Yet Another Fedex Courier Scam

Okay, here's another courier scam. Should we play them against each other?



Sender: fedex_couriercompany110@yahoo.fr


SUBJECT:

CONTACT FEDEX DIPLOMATIC COURIER SERVICES COMPANY LTD

I've been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable BankDraft of $1,500.000.00 United States Dollars, but I did not hear from you since for a couple of weeks now.Then I went to the bank to confirm if the draft has expired or getting near to expire and Mr.James Adams the Director Bank of Africa told me that before the draft will get to your hands that it will expire. So I told him to cash the $1,500.000.00 USD UNITED STATES DOLLARS to cash payment to avoid losing this funds under expiration as I will be out of the country for a 3 Months Course and I will not come back till the ending of March 2008.
What you have to do now is to contact FEDEX COURIER SERVICES as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your Consignment to you. For your information, They accepted cash on delivery C.O.D But insisted that the security fee most be paid before the delivery will commence.So the only money you will send to the FEDEX COURIER SERVICES to deliver your Consignment direct to your postal Address in your country is ($105.00 US)One Hundred and Five United States 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 $105.00 US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said no because they don't know when you will contact them and in case of dumorage.You have to contact FEDEX COURIER SERVICES now for the delivery of your consignment with this information bellow;
Directors Name: Rev. Maxwell Shargan
Companys Name: FEDEX COURIER SERVICES
Telephone.......+229-93482374
Email Address: fedex_couriercompany110@yahoo.fr
Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address and Direct telephone number to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask them to send your airway bill and keep you updated on the arrival of your consignment 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 or increase in the dumorage and remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of $105.00 US Dollars for their immediate action.
Note this. The FEDEX COURIER SERVICES don't know the contents of the Box.I registered it as a BOX of an African cloths. They did not know the contents was money. this is to avoid them delaying with the BOX. Dont let them know that box contents money please. Finally, Endaevour to indicate this CODE (FD0081) which will prove that you are the owner of the Consignment i deposited in there company.
Yours Faithfully,
DR ADAMS JOHN

How do you like our Reply Letter

Okay, we're getting ready to start putting the scam back on the scammers. Here's a rough draft we're working on for the reply to put a couple of these spammers together. We hope you'll all participate and give us your advice on how to make this work. Let's have some fun. At the very least it will tie them up for a few days.

Dear Barrister ________,

I am so excited about this unbelievable offer. I've never won anything in my life and my financial condition has been so poor right now that I really could use this money fast. I need this so bad.

I hope you understand I'm a little hesitant to do this on my own because I've never dealt with this much money before and I don't have a FedEx account. I am really lucky because I have a relative who lives in England and when I talked to them they told me it sounds legit. I offered to give them a thousand dollars if they would help me out. One of their best friends is Barrister ___________. My cousin talked to their Barrister friend and he said he would be willing to help me secretly get the funds transferred quickly and without any problems.

I can't believe this is really happening. You are so kind to work with me on this. Are you sure you don't want some of the money. I'll gladly offer you a few thousand for making this happen.

If you'll talk to my cousins attorney he will give you all of the information you need to get this thing going. I don't know enough about Fedex and bank account transfers to feel comfortable doing this by myself. I hope you understand. My friend did mention that it would be a gesture of good faith if you could send $10 to my account to make sure the transfer works smoothly before we do the 1.4 million. I'll leave that up to you because I don't know what he's trying to do.

I still can't believe this has happened to me. I am so grateful to you for bringing this deal to me.
Please contact Barrister ___________ as soon as possible because I'm not going to be able to sleep until I know this is for real. His phone number is __________ and his email address is ________. Just so you'll know I didn't tell my cousin how much money it was because I don't trust him enough to keep his mouth shut about this. I don't want to mess this up. I want to be as secretive as possible if that's okay.

