Must be my lucky day!...

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Just received this in my email box…

**CONFIRM OWNERSHIP (PARCEL)
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 note that
a letterer is also added to your package. However, we can not quote its content
to you via email for Privacy reasons we understand that the content of your
package itself is a Bank Draft which worth over $500,000.00.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, and
your colleague Mr.Jamers Smith explained that he is from the United States but
he is here in Nigeria for three (3) months Surveying Project as he works with a
construction firm in the Nigeria West Africa region, 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 Delivery Department for immediate dispatch of your
package to your residential address.Note that as soon as our Delivery Team
confirms your information’s will take only one working day (24 hours) for
yourpackage to arrive its designated address.For your information, the VAT &
Shipping charges as well as Insurance fees have been paid by your colleague
Mr.James Smith before your package was registered. Note that the payment that
is made on the Insurance,Premium & Clearance Certificates, you are to certify
that the Bank Draft is not a Drug AffiliatedFund (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. How ever, you will have to pay a sum of $291.00 USD to the FedEx
Delivery Department being full payment for the Security Keeping Fee of the
FedEx Company as stated in our privacy terms & condition page. Also be informed
that your colleague Mr.James Smith wished to pay for the Security Keeping
charges, but we do not accept such payment considering the facts that all items
& packages that is registered with us having a time limitation and we cannot
accept payment having known not when you will be picking up the package or even
responding to us.Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx Delivery Office)
with the details given below: FedEx Delivery Office Contact Person:

Mr. Kelvin Green
Tel: +234-8079193227
Email:[email protected]
Kindly complete the below form and send it to the email address given above.
FULL NAMES:…
TELEPHONE:…
POSTAL ADDRESS:…
CITY:…
STATE:…
COUNTRY:…

Kindly complete the above form and summit it to the delivery manager
on:[email protected]
As soon as your details are received, our delivery team will give you the
necessary payment procedure so that you can effect the payment for the Security
Keeping Fees.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs Victoria Wallison
FedEx Online Team Management **

Money is in the post then! :w00t:

Why are we still getting spam from these idiots? You would think that they would have gotten bored of being laughed at by now! :stuck_out_tongue:
Sadly, there must be people out there stupid (read greedy) enough to fall for the old “Hi, I’m some random stranger who would like to give you huge amounts of money!” scam… :blink:

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have you not told them yet that all your bank accounts are full up, just be honest with them.

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I certainly wouldn’t be in this country if that was true! :stuck_out_tongue:

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yeah yeah, keep talking bo–ox

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I’ve had a lucky day too.

Just won £100,000 on a Spanish lottery I haven’t entered - just sending off £2,500 release fee before they realise their error.

Ian

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Couple of weeks back there was an old man in Scotland that fell for this sort of scam, cost him his house… he was quite elderly, so i dont think he understood what was being asked of him… read it on the bbc website so its gotta be real :stuck_out_tongue:

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I too have been very lucky this week:

I am Cheng Wang, a legal practitioner. A deceased client of mine, that shares the same last name as yours, died as a result of a heart-related condition on January 12th 2005. His heart condition was due to the death of all the members of his family in the tsunami disaster on the 26th December 2004 in Sumatra Indonesia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

I am contacting you to seek your consent to present you as the beneficiary to my late client. He has a deposit of (US$19,000,000).

This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you against any legal ramification. If this business proposition offends your moral values, do accept my apology.

I can be reached on: [email protected]

Best regards,

Barrister Cheng Wang.

This communication, links contained herein, is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain information that is confidential or legally protected.

A barrister on a gmail address! They’re gonna have to try harder than that!

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Really was my lucky day a while back

Had this bloke want to buy my car for more than I’m asking - he believes my description without seeing the car - very trusting.

He’s sent me a cheque, have banked, now all I need to do is send £2,000 by wire to his agent who’ll pick up the car (the cheque covers the £2,000 plus an extra £500 for my trouble!)…

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But . . . but . . . Cheng said he was only going to deal with me!? :slight_smile:

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All the major UK banks seem to have fallen for this bullsh*t, so there’s still hope for these guys with Joe Soap public.