FRAUD EMAIL ALERT!

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I just received a fraudulent email claiming to be from FedEx.

Here is the text of the email. DO NOT CALL THESE NUMBERS OR CONTACT THESE PEOPLE, because I believe they are not safe. I'm on hold with Fed Ex right now to report this.

FedEx Courier®
DELIVERY OPERATIONS DEPT,
Monomarks House, 27 Old Gloucester Street,
London WC1N 3AX United Kingdom.
:+4470359106267(united Kingdom Office)
:+2348072484251(West Africa Office)

HELLO

This is to inform you that your Email ID has qualified for the FedEx Courier
season promo.

The management have ordered our paying bank to load your winning funds of
$750,000.00 into an ATM CARD,due to confidentiality more details are not
given in this email. Contact us back with your Legal Name,Address,
Phone Numbers,Age & Sex for the
claim of your ATM CARD.

You are required to send your personal details to only Donald Williams at
(fcourierexpress121@gmail.com)

SECURITY INFO: You are advised to keep your winning notification, personal,so
that no one will claim it on your behalf.

Important Notice: In other to speeden up your claim process, please feel
free to call any of the numbers above for quicker processing of your funds
release.

If you receive this email, do not reply or contact the senders. Fed Ex does not request personal information via phone or internet. If you receive this forward it to abuse@fedex.com.

Comments

[kittyb90.livejournal.com]

Perhaps their use of the word "speeden" tipped you off? ;-) I always love the emails promising me money that have various words misspelled and used incorrectly.

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

FedEx is the new Nigerian prince? Who knew?

[manonlechat.livejournal.com]

ARGHHH. I freakin' HATE fraudsters. A well known writer that I know in RL just had her Yahoo account hacked---the hacker, who was FAR cleverer than the average, then sent out an email (purportedly from the person) that she had had to make an emergency trip to Africa, had been arrested, and was begging her friends to wire her funds immediately so that she wouldn't spend the night in an African jail. The story of course was completely fishy, but the fraudster actually took pains to make it sound like the writer in question. Vy. insidious.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'm LOLing at your icon.

[irrel.livejournal.com]

I just can't believe people would actually fall for this! Thanks for the heads-up.