Once you talk to Barrister ________ and you work out the small $10 deal he will contact me on how to set up the deal the best way. We have a fedex office real close to our house so I should be able to set up the account and pay the $135 real easy once I have the right directions for how to put the deposit down to pay for the transfer. I'm going to take the $135 deposit out of my paycheck so my wife won't know. She is going to be so surprised when I buy her a new car. We might even take a trip to Germany to personally meet with you and thank you for finding us. This is a dream come true. Thank you so much.

Your grateful friend,
______________


Please post your comments on what we can change to make this letter work so we can get one scammer to contact another scammer.

German Fedex Courier Scam full of mispelled words and poor grammar.

Here's a good candidate for a spam scammer we could match up with another spam scammer.

Now these scammers proclaim they have given the courier our address which we need to verify. We seriously doubt this is the case being that they don't even know our name. Also, how could a Barrister (attorney) not know how to spell affidavit? I guess the law schools in Germany don't check for spelling errors...LOL.

On the bright side it was nice of them to refer to us as "My Dear"...shouldn't they have called me "My Dear Sucker Candidate" :)

Here's the latest scam from "Barrister Paul Dan. Now that's a real German sounding name, don't you think?

Title of the email read: CONTACT FEDEX OFFICE IMMEDAITELY FRIEND THANKS.
Note: If we contact the Fedex office we'll request that they teach their customers to learn how to spell immediately.

Here's the email scam: We're thinking Dr. Matthew Godwin may be getting a call from one of our other scammers real soon.

Attention, My Dear

I have Paid for the delivery fee for your Cheque Draft.but the manager of Ecok Trust Bank Plc Benin told me that before the check will get to you that it will expire.So i told him to cash $1.4million United States Dollars all the necessary arrangement of delivering the $1.4million United States Dollars in cash was made with FEDXE EXPRESS DELIVERY COURIER DIRECTOR.

Below is the needed information to enable them deliver your fund to you immediately. the only fee you have to pay them is $135 usd only that they will use it to obtain security keeping fee and claims of affadvite that will prove that the parcel belong to you be rest assure that all other fees have been paid by me.
ATTN: DR Mathew Godwin.
TEl: : +229-979-368-05
EMAIL: fedex_express_delivery018@yahoo.fr
Please, Send them your contacts information to able them locate you immediately they arrived in your country with your BOX .This is what they need from you.

1.YOUR FULL NAME__________________
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS__________________
3.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER_____________
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE_______________
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE_________________
SHIPMENT CODE AWB 33XZS
PACKAGE REGISTERED CODE NO XGT442.
SECURITY CODE SCTC/2001DHX/567/
TRANSACTION CODE 233/CSTC/101/33028/
CERTIFICATE DEPOSIT CODE SCTC/BUN/xxiv/-78/01

Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increasing the security keeping fee.I gave them your delivering address but you have to reconfirm it to them again to avoid any mistake in the delivering including with your ID or Picture.Hoping to hear from you as soon as you cash your Draft .
Thanks and God bless you and your family.
BARRISTER PAUL DAN
FRANKFURT-GERMANY

BONUS NOTE: If we could only receive $1 from each of these scammers we would have accumulated a nice chunk of change by now. Maybe we'll work on this in the future. Something along the line of...will you send me $1 to proof to me that you are serious.

Let's have some fun Contest

We're thinking about connecting a few of these scammers with each other so they can hassle each other for awhile instead of innocent people. We're currently taking suggestions for the best way to accomplish this without getting our blog hacked.

1. We need a perfect email address which we can create to entice these scammers to play the game.
2. We need your suggestions as to who we should match up against each other on our current blog entries.

The best suggestions we receive for #1 and #2 will each be be given 50 EntreCard Credits!!!!!!!

We'll close this contest on March 1st. Then we'll follow up with their responses.

This could be fun if guido the killer doesn't figure out how to track us down.

Thanks,
Spambusters

The Best Spam Subject Ever!

