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Received this email today (not spam).  Do you think anyone really falls for it?
<tt><tt>Dear,

How are you today? I am writing to inform you that I have Paid the delivering
fee for your Check Draft because due to your delay, I went to the bank to
confirm if the Check has expired or getting near to expire and Dr.Amez Kento
Victor the Director of International Bank told me that before the check will get
to your hand that it will expire.
So I told him to cash the $3,000,000.00 UNITED STATES DOLLARS to cash payment to
avoid losing this funds. However, all the necessary arrangement of delivering
the $3,000,000.00 UNITED STATES DOLLARS in cash was made with FEDEX EXPRESS
COURIER COMPANY here in Cotonou Benin Republic, Dr. Amez Kento the Director of
International Bank of Cotonou have to package the sum of $3,000,000.00 in cash
for me. Then he also agreed to help me to Register the Consignment with FEDEX
EXPRESS COURIER COMPANY.
Infact I thank God very much for all the movement I made, every thing goes
normally.
As for our agreement with the FEDEX EXPRESS COURIER COMPANY, they promised that
your consignment will leave this Country immediately they receive your contact
details to enable them meet up with you immediately the Diplomat Agent arrives
to your Country.

Please write a letter of application to the given address below.
Attn: Mr. Musa O. Ibrahim



Please, Send them your contacts information to enable them locate you
immediately they arrive in your country with your box.
This is what they need from you.
1.YOUR FULL NAME
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS.
3.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE.
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE OR DRIVER LICENCE.
Please make sure you send this needed info to the Director general of FEDEX
EXPRESS COURIER COMPANY with the address given to you.
Note.The FEDEX EXPRESS COURIER COMPANY don't know the contents of the as i
registered it as a box of an Africa clothes. They don't know it contains money.
This is to avoid delaying with the box. don't let them know that it is money
that is inside the box.
I am waiting for your urgent response.
Thanks and Remain Blessed.

Secretary John Leo.



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Just discussing this earlier with my dear wife. We get approx 200 such messages (Incl Paypal, Facebook, Bank accounts, another African general in another plane crash, Inoperable cancer with squillions to give away.... etc. ) The sheer number suggests fraud. However I suppose they have to hope they get a bite early from someone naive or ill. It breaks my heart everytime I read the stories of the elderly being taken in.
Garage Joe
ReferenceEl Loro Today at 18:58:
I would hope no-one would be silly enough to fall for this, but I wouldn't count on it.
Sadly, people fall for this all the time, and you may be surprised at the sort of people who get scammed - they're not all, shall we say, "vulnerable" by any means. This, and the better-known "419" scams  are essentially variations of "The Spanish Prisoner", which has been successfully conning people for centuries.


The thing about e-mail scams is that you can target many thousands of people for negligible cost. You only need a handful of hits to do very well out of it.
Eugene's Lair

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