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zeke0606 · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 5:48 am Post subject: latest scam

Hi everyone,
I found this, what seems to be the latest scam, in my in-box this morning.
Let us hope that no one answers this one!

Zeke

From FedEx Express Service

FedEx England Head Office
Unit 1 Gateway Industrial Estate,
Birmingham Cargo Airport,
Coventry Road, Elmdon
B26 3QD, England.

Attention:

COURIER NOTIFICATION

This is to notify you that your parcel is still in our possession, the security scan result showed that the parcel contains an International Cashier Bank Draft/Check worth the sum of $2 Million dollars only and it is ready for delivery to your door step. Before the delivery or shipment will take place, you are advised to send to us the following data mentioned below:

1.Your Name
2.Address
3.Telephone

The above requested information will enable us deliver your parcel correctly without any mistake or delivering your parcel to a wrong person. Furthermore, you might be asking yourself how come about this email or check . Your check was brought to this office by the Lottery Fiduciary Agent/ Claim Agent, signifying that you are a rightful winner to their Lottery Award selected randomly from some lucky email addresses which your email address is one of the lucky email addresses.

FedEx courier service company is mailing you as per your parcel that was brought to this company to be delivered to you by the lottery group, along the delivery process that brought a misunderstanding between you and the lottery claim agent and in regards of their request as per their insurance certificate cost and tax fee which happened to be the cause of your parcel being pending here.

Meanwhile we are hereby happy to inform you that the FedEx Company has finalized everything with the AIG Insurance Group and the internal revenue office as the company has also listed 24 valuable parcels to be intact in their office after the release of the parcels from the AIG Insurance Group and internal revenue office.

We are happy to inform you once again that your parcel is among the 24 parcels listed which is now in our office, despite that we lost your private residential address, which is an indication that you can now re-send your residential address and telephone numbers as stated in this email back to us where your parcel can be delivered to you without hesitation with this e-mail: {[email protected]}

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

SueH · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 1022 Location: Northern Italy

I don't know. You could always contact them to offer English writing classes.

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

zeke,
That's two for two. Your posts may be in the General Discussion forum, but as the subheading says, this is "A general discussion on teaching around the globe."
Why post here if it's not related to teaching?

zeke0606 · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 1:17 pm Post subject:

It is easy to understand Glenski.

After 23 tears of teaching English around the world, I have found teachers to be a bit gullible and far to trusting. So as a 'public service' I try to warn these unsuspecting souls from giving all their money to scam artists.

To satisfy you - I'll post no more of these and let the chips fall where they may - OK?

Zeke

johnslat · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject:

Dear zeke0606,
Unfortunately, the number of such scams is fast approaching (and should soon surpass) the number of stars in the known universe.
So, if warnings were to be posted for ALL of them on Dave's, well, a lot more bandwidth would be necessary.
There are a much smaller percentage of them that are specifically EFL scams, and those should, I'd say, find a home here. Many have already done so, and a lot of them are to be found in the UAE board (see many of keifer's posts.)
By the way, in my 30+ years of teaching (25 of that in ESL/EFL), I haven't noticed a statistically significant difference in the number of "far too trusting" and "a bit gullible" teachers as compared to the general population. In fact, in my experience, EFL teachers in particular seem to be unusually skeptical (perhaps due to many "unpleasant" job experiences.)
Regards,
John

zeke0606 · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject: What?

Thank you johnslat.

Llamalicious · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject:

johnslat · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 2:23 am Post subject: Noobs

Dear Llamalicious,
Much as I hate to admit it, my Llaman is a little rusty. Would you mind translating your last?
Thanks,
John
P.S. Hazarding a guess, would it be short for (the already shortened) "Newbies?"

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

I keep on winning the lottery. But seriously, does anyone think that these types of emails are real?

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

Supply and demand???
seems there is a need for more scammers to meet the demands of the increasing numbers of 'gullible' victims in this world.

I sometime recieve upwards to three a day of these rediculous, stupid scams ....I mean come on!

What are the odds of winning a fictious lottery you never entered, or recieving an inheritance from some fictious person you never met Razz

The problem is gullible people can not distinguish between common sense reality from wishful dreams!

"Too good to be true" should be their mantra!

jwbhomer · Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 876 Location: CANADA

I like the ones from the poor orphan girls who are huddling in refugee camps in west Africa, yet have millions of dollars (or pounds or euros) waiting in a bank account. All they need is someone to help them access the money. I get a couple of those every week. ROTFL.

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject:

Llamalicious · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject: Re: Noobs

Saiops · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Beijing,