We received a spam email today which had us jumping for joy....at least for a minute. The subject read "THIS IS MY THIRD AND FINAL EMAIL TO YOU".

Could it be true? A FINAL email from a spammer! Now this is a subject line that captured our attention. It wasn't like the others, i.e. , regarding your inheritance, contact immediately, bless you for your assistance, your funds have arrived, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc...

Well obviously we were disappointed when we anxiously opened the SPAM email to read more of the same old stuff. You know, some guy died who wanted to leave his money to someone trustworthy because he didn't have any relatives.

It's nice to be thought of as trustworthy but it just doesn't mean as much when it's from a total stranger and oceans away.

Well anyway, here's a copy of today's spam scam of the day. If you're a helicopter pilot maybe this was meant for you since this guy apparently in a Helicopter society of some sort. We could think of a lot easier groups to match up with strangers such as "He was a member of the "I don't care for barristers of lawyers who claim to have inheritance club.

Here's today's spam scam from DAVID SMITH AND ASSOCIATES' david.smith1esq22@yahoo.co.uk

The Barristers' Chambers:
DAVID SMITH & ASSOCIATES
Phone: +44 701 113 3308
+44 704 572 6455
Fax: +44 700 592 1653
E-mail: dsmith631@googlemail.com
Address: 33 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4JH, England


Attention:

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr.
Jurgen
Krugger,I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was
returned
undelivered.I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email
address on the WILL.I wish to notify you that late Jurgen Krugger made
you a beneficiary in his WILL. He left the sum of Thirty Million, One
Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$30,100,000.00) to you in the Codicil and
last testament to his WILL.

This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and
true.
Being a widely travelled man, he said he met you sometime in the past
or
simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends abroad
who
wished you good, I am not too sure again. Jurgen Krugger until his
death
was a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute of Electronic
&
Electrical Engineers and a German property magnate. He was a very
dedicated christian who loved to give out alms to the poor,hungry and
needy. His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during his
life
time. Late Jurgen Krugger died on the 30Th day of July, 2000 at the age
of
80. His WILL is now ready for execution after 8 years of thorough
investigation.

According to him, this money is to support your humanitarian/medical
activities and to help the poor and the needy in our society. Please if
I
reach you as I am hopeful, endeavour to get back to me as soon as
possible
to enable me conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant
time.
I am sincerely sorry if you feel bothered or embarrassed by this
message;
I am just about my own job. I do hope you understand that? Thank you.

Note: You are advised to contact me with my personal email address
below:

Email:dsmith631@googlemail.com
david.smith1esq22@yahoo.co.uk

I await your prompt response and please keep this very discrete and to
yourself until the transfer of the funds to you is finalised.

Yours in Service,

BARRISTER DAVID SMITH.
PRINCIPAL PARTNERS
PARTNERS: Barrister Aidan Walsh.Esq, Markus Wolfgang, Mr. John Marvey
Esq,
Mr. Jerry Smith Esq.

Scare Tactics Scam

Now this one was quite alarming because we could see where someone might be tempted to respond based on their concern that government authorities are getting involved. Some of these scammers are getting pretty good at catching our attention. They should be writing headlines for newspapers or magazines instead of trying to scam innocent people out of hard earned money.

This one came from:
'INDEPENDENT CORRUPT PRACTICES COMMISSION(ICPC)
cbn_org@freenet.de



Subject:

Intercepted Transfer By National Drug Law Enforcement/Anti-Terrorist Commission.

Type: Text

INDEPENDENT CORRUPT PRACTICES COMMISSION(ICPC)
HEADQUARTER: LAGOS HOUSE, IKEJA GOVERNMENT QUARTERS.
MOTTO: NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW.
YOU AND THE LAW

Re: Intercepted Transfer By National Drug Law Enforcement/Anti-Terrorist Commission.

