FedEX Scam?
So being an avid online shopper that I am, I got this email this morning which read like this:
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DATE: 09TH SEPT, 2009.
Customer Service:
We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Package that is registered
with us for shipping to your residential location. We had thought that your
sender gave you our contact details. It may interest you to know that a letter
is also added to your package. However, we cannot quote the content of your
package, except that it has a Bank Draft worth of $886,000.00 (Eight Hundred
and Eighty Six Thousand US Dollars).
The package is registered with us for mailing by an official of the united
nation office from UK. We are sending you this email because your package is
been registered on a Special Order. What you have to do now, is to contact our
Delivery Department for immediate dispatch of your package to your residential
address. Note that as soon as our Delivery Team confirms your information, it
will take three (3) working days (72Hrs) for your package to arrive at your
designated destination.
For your information, the VAT & Shipping charges as well as Insurance fees have
been paid by your colleague before your package was registered.
Note that the payment that is made on the Insurance, Premium & Clearance
Certificates, are to certify that the Bank Draft is not a Drug Affiliated Fund
DAF) neither is it funds to sponsor Terrorism in your country. This will help
you avoid any form of query from the Monetary Authority of your country.
However, you will have to pay a sum of £105 GBP which is equivalent to $210 USD
to the FedEx Delivery Department being full payment for the Security Keeping
Fee of the FedEx Company as stated in our privacy terms & condition page. Also
be informed that your colleague wished to pay for the Security Keeping charges,
but we do not accept such payments considering the fact that all items &
packages that is registered with us have a time limitation and we cannot accept
payment without knowing when you will be picking up the package or even respond
to us. So we cannot take the risk to have accepted such a payment incase of any
possible demurrage. Kindly note that your colleague did not leave us with any
further information.
We hope that you respond to us as soon as possible because if you fail to
respond until the expiry date of the foremost package, we may refer the package
to the British Commission for Welfare as the package do not have a return
address. Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx Delivery Post) with the
details given below:
Contact Person: Mr. Richard raynor
Email: fedexdelivery.express_@live.com
Tel: +2348066879532.
Kindly complete the below form and send it to the email address given above..
This is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone numbers.
FULL NAMES:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
COUNTRY:
As soon as your details are received, our delivery team will give you the
necessary payment procedure so that you can effect the payment for the Security
Keeping Fees. As soon as they confirm your payment of £105 GBP which is
equivalent to $210 USD, they shall immediately dispatch your package to the
designated address. It usually takes 72 Hours being an express delivery
service.
Ensure to contact the delivery department with the email address and ensure to
fill the above form as well to enable successful reconfirmation.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs .Mary maxwell
FedEx Management Team.
All rights reserved. © 1995-2009 FedEx.
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At first I thought "Why would I get something from Britain, especially if my orders are all coming from Asia". And then I realized that this was a scam.
1.) contact email is an @live account
2.) Very poor grammar (for instance, the sir names are not capitalized).
3.) the contact telephone number is not American (when FedEX is an American company)
4.) if you search the @live account on google, you get tons of posts regarding how it's spam (thank you google)
so yea, I hate what this world has come to...
ugh i know what you mean, stupid scam cons
Yeah, everyone gets these in their mail box at least once. their always in my college email account.
Wow i never knew that could happen. At least you never falled for it. Some people do.
send it to hell......
haha, yea I got one too, but mine was from nigeria xD
I believe this scam is done by the same people. A majority of these types of scams originate from Nigeria.
Yeah. There is a law in Nigeria which makes a lot of such activities legal in Nigeria. This is why such spam are controlled from there. I wouldn't be surprised if some non-Nigerians move there to exploit that law.
It's just like some companies moves to Switzerland because companies in Switzerland can legally send fake bills to other companies. If other companies are stupid enough to just pay then it's their fault and no crime has been committed. The whole EU is full of fake bills because of this and EU really wants Switzerland to change that law, making such activities fraught like it is elsewhere.
ya, I got one from Nigeria like a couple days ago... exact same letter, different shipping place...
Its an identity theif scam! Fellow Comrades Common Sense is the Key!
back in 2005 ive recieve those kinda email's from alot of diffrent companys like FedEx & some from foreign Country Goverment,anyways i just delete em all
Coz what their trying to do is get ur info stole it to open an account like credit cards
this kinda spam is easy to do if u got the guts against the feds
-Becarefull Guys!
Quote straight from the PS3 commercial. "You can't believe everything on the internet or i'd be a Nigerian Millionaire by now."
I really wish you would change the title of your post, it makes it seem as though Fedex is some how involved in a scam? They are a great company and have always striven to do everything they can to help with any problems I have ever encountered. It really does look like your saying Fedex is a scam???
But FedEx IS being used a scamming tool. That's not my fault the scam artist used the good name of FedEx.
I usually completely avoid spam. It's not that I don't get it I just detect it so fast that I do not even open the mail. Besides my mailserver marks what it assumes to be spam.
If all spam were genuine, then I would have some interesting benefits. I would have the biggest dolphin in the world, have pills, which makes me immune to radiation poisoning, own oilwells in Taiwan, billions from Africa and Asia, won billions in lotto and similar services, got several degrees, including Ph.D. and I would have become a US citizen and have say 50 US green cards. I also won several stuff just because I live in America (which I don't!)
The anti-radiation pills were so funny that I forwarded the mail to a Fallout fanatic (I think he played Fallout 2 every day for weeks at that time). I know how you can protect yourself against radiation issues by eating stuff, but it's not a wonderdrug.
The US citizenships ones were interesting. It looked like somebody tried to sell to me just because my email showed that it isn't a US email and they assumed that I really want to move there (I don't). Even if they would provide fake ID for me, I think it would be easier, cheaper and faster to go the official way if I wanted a greencard.
It's important to remember that spam never sells real stuff so you should never buy anything there. Replying (even telling get lost) or downloading the images in the mail is a bad idea because this tells some server that your email address is active and somebody is reading it. This makes it more valuable for spammers because email addresses are traded online and they are priced after certain stuff, like known activity and assumed homeland of the owner. If an email address is considered more valuable then (against all logics) it's also spammed more. If somebody wants to sell dolphin enlargement pills, then they pay more for getting active North American or European addresses than say African addresses, but they assume that they can't sell that product to Africa anyway so it would be a waste of money even if they are cheap.
Forgot to add... Monty Python talked about spam too and making fun of people, who didn't want spam. In fact they were not allowed to get anything without spam. Looks like they predicted the internet O_O
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_eYSuPKP3Y
actually, this was in my inbox... it passed by Spam filter
Spam makes ronery people feel better?
"your package is been registered" at least learn to compose in english before you try to con those of us who can actually speak/write it.
seen a lot of this kind of scam lately, but mostly are from banks, this is the first time seeing one from a courier company
Wo... Thanks for posting man! i'd better keep a lookout. LOLs @ Email ad...
People who fell for this type of scam kinda deserves it, don't you think? It's obviously preying on the greedy nature of men when it somehow is telling you the amount of $$$ of the bank draft for no reason.
some people need to be educated bout spamming. its like down here when people got scammed of their savings account when a scammer from korea was sending out phishing emails asking for details here and there to do a "survey" for this bank. anyway rule of thumb is usualy that companies like fed ex and banks wont send out emails asking for your personal info since they would already have it in their database
Arrooooowwd