Thursday, May 20, 2010

Strange email from FedEx customer support. Is this spam?

Dear Customer!





We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmable


Package that is


registered with us for shipping to your residential location. We had


thought


that your sender gave you our contact details.





It may interest you to know that a letter is also added to your


package.


However, we cannot quote it's content to you via email for privacy


reasons.


We understand that the content of your package itself is a Bank Draft


worth of





$800,000.00 USD. As you know, FedEx do not ship money in CASH or in


CHEQUES but


Bank Drafts are shippable.





The package is registered with us for mailing by your colleague as


claimed, and


your colleague explained that he is from the United States but he is


here in


Nigeria for a three (3) months Surveying Project as he works with a


construction firm in the Nigeria West Africa We are sending you this


email


because your package is been registered on a Special Order.





What you have to do now, is to contact our Dilivery Department for


immediate


dispatchment of your package to your residencial address. Note that as


soon as


our Delivery Team confirms your informations, it will take only one


working day


(24 hours)for your package to arrive it designated destination.





For your information, the VAT %26amp; Shipping charges as well as Insurance


fees have


been paid by your colleague before your package was registered.





Note that the payment that is made on the Insurance, Premium %26amp;


Clearance


Certificates, are to certify that the Bank Draft is not a Drug


Affiliated Fund


(DAF) neither is it funds to sponsor Terrorism in your country. 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 £100 which is equivalent to


$200 USD to


the FedEx Delivery Department being full payment for the Security


Keeping Fee


of the FedEx company as stated in our privacy terms %26amp; condition page.





Also be informed that your colleague wished to pay for the Security


Keeping


charges, but we do not accept such payment considering the facts that


all items


%26amp; packages that is registered with us have a time limitation and we


cannot


accept payment having known not when you will be picking up the


package or even


responding to us.





So we cannot take the risk to have accepted such payment incase of any





possible


demurrage. Kindly note that your colleague did not leave us with any


further


information.





We hope that you respond 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 do not have a


return


address.





Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx Delivery Post) with the


details


given below:





Contact Person: Mr Bright Johnson.


Email: fedexdelivery4africa1@live.com


Tel: + 234-807036593608





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:





Kindly complete the above form and summit it to the delivery manager


on:


fedexdelivery4africa1@live.com





As soon as your details are received, our delivery team will give you


the


neccessary payment procedure so that you can effect the payment for the


Security Keeping Fees.





As soon as they confirm your payment receipt of £100 GBP which is


equivalent to


$200 USD, they will not hesitate to dispatch your package as well as


the


attahced letter to your residence. It usually takes 24 hours being an


over


night delivery service.





Note that we were not instructed to email you, but due 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 England and he


hasn't fix


any phone yet. We indeed 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. Do not reply this email because this email account is


not


monitored. Send your details to: fedexdelivery4africa1@live.com





Yours Faithfully,


Mrs. Margaret Blaire.


FedEx Online Team Management.


All rights reserved. © 1995-2008 FedEx.


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This e-mail is only for the above addressees. It may contain


confidential or


privileged information. If you are not an addressee you must not copy,


distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it or any


attachments.


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Strange email from FedEx customer support. Is this spam?
If you have to ask.. then more than likely, it is!!


This email is actually quite popular now, everyone seems to be getting it. Why would you have to pay to get a FedEx package?
Reply:From FedEx's website:


FedEx does not request via unsolicited mail or e-mail payment or personal information in return for goods in transit or in FedEx custody.


Report fraud:


* Send an e-mail to abuse@fedex.com.


* Contact FedEx Customer Service at 1.800.GoFedEx 1.800.463.3339. Report Abuse

Reply:Definately spam - do not respond and forward it to FedEx security. Your local branch office should have all the necessary contact information.
Reply:It's a scam. Mostly because of the incorrect grammer. FedEx is professional.
Reply:This is obviously a scam.
Reply:It's a scam. A variation on the "lost bank account" scam.





Fedex wouldn't send you an email for delivery - they'd leave a door knocker.





And they wouldn't know the contents of the package.
Reply:well if you think it's true, contact me afterwards because I have some things I'd like to sell you... they are worth a lot of money but I want to get rid of them so I will sell them to you really cheap!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply:This is spam and FEDEX would never engage monetary trasactions for any reason. The only time FEDEX would respond to you is if you requested information on a package you sent out for.


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