Venditoris: Beware of Scams

My not so dear, not a friend, MR WILLIAN PETER, whom I have never corresponded with nor know, wants me to send UNITED STATED PARCELCOURIER COMPANY a delivering Charge, Insurance premium, Clearance Certificate Fee and Security Keeping fee of $125.00 US Dollars with the admonition of “don’t be deceived by anybody to pay any other money”.

I’ll prefer not to be deceived by him and his YANL. Hope you do, too.

To:
Subject: NOW CONTACT UPS FOR YOUR PACKAGE
From: “MR WILLIAN PETER”
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008

Dear Friend, Greetings!

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable
Bank Draft worth of (usd $2.500.000.00)TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED DOLLARS which my boss left with me before he travelled out,but I

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Didn’t because I do not know when that was. My holly trees are now across the street and nearly 50 feet tall.

All kidding aside, Mr James William (JAMES WILLIAM) makes a very poor case for getting $150 US DOLLARS out of me or anyone else.

I do not know who he is, what the heck he is talking about or why I should ever expect him to send me $800.000.00 UNITED Dollars under any circumstances.

Neither do I think I will email FEDEX DELIVER SHIPPING OFFICE at (ffedexdelivercompany@excite.fr), simply because they are trying to get money by scamming the great unknown “Dear Friend” once again. That’s not me!

It’s just Yet Another Nigerian Letter (YANL).

Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:54:20 +0100
From: “JAMES WILLIAM”
Subject: CONTACT FEDEX DELIVER SHIPPING OFFICE NOW

Atten:Dear Friend,

Hope you enjoyed your easter holly days well with your family, I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft worth of (usd $800.000.00) EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED DOLLARS which my boss left with me before he travelled out,but I did not hear from you since that time. Then with the help of a friend who is a bank manager I cashed the money and deposited it as a BOX containing antique with FEDEX DELIVER SHIPPING COURIER, Cotonou, Benin Republic.

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And the beat goes on and on and on and….

Here’s yet another wrinkle on the Nigerian Letter scam:

Subject:You Have A Package: Contact FedEx

Date:Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:14:21 -0400

From:”Orlosky, Sean M”

To:

Greetings!

I am Mr. Orlosky Sean. I have been waiting for you since to contact me
for your Confirmable Bank Draft of $800.000.00 United States Dollars,
but I did not hear from you since that time. Then I went and deposited
the Draft with FedEx Delivery, West Africa, I traveled out of the
country for a 3 Months Course and I will not come back till end of May.
What you have to do now is to contact the FedEx Delivery as soon
as possible to know when they will deliver your package to you because of the
expiring date.For your information, I have paid for the delivery
charges,Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the Check showing
that it is not drug money or meant to sponsor terrorist attack in your
Country.

The only money you will send to the FedEx Delivery to deliver your
Draft direct to your residential address in your country is ($185.00 USD)
only being Security Keeping Fee of the Delivery Company so far. I would
have paid that but they said no because they don’t know when you will
contact them and in case of demourage but now I am on a course in which
they will not be able to contact me for the payment. You have to
contact the FedEx Delivery now for the delivery of your Draft with this
information below;

Contact Person: Mr.Roberts Brown

E-mail;fedex.deliveries@yahoo.com

Telephone: +nnn nnnnnnn

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your residential address and
direct telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake with the
Delivery to enable you know when it will get to your address.Let me repeat
again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any
further delay and remember to pay them their security keeping fee of
$185.00 US Dollars for their immediate action.Note that it is when you
must have paid this $185 for the security fee that the package will be
released and the tracking number would be given to you.