee or taxes. But, if the potential victims send their hard-earned money, the scammers will take it and disappear, and the victims will not get the lottery prize they were promised.
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