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  • 2021-06-09 (xsd:date)
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  • SCAM ALERT: The ‘Coca-Cola Welfare Fund’ is Not Giving Away Lottery Money (en)
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  • An online survey purportedly from the Coca-Cola Welfare Fund is promising you a chance to win money in a lottery. But like many things online, it is a scam, and you should not click on any link promising this so-called opportunity. The link spread far and wide in early June 2021, across Facebook pages in many countries, stating a variation of: Click to enter to participate in the survey, have a chance to win 7000 peso. In Cambodia, it reportedly offered a chance to win 200,000 riel, the local currency. Screenshots show the scam was also shared in multiple languages: The post spread so much that the Cambodian Ministry of Interior’s Anti-Cybercrime Department released a statement to warn people not to click on a link claiming to be from the Coca-Cola Welfare Fund. Chea Pov, the director of the anti-cybercrime department, said such posts were intended to spread viruses, collect user data, and locate users. Even Coca-Cola in the Philippines weighed in on its official Facebook page: Coca-Cola Philippines Careers released the following statement: Scams claiming to be from Coca-Cola have been circulating for some time. In late 2020, Coca-Cola’s United Kingdom office responded to a rumor about an email from the company that was promising customers a lot of prize money. The company posted on its website, We’re aware there are hoax emails and text messages in circulation that claim – quite falsely – to belong to a Coca‐Cola promotion. They’re scams designed to extract financial information from you. So please ignore them. (en)
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