Has someone offered you a huge sum of money or a valuable consignment? It's a 419 or advance fee fraud - find out how they work, and what to do to be safe.
#8073 by Ralph Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:27 am
Yes another email forwarded to me is below,

There are several indicators of a scam and to our regular visitors and contributors I am sure you will spot them
First up, a search on the email address Click Here
Then there is the unmistakable African writing style
The fact it is not addressed to a particular person
Add to that a search result on "I HAVE REGISTERED YOUR CONSIGNMENT WITH FEDEX." Click Here and we have pretty convincing proof that it is a scammer in the first few lines.

Delete and forget is by far your best course of action :wink:

If you have been contacted by this person or indeed somebody else with a similiar email and still have concerns, please post or contact one of our support team and we can show you more proof that it is a scam


From: Mr Paul Smith <[email protected]>
Sent:
Subject: I HAVE REGISTERED YOUR CONSIGNMENT WITH FEDEX.

I HAVE REGISTERED YOUR CONSIGNMENT WITH FEDEX.


Goodday!!!

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank
Draft of $850,000 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 the date of expire and Dr.Wilson the Director Bank
of Africa told me that before the draft will get to your hand that it will
expire.

So I told him to cash the $850,000 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
ending of April 2009.

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 because of the
expiring date. For your information, I have paid for the delivering Charge,
Insurance premium.

The only money you will send to the FEDEX COURIER SERVICES to deliver your
Consignment direct to your postal Address in your country is ($90.00 US) ninety 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 $90.00 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 demurrage. You have to contact FEDEX COURIER

SERVICES now for the delivery of your Draft with this information bellow;

Directors Name: Scott WIlliams
Companys Name:FEDEX COURIER SERVICES
Email Address: ([email protected])

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 and ask them how you will make the security fee
of $90 usd to them to avoid any further delay and remember to pay them their
Security Keeping fee of $90.00 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 Africa cloths. They did not know the contents
was money. this is to avoid them delaying with the BOX. Don?t let them
know that box contents is money ok.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr Paul Smith
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