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"I left Your Money at The Courier Service"
or "Security Company" Scam
fedex courier company
"Mr.Daniel Cole", "Daniel Cole"
"fedexcourier_unit1@hotmail.com"

If you receive an email from Mr.Daniel Cole claiming they hadn't heard from you, or owed you money, and left it at "fedex courier company", and now you need to contact Daniel Cole at fedexcourier_unit1@hotmail.com to recover the money; well, by now you should immediately recognize it as a scam.  Why would someone you don't know owe you a huge sum of money, and leave it at a "courier" or a "security company or "fedex courier company" and tell you to contact Daniel Cole in order to retrieve?  It simply makes no sense.  You should immediately dismiss it as a scam. This scammer is particularly lazy, putting little effort into even making the scam believable - with only 2 sentences and several pathetic misspellings.

However, if you really have a desire to be a victim, and are saying to yourself "but, but, but... what if I just forgot that I'm owed a huge sum of money, or maybe they got me by mistake and will still send me the money".  Well, first, we'll tell you that's just pathetic.

Next ask yourself why Daniel Cole, who presumably works at "fedex courier company" is having you write to him at "fedexcourier_unit1@hotmail.com". Shouldn't he have a real company address like "DanielCole@fedex.com" ?

Here are some other clues to the scam:

  • Pigeon English - Notice that as the scammer gets past the initial template email and must write free-form, how his grammar, spelling and basic sentence structure go straight in the toilet.  The scammers don't even know how to use spell checkers.  After all, this is a stupid, low-life criminal in the heart of Africa, who probably dropped out of school at age 5 to join a gang or militia. Obviously, real businesses proofread their emails; they look and read more professional.

  • Using free email account: The scammer is writing to you from a FREE email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, AIM, Gmail, etc.).  Don't you think a real organization would use its own email, its own domain and website?

  • "fedex courier company" - Have you ever heard of fedex courier company? That's not the name of the REAL Federal Express. What is it's website?  Why wasn't that in the email?


Actual scam reply email (One example - the scammers constantly change names, dates and addresses!):

Subject: YOU HAVE A PACKAGE!!..contact.. fedexcourier_unit1@hotmail.com 

Greetings!!! You have a bank draff of $78,000.00 USD,contact the fedex courier company for claims with your informations. Contact person Mr.Daniel Cole  Tel;2347036370116 Email: fedexcourier_unit1@hotmail.com


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