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"I left Your Money at The
Courier Service"
or "Security Company" Scam
FedEx Delivery Services
"Mr Wellington", "Donald M. Smith"
"fedexdeliverydept05@live.com"
If you receive an email from Mr Wellington claiming they hadn't heard from
you, or owed you money, and left it at "FedEx Delivery Services", and now you need to contact Donald M. Smith at
fedexdeliverydept05@live.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 "FedEx Delivery Services" and tell you to contact
Donald M. Smith 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 Donald M. Smith, who presumably works at "FedEx Delivery Services" is
having you write to him at "fedexdeliverydept05@live.com". Shouldn't he
have a real company address like "Donald.Smith@FedEx.com" ?
Here are some other clues to the scam:
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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.
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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?
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"FedEx Delivery Services" - Have you ever heard of FedEx Delivery Services? What is it's
website? Why wasn't that in the email?
Actual scam reply email (One example - the scammers constantly change
names, dates and addresses!):
From: "FedEx Delivery Services" <info@fedex.com>
Subject: You Have A Package; Contact FedEx
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:37:16 -0400 (EDT)
Greetings!
I have been waiting for you ever since to contact me
for your Confirmable Bank Draft of $1,243,000.00 United States Dollars, but
I haven't heard from you since that time. So I went and deposited the Draft
with FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, West Africa. Mean while, I've travelled out of
the country for a 3 Months Course and will not be back till the end of
June.
What I would advise you to do now is contact the
FEDEX COURIER SERVICE as soon as possible to know when they would commence
the delivery of your package to you because of the expiry date. For your
information, I have paid for the delivery Charges, Insurance premium and
Clearance Certificate fee of the draft showing that it is neither connected
to Drug Money nor meant to sponsor any terrorist attack in your Country.
The only money you will send to the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE to deliver your
Draft direct to your postal Address in your country is($215.75) US Dollars
only being Security Keeping Fee of the Courier Company sofar. Again, don't
be deceived by anybody to pay any money more than $215.75 US Dollars for
the Security Keeping Fee of the Courier Company.
I would have paid that but I was denied of it as
they argued that they don't know when you will contact them in the case of
any demurrage. You have to contact the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE now for the
delivery of your Draft with this information below; Contact Person: Mr.
Donald M. Smith Email Address:
fedexdeliverydept05@live.com Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your
Postal address and Direct telephone number to them again to avoid any
mistake on the delivery and ask them to inform you of when your package
would get to your address once it is on transit. Let me repeat again, try
to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid further delay and
remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of $215.75 US Dollars for
their immediate action.
You should also let me know through email as soon as
you receive your Draft.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr Wellington.
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