[André]

Don´t you just love emails like this!!!

"Dear Customer!!!



We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmed Package that is registered with us for shipping to your residential location. We thought that the sender gave you our contact details and that you would have contacted us by now. we would also let you know that a letter is also attached to your package. However, we cannot quote its content to you via E-mail for privacy reasons. We understand that the content of your package itself is a Bank Draft worth $800,000.00 USD; in FedEx we do not ship money in CASH or in CHEQUES but in Bank Drafts only. The package is registered with us for mailing by your colleague, and your colleague explained that he is from the United States but he is in Nigeria for a three (3) month Surveying Project. for he is working with a consulting firm in Nigeria West Africa.



We are sending you this E-mail because your package is been registered on a Special Order. What you have to do now, is to contact our Delivery Department for the immediate dispatch of your package to your residential address. Note that as soon as our Delivery Team confirms your information, it will only take us one working day (24 hours) for your package to arrive at its designated destination. For your information, the VAT & Shipping charges as well as processing fees have been paid by your colleague before your package was registered.



We are sending you this E-mail because your package is been registered on a Special Order. What you have to do now. 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 $95US Dollars to the FedEx Delivery Department 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 facts that all items & packages registered with us has a time limitation and we cannot accept payment not knowing when you will be picking up the package or even respond to us. So we cannot take the risk to have accepted such payment in case of any possible demurrage.


Kindly note that your colleague did not leave us with any further information. We hope that you send your response 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 those not have a return address..


You are required to contact the delivery department (FedEx Delivery Post) with the details given below:

FedEx Delivery Post
Contact FedEx Delivery Email: ( fedexteam@hotmail.co.uk )
( fedex.team@ozledim.net)
Barr. David Moore.
Managing Director
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:
OCCUPATION:
SEX:
AGE:
Kindly complete the above form and submit it to the delivery management on: ( fedexteam@hotmail.co.uk )




As soon as your details are received, our delivery team will give you the necessary payment procedure so that you can affect the payment for the Security Keeping Fees. As soon as they confirm your payment receipt of $95 US Dollars. They will not hesitate to dispatch your package as well as the attached letter to your residence. which usually takes 24 hours being an overnight delivery service. 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 Nigeria and he has not gotten a phone yet. We 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 given above and ensure to fill the above form as well to enable a successful reconfirmation.


Yours Faithfully,
Mr John Horton.
FedEx Online Team Management.
All rights reserved. © 1995-2011"

[Smurfysmurf]

Wonder how many fall for that scam

[Tintin]

Hi

Wonder how many fall for that scam

So you are saying i shouldn't have written all my data to these guys

Tintin

[André]

I remember many years ago when they had a televisionprogram about this. It was a program about a person who followed the instuctions.
But in that case it was something like a person having a lot of money in a bank but could not get hold of them and needed help with a initial amount to get hold of the rest of the money. Something like this email:

"Dear Friend,

This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however,it’s just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am a banker by profession from Burkina faso in west Africa and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank.

I have the opportunity of transfering the left over funds ($22.5million) of one of my bank clients who died along with his entire family on 31 july 2000 in a plane crash.You can confirm the genuiness of the deceased death by clicking on this web site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Hence,i am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be sharedbetween us in the ratio of 60/30 while 10% will be mapped out for expenses. send your private phone number to call you, it shows more trust. If you agree to my business proposal.further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail.have a great day.

I want you to call me on phone for more informations(or)send your information to for the transactions.

Your Faithfully
Mr Sawadogo Campoare
+ 226 766-44-000. "

After paying a few times with higher amount every time because of new costs they ended up in a bank in Holland( I think?? Could have been Belgium??). The reason for this was that they wanted to see who was behind these emails. And probably also wanted to make a intresting program?? Off course they could not arrest anyone for the scam but it was a nice program.

I sometimes also gets emails that I have won amounts like £500.000.00 GBP on a lottery. It is amazing that you can win this amount of money without paying anything??

I find them very amusing and funny, but I really hope that nobody falls for them like you say Maureen!

[Lia]

Lia

[Cassiebsg]

Personally I just ignore them and delete them, if they aren't stopped by my email provider Spam filter before they reach me.

I still wonder how ppl can fall for these scams, but most ppl that do only care/think about one thing: money!!!
So it's not just being naive, but one also has to have a certain degree of greed - which is needed to be able to be scammed.

[bwalters]

Quite awhile back I was contacted by a femail on Myspace. We emailed back and forth for a long time as sometimes she PM'ed me. She sent me several pic's of her all diffrent. One she was laying on a towel with a book beside her opened. Next time we talked I asked her if she had ever read that book. She said no. I also tested her many times with questions almost any american should know. ( of course I have seen Jay Leno's Jaywalking). Anyway she sent me a casher's check for $2800 and wanted me to cash it and send her a check back. I told her I didn't get the check and she sent me another one for $3500. I knew all along this was a scam but was just seeing how far this girl would go. When I got the second check I compaired the two. Same Check design, two diffrent banks, Two diffrent people sent them from two diffrent companys. I told her the FBI came to my door and took the second check and showed me the first one they already had. Never heard from her again.