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If you receive an email from an unknown person claiming they hadn't heard from you, or owed you money, and left it at "Royal Courier Company", and now you need to contact Benjamin Samuel at royaldiplomaticcouriercompany@gmail.com to recover the money; well, by now you should immediately recognize it as a scam. Why would someone you don't know owe you a huge sum of money, and leave it at a "courier" or a "security company or "Royal Courier Company" and tell you to contact Benjamin Samuel in order to retrieve? It simply makes no sense. You should immediately dismiss it as a scam.
However, if you really have a desire to be a victim, and are saying to yourself "but, but, but... what if I just forgot that I'm owed a huge sum of money, or maybe they got me by mistake and will still send me the money". Well, first, we'll tell you that's just pathetic.
Next ask yourself why Benjamin Samuel, who presumably works at "Royal Courier Company" is having you write to him at "royaldiplomaticcouriercompany@gmail.com". Shouldn't he have a real company address like "Benjamin Samuel@Royal Courier Company.com" ?
Here are some other clues to the scam:
Pigeon English - Notice that as the scammer gets past the initial template email and must write free-form, how his grammar, spelling and basic sentence structure go straight in the toilet. The scammers don't even know how to use spell checkers. After all, this is a stupid, low-life criminal in the heart of Africa, who probably dropped out of school at age 5 to join a gang or militia. Obviously, real businesses proofread their emails; they look and read more professional.
Using free email account: The scammer is writing to you from a FREE email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, AIM, Gmail, etc.). Don't you think a real organization would use its own email, its own domain and website?
"Royal Courier Company" - Have you ever heard of Royal Courier Company? What is it's website? Why wasn't that in the email?
The recipient told us: "
This is the email I was sent and a cashier's check did arrive in the amount of $15000.00. I took it to my bank and they said it was a total fake. Who should I report this to?
My Dear Good Friend,
I have Paid for the delivery fee for your Cheque Draft.but the manager of Bank of africa told me that before the check will get to you that it will expired. So i told him to cash $2.500,000.00 all the necessary arrangement of delivering the $2.500,000.00 in cash was made with ROYAL COURIER COMPANY.
Be inform that theIR are some documents to be secured and i have done that,also all the Certificate that will lead the Box to your Doorstep has been issued to me by the Fedral Ministary of Finance here in Benin.
The only fee you have to send to them is $120 usd which will serve as the insurancefee and claims of affadvite to enable them deliver the parcel to your given address.
Kindly re-confirm the following information to MR. BENJAMIN SAMUEL the MANAGER ROYAL COURIER COMPANY BENIN for THE final verification of your details so that the package will be deliver in your favour, please contact MR. BENJAMIN SAMUEL via e-mail ( royaldiplomaticcouriercompany@gmail.com ) and te/fax +229 9765 8323.
1) Your full name, 2) Phone number ( mobile should be included) .
3) Your complete home address avoid mistakes
Note That the ROYAL COURIER COMPANY don't know the contents of the Box.
I registered it as consignment/family trasure. They did not know the contents was money. this is to avoid them delaying with the BOX.
Don't let them know that box contents money ok. I am waiting for your urgent response.
BEST REGARD,
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