Attention!!!

Recently received this in my email inbox and there's somethin' fishy about this.

Check it out....

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Tittle: Attn
From: FedEx Online Management Team <int@fedex.com>
To: <my email, of course!>



Dear Customer,

We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Package that is been
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 its 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
Eight Hundred Thousand US Dollars). As you know, FedEx does 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) month Survey Project as he works with a
construction firm in 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 Delivery Department for immediate dispatch of
your package to your residential address. Note that as soon as our
Delivery Team confirms your information, it will take three (3) working
days (72Hrs) for your package to arrive its designated destination.

For your information, the VAT & 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 & 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 GBP 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 & 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 fact that all items & packages that is registered with us
have a time limitation and we cannot accept payment without knowing when
you will be picking up the package or even respond to us.. So we cannot
take the risk to have accepted such a 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: <removed>
Email: <removed>
Tel: <removed>

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:

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. As soon as they confirm your payment of £100 GBP
which is equivalent to $200 USD, they shall immediately dispatch your
package to the designated address. It usually takes 72 Hours being an
express 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 Engla nd and he was not on 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 and ensure to fill the above
form as well to enable successful reconfirmation.

All responses must be forwarded to: <email removed>

Yours Faithfully,
<removed>
FedEx Online Management Team

So, what you guys think?? Should I send my information??
I even don't know the sender....I mean the colleague(my friend :f6: ??) mentioned in the mail.
Might be scam or somethin'.

I'd call first to see if this e-mail is legitimate (didn't read the whole thing).

Nigeria:
The only word in there you need to pay attention to. A vast majority of these scam emails originate from Nigeria and other african nations with lax internet laws.

And yeah, unless someone told you they were going to send you $800,000.00 , always consider it a scam.

Definitely a scam, I get plenty of these types of emails.

Just think about it for a second. Do you really think a compagny would send you an email with such an offer of a mighty 800,000.00 dalla? If they were serious, they'd send an official LETTER to your house.

Emails asking for your personal info are always fishy.

Also, it's a better idea NOT to call if you're not sure. Several of these have pay-to-call phone numbers that charge astronomical rates, both for connecting and on a per-minute basis.

It's obviously a scam but if you're not sure, contact your LOCAL fedex and inquire about it. It's all computerized so they'd be able to look it up for you. Of course, it looks like you weren't given any details regarding the actual package (ie. tracking number, etc.) so that's another big red flag...

Also, as a general rule, bad grammar/lots of typos is another good sign, such as the needless capitalizing of CHEQUES and in this part:

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 Engla nd and he was not on phone yet.

Finally, it seems as if they're always relying on the same structure, probably because a lack of familiarity with the english language. Feels like whoever wrote that is really fond of the "Note that (insert whatever here)".

Rule of thumb with FedEx should always be, if you don't know the sender, nor are expecting a package, don't give out your info. If you really had a package waiting, your local FedEx would have it, and they would have left you a card, not an email.

"We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Package that is been
registered with us for shipping to your residential location."

Edited:

We have been waiting for you to contact us for your package that has been regeistered with us. We need your information to ship it to your residential location.


Even then, it could be reworded better. Most companies would NOT make a simple mistake of "that is been". They would have drafts proof-readed over and over. I see other mistakes in there as well, and going by Nexon standards, there's too many. :X

Thanks guys, for the replies....

And yeah, unless someone told you they were going to send you $800,000.00 , always consider it a scam.

Yeah, who wants to "throw away" their 800k to me anyway...

Definitely a scam, I get plenty of these types of emails.

Me either, but never get this type of mail offering 800k, lol.

Just think about it for a second. Do you really think a compagny would send you an email with such an offer of a mighty 800,000.00 dalla? If they were serious, they'd send an official LETTER to your house.

Emails asking for your personal info are always fishy.

Yeah, totally....I notified about some mistakes in this emails...

Even then, it could be reworded better. Most companies would NOT make a simple mistake of "that is been". They would have drafts proof-readed over and over. I see other mistakes in there as well, and going by Nexon standards, there's too many. :X

Most companies (don't know about Asiasoft, lol) wouldn't make this damn simple mistake anyway.... probably this scammer totally idiot.