Friday 19 December 2008

Your payment notice via: FedEx

My reader has been on the job again. Obviously they've had so much money now that they can't fit anymore into their brimming bank account, so they are sending the surplus to me.

It must have taken this scammer quite a while to write such a long email full of - well - rubbish. I think it wins a prize for the most rambling, incoherent scam. Like other scammers, the sender has realised there are, what they describe as "scam mails that are going all-over the world" and so they warn us to "be careful with their e-mails" so that the scammers don't put our parcel "in danger with their evil plans". The very idea. Because these people are such honest people - honestly. Or maybe not.

They aren't honest, of course. They're scammers. You haven't won some random amount that you know nothing about but just happens to be with Fedex. It's an advance fee fraud. They even tell you how much to send them for the first payment. Just delete the email and don't reply. 

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Tel: +44-704-575-6666
Attention: Beneficiary:
YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.
This is to notify you that your parcel is still in the possession of our shipping department in UK under our subsidiary "World-Tropic Courier Services", this parcel contains an International Cashier Bank Draft/Cheque worth the sum of U.S$800.000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars) only and it is ready for delivery to your door step. Meanwhile, before the delivery or shipment will take place, you are advice to send to them the following details below for reconfirmation.
Fill this Form:
Name: Address: City: State: Postal Code: Country: Contact Phone Number:

The above requested information’s will enable them deliver your parcel correctly without any mistake or delivering your parcel to a wrong person. Furthermore, you might be asking yourself how come this email, cheque or draft. Anyway, your cheque was brought to the UK office by a Lottery Fiduciary Agent/Claim Agent, signifying that you are a rightful winner to their Lottery Award selected randomly from 10 lucky email addresses which your email address is one of the lucky email address.

FedEx Courier Service Company mailing you as per your parcel that was brought to our subsidiary courier company "World-Tropic Courier Services" to be delivered to you by lottery groups, along the delivery process that brought a misunderstanding between you and the lottery claim agent and in regards of their request as per their insurance certificate cost and tax fee which happened to be the course of your parcel being pending for the past months/one year.

Meanwhile we are hereby happy to inform you that FedEx Company has finalized everything with the British Insurance Commission (B.I.C) and the Internal Revenue office as the company has also listed 24 valuable parcel’s to be intact in their office after the released of the parcel’s from the insurance company and internal revenue office.

We are happy to inform you once again that your parcel that contains the sum of U.S$800.000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars) is among the 24 parcel’s listed which is now in our office in UK and also with your name as the receiver despite that we lost your private residential address’s, which is an indication that you can now re-send your residential address, telephone as stated above back to our subsidiary courier company where your parcel can be delivered to you.

You are to send this details and replies to:

NAME: MR. DONALD BLAKE EMAIL ADDRESS: delivery.parcel@fedex-tropic-courier.com PHONE NUMBER: +44-704-575-6666

Meanwhile remember that the sender of this parcel to you that the fiduciary agent still owes this company the sum of ?150 (One Hundred & Fifty British Pounds) before the incident occurred, note that this company has spend out of their incomes in the process by recovery back your parcel’s dear customer we once again appreciate your patronage in our favor. That's the only money you are to pay.

Without hesitations you are to pay for just the balance left by your sender via western union and Money Gram so that your parcel can be delivered to your residential address before it accumulate a demurrage after one week only, as you know your parcel is not just an ordinary parcel but with a huge amount and I think you understand what I mean by accumulating a demurrage? Which you will not allow to happen to your recovery parcel that almost gone.

We assure you that your parcel will arrive at your doorstep within 48hours as soon as this company receives the balance left by your sender and the tracking number of your parcel will be sent to you via e-mail immediately so that you can start tracking your parcel until it arrives your address/door step.

And also the FedEx Courier Service Company is hereby to inform all their customers by eradicating all their communication with the scam mails that are going all-over the world be careful with their e-mails so that your parcel will not be in danger with their evil plans. FedEx and World-Tropic Couriers provides access to a growing global market place through a network of supply chain, transportation, business and related information Services.

You are to make the payment of the ?150 (One Hundred & Fifty British Pounds) to the details below through Western Union or Money Gram.

PAYMENT INFORMATION:
RECEIVERS NAME------ MIKE CONNOR RECEIVER'S ADDRESS: 24 TOOTING ROAD RECEIVER'S CITY: LONDON RECEIVER'S ZIP CODE: BNQ 7N4 RECEIVERS COUNTRY----UNITED KINGDOM AMOUNT TO BE PAID---------?150 (One Hundred & Fifty British Pounds)

Please you have to send the full payment information including the MTCN Number for we to fully proceed on your delivery asap. After you make the payment, email back the details below:

1. SENDER'S NAME 2. 10 DIGITS MONEY TRANSFER CONTROL NUMBER (MTCN) Or IF you SEND VIA MONEYGRAM, THEN SEND 8 DIGITS REFERENCE NUMBER.

FedEx and World-Tropic International is one of the world's great success stories, the start-up that revolutionized the delivery of packages and information. In the past 30 years, we've grown up and grown into a diverse family of companies -a FedEx that's bigger, stronger, better than ever.

Mr. David B. Peters For: FedEx - World-Tropic Courier Services International Processing/Notification Officer:

2 comments:

  1. Thank you. I had a feeling it was a scam so I looked it up, I got the EXACT SAME E-Mail. Its great we have sights like this were we can check things like this out before making major mistakes.
    -a greatful e-mailer

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  2. Indeed it is a scam! I received the same e-mail but they gave a different contact number - +44-703-596-6097.

    Be forwarned.

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