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Fraud email example:
From: FedEx Online Management Team <FedEx@WestAfrica.Org>
Reply-To: "fedex.expresscourier617@yahoo.com.hk"
<fedex.expresscourier617@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:13:11 -0500
Subject:
Customer Service:
Dear Customer,
We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Package that is been
registered with us forshipping 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 its content to you via email for privacy
reasons.We understand that the content of your package itself is a Bank
Draft worth of $268,000.00(Two Hundred And Sixty-Eight Thousand US
Dollars). As you know,FedEx does not ship money in CASH or in CHEQUES but
BANK DRAFTS are shippable. The package is registered with us for mailing
by your colleague as claimed,and your colleague explained that he is here
in West Africa for a three (3) month Survey Project as he works with a
construction firm in West Africa. We are sending you this email because
your package is been registered on a Special Order.
What you have to do, 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 its designated destination.For
your nformation, 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 $206USD 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.Mike Brown.
Email:fedex.expresscourier617@yahoo.com.hk
Tel: +234-703-686 3627.
Kindly complete the below information and send it to the email address
given above.This is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and
telephone umbers.
FULL NAMES:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
COUNTRY:
As soon as your details are received, our delivery team will give you the
necessary payment rocedure so that you can effect the payment for the
Security Keeping Fees. As soon as they confirm your payment of $206USD,
they shall immediately dispatch your package to the designated address.
It usually takes 72 Hours being an express delivery service. Note that we
were not instructed to email you,but due to the high priority of your
package we had to inform you as your sender did not leave us with his
phone number because he stated that he just arrived England and he was not
on phone yet.
We indeed personally sealed your Bank Draft and we found your email
contact in the attached letter as the recipient of the foremost package.
Ensure to contact the delivery department with the email address and
ensure to fill the above form as well to enable successful reconfirmation.
All responses must be forwarded to:fedex.expresscourier617@yahoo.com.hk
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Margaret Blaire.
FedEx Online Management Team.
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