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If you receive an email from Mrs. Nora Adams claiming they hadn't heard from you, or owed you money, and left it at "FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, West Africa", and now you need to contact MR. RICHARD WOODS at fedexservices_express@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 COURIER SERVICE, West Africa" and tell you to contact MR. RICHARD WOODS 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 MR. RICHARD WOODS, who presumably works at "FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, West Africa" is having you write to him at "fedexservices_express@live.com". Shouldn't he have a real company address like "MR. RICHARD WOODS@FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, West Africa.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?
"FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, West Africa" - Have you ever heard of FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, West Africa? What is it's website? Why wasn't that in the email?
: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:04:47 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Contact FedEx
From: "MRS. NORA ADAMS" < info-nora@yahoo.com >
Greetings!
I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft of $800.000.00 United States Dollars, but I did not hear from you since that time. Then I went and deposited the Draft with FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, West Africa, I travelled out of the country for 3 Months and I will not be able to access my personal email.
What you have to do now is to contact the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your package to you because of the expiring date. For your information, I have paid for the delivering Charge, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor 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 ($350.00 US) Dollars only being Security Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far. Again, don't be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except $350.00US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said no because they don't know when you will contact them and in case of demurrage.
You have to contact the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE now for the delivery of your Draft with this information bellow:
Contact Person:MR. RICHARD WOODS
Email Address: fedexservices_express@live.com
Telephone: +(234)803-851-7181
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 give you the tracking number to enable you track your package over there and know when it will get to your address.
Let me repeat again,try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any further delay and remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of $250.00 US Dollars for their immediate action
You should also let me know through email as soon as you receive your Draft.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Nora Adams
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