Dear Sir/Madam,

It was reported to our Minister for Foreign Affairs that your impending
funds($10,500,000.00) which was intercepted by the National Drug Law
Enforcement/Anti- Terrorist Commission. We have investigated your
transaction through the apex bank of Nigeria(CBN), We noticed that you made
several attempt to transfer your funds but to no avail. Our
investigation continued to the judiciary upper house(National House of
Assembly),The Senate monitoring team gave an unsatisfactory report to your
transaction, hence the chairman is presently under investigation for conspiracy
and with an intension to divert your funds.

We have in our powers as the only and approved office by the Federal
Government of Nigeria taken absolute possession of your funds which has
been deposited with H.S.B.C BANK PLC LONDON. In consonance with the law
guiding this organization, It might interest you to know that Prof
Charles Soludo and others shall be interrogated and if found guilty, they
shall have no option than to pay whatever you have spent in the past.

Below is the information we have stating that it belongs to you but we
still advise that you re-confirm this again as we shall not be held
responsible for any misdirection of your transfer.

Bank name:USBank
1015 Industry Road
Lexington,Kentucky 40505
A/C# 189706657
Routing# 034577123
Swift Transfer# usbkus44imt

If the above information is not correct,then endeavour to send the
correct one including your direct phone number,address etc. Haven said
this, in other to avert any form of difficulties or problem with your
transaction,you will be paid via our corresponding bank in London. This is
base on our bilateral relationship with the United Kingdom(UK). You
might be a foreigner in the United State and for this reason no American
Bank would accept an individual transfer to such an amount of money. It
might also interest you to know that since the September 11th attack by
terrorist in America, they have beefed up their security even to banks
and the flow of cash is totally checkmated. The homeland security agent
even in the airport despite your position as a diplomat, You must be
searched. The same situation is applicable here in Nigeria and even in
the United Kingdom.For this reason, your funds will be only and safely
released to you through an organization which is registered by the
government of this country.

Our interaction with the National Drug Law Enforcement/Anti- Terrorist
Commission was real but due to the fact that the homeland securities
even in the banks are not convinced and your transfer was halt. Finally,
we have your funds in our custody and it is safe but will be
transferred via our corresponding bank.

You are advised to call the telephone number below for oral and
important discussion, Should you fail to call or respond as advised then we
shall have no option than to confiscate this funds in agreement with the
law governing this organization. We promise to give you our
professional service that will ensure your quick receive of your funds within
7days.

1. YOUR FULL NAME:........................
2. YOUR FULL ADDRESS:......................
3. YOUR TELEPHONE.........................
4. FAX....................................
5. AGE....................................
6 .SEX:...................................
7. YOUR OCCUPATION........................
8. YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS WHERE YOU WANT YOUR FUND TO TRANSFER INTO:
...........................................
...........................................

Yours Faithfully,

Dr. Ugo B. Emeson.
Head:ICPC

Payback Pity Scam

Surely no one will fall for this stuff twice.

This scam is offering compensation to 50 lucky people who have been scammed in the past. Apparently, according to this spam, the Nigerian officials feel bad about the abuse many of us have had to endure from these horrible scammers.

Ladies and Gentlemen, if you fall for this stuff twice we sure hope you don't tell anyone.

OCEAINC BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.
(OFFICE OF DIRECTOR FOREIGN)
REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT (CBC)
Our Ref: CBC/IRD/CBX/021/08
DR. WILLIAMS UZUMA
Director Foreign Remittance Dept,
Telephone Director line +234 802 365 545
Email: williamsuzuma@yahoo.cn


Dear Sir,

IMMEDIATE COMPENSATION PAYMENT


I wish to inform you of the new decision taking by the Federal
Government of NIGERIA to compensate all Foreigners that have been
Cheated by
Some NIGERIA in the Process of receiving their Inherited Funds,
Contract Funds, Lotto Promo Funds and Next of Kin Funds, the Federal
Government has promised to raise cheque what of ($1.5M USD) for each
Foreigners,


Lucky 50 foreigners will be compensated.
However, I advise you to contact me immediately so you can take part
in this compensation Process Nigeria Government has promised.
You are requested to furnish me with the following information to
Enable this office process your own International Bank Draft raised by
OCEAINC BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.

