Thursday, April 23, 2009

be careful to respond to spam messages

Today I got the email, which I quite scandalize.

Glance, that tantalize. Moreover, when we see the amount of money that have value
But, once we know that this is false we are certainly disappointed once. Therefore, careful when you get email like that. Do not give direct response to the boomerang.

Here are snippets email:

CONFIRM OWNERSHIP (PARCEL)

Good Day!!!

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 so that you can quickly
come and pick it up without informing you. we cannot quote its content to you
via email for Privacy reasons we understand that the content of your package
itself is parcel contained an International Cashier Bank Draft/Cheque worth
the sum of $1,200,000 USD which will be deliver to at the moment as long as
you provide all the requirement to the FedEx package company before the
parcel can be shipped to your own residential address in your country.
Furthermore, you might be asking yourself how comes this email,cheque or
draft, Anyway, your cheque was brought to this office by a Lottery Fiduciary
Agent Or Claim Agent, signifying that you are a rightful winner to their
Lottery Award selected randomly from 10 lucky email addresses which your
email address is one of the lucky email address. What you have to do now, is
to contact our Delivery Department for immediate dispatch to your residential
address.

For your information, the VAT & Shipping charges as well as Insurance fees
have been paid by the Lottery Fiduciary company and the icon insurance
company of Nigeria has finalized everything before your package was
registered.the payment that was made on the Insurance,Premium & Clearance
Certificates was 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 to avoid any form of query from the Monetary Authority of your country
and you must compensate the fedex express package company by paying the
security fee which they used in protecting your fund.you will have to pay a
sum of $520.00 USD to the FedEx Delivery Department being full payment for
the Security Keeping Fee of the FedEx Company as stated in our privacy terms
& conditionpage. Also be informed that the Lottery Fiduciary company wished
you 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. So we cannot take the risk to have accepted such
payment incase of any possible demurrage.

Note: The Money can not be deducted from the parcel because the Lottery
Fiduciary Company (L.F.C) advise us that you must pay for the security
keeping fees before we can deliver the parcel to you.the Lottery board did
not leave us with any further information because we hope that you we respond
to us as soon as possible because if you fail to respond until the expiry
date of this 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:

FedEx Delivery Post Contact Person: Mr. Fredrick Gardner
Tel: +2347056315760
Email: {fedexexpresspackagecompany@yahoo.com.hk}

This is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone numbers.

=====================================
FUNDS RELEASED AND VERIFICATION FORM
=====================================
FULL NAMES:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
COUNTRY:
SEX (M/F):
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
NEXT OF KINS:
========================================

Kindly complete the above form and summit it to the delivery manager on:
fedexexpresspackagecompany@yahoo.com.hk

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 $520.00 USD,
they will not hesitate to dispatch your package as well as the attached
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 through the letter that was attach in
your package, We indeed personally sealed your Bank Draft we found your email
contact in the attached letter as the recipient of the foremost package and
we where very glad that will found the owner of the package. Ensure to
contact the delivery department with the email address given above and ensure
to fill the form as well to enable a successful reconfirmation.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Victoria Williston
FedEx Online Team Management



How do you think, surely this is Spam. Why the case of the false email is still done by people who are not responsible?

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