1) Your full name ............
2) Your full Adderrs ............
3) Your Telephone or Cell phone Number for easy communications .....
4) A copy of your picture ...............
You are advice to contact our secriatry immediately through
Emali Address: drsolomonokeke@yahoo.cn
Telephone Director line +234 805 312 1028
NAME DR. DAVID S. OKEKE

Regards,

DR. WILLIAMS UZUMA
DIRECTOR FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT
OCEAINC BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.

Another Bank Scam full of Mispelled Words

Here's another Bank spam scam. After receiving over 1000 of these they all begin to sound familiar. One of the things that amazes us the most is the consistent spelling and grammatical errors made in most of these emails. You would think someone serious enough to try and scam you out of your hard earned money would at least take the time to use some type of spell checking software. We counted 12 spelling or tense errors and we only did a quick scan of this spam. This is especially perplexing because so many of these scammers proclaim to be Attorney's or Dr.'s.

Another interesting part of these email scams is the part where the "scammer" claims we shouldn't trust anyone else with this opportunity. We assume this paragraph has been added after many of us "fight back" and contact the authorities.

If these people would concentrate their efforts on something useful they would probably be fairly successful based on their ability to find email lists.

Here's one of today's many scams:

HSBC BANK UNITED KINGDOM THE WORLDS LOCAL BANK.
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref:UK/9420X2/68
Batch:074/05/ZY369
28-1-2008


Greetings:Fund Beneficiary:

We apologise if this email causes you any embarrasment or shock. We have
intended this to be an informal approach so that you will know that We
have not contacted you in error or through spam.

We hereby confirmed receipt of part payment of US$25,000,000.00 dollars
only, into our official ESCROW account with the Central Bank Of Nigeria,
by order of the Central Newly Introduced 2008 Settlement Of Debt Scheme
(SDS) incharge of Foreign Debt Recovery Committee on Overdue Contract
/Next of Kin payments in Africa, as indicated in our database.

This programme was introduced to all bank in Africa such as the Central
Bank Of Nigeria, for payment and settlement of Foriegn Debt,as the African
Nation, has suffered a lot of loss becuase of debts owed
internationally,the 2008 budget has the payment order and you are approved
and schedulded for payment immediately, forthwith and unconditionally,your
funds will be deliverd to you through diplomatic courier services like a
consignment. to your door step.

Meanwhile forward the below infromation immediately, so that as soon as
the diplomatic arrive in your country they will call you immediately to
notify you.

Kindly provide us with the below information by
Email/hsbcbank_hsbc_code1@yahoo.ca /to reconfirm your details in our
database for immediate release of your fund to your destinated home
address.

Beneficiary Full Name:...............

Address:.........................................

Tel:.............................................
Fax:.........................................

Age/sex:.........................................

Occupation:......................................

A copy of your working ID:...........

We sincerely apologize for the delays and advice you to STOP any further
communication with your associate in any of the African countries for they
contributed 100% hindrances to the release of your funds.

Our finalfund release order will be forwarded to our operational paying
bank, the HSBC Bank in London, UK for immediate transfer of your
allocation into your designated account upon receipt and official
re-confirmation of your information in our database.

Note: We are to pay through our diplomatic services.

Your full co-operation is fully required , as this might be the only
available payment order for the year.

Note: Fund will be retrieved to treasury after ten (10) working days of
this notice.

Yours in service,

Dr Chris Anderson
Manager, foreign Operations Dpt.
HSBC Bank, Liverpool, London
United Kingdom.
Telephone: + 44-704-573-8078
Fax : + 44-845-2801-195
hsbcbank_hsbc_code1@yahoo.ca