I left Your Money at The Courier Service"
or "Security Company" Scam
SHALOM COURIER SERVICE COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC
"Barr David Johnson", "Dr.PAUL ERI"
"shalomcourier_companyplc001@yahoo.dk"
If you receive an email from Barr David Johnson claiming they hadn't heard from you, or owed you money, and left it at "SHALOM COURIER SERVICE COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC", and now you need to contact Dr.PAUL ERI at ERI@SHALOMCOURIERSERVICE.com (mailto:ERI@SHALOMCOURIERSERVICE.com)" ?
Here are some other clues to the scam:
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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. Note the bizarre, almost random capitalization. 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.
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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?
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"SHALOM COURIER SERVICE COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC" - Have you ever heard of SHALOM COURIER SERVICE COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC? 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!):
The recipient told us: "
(SAMANEGO & COUNSELORS AT LAW)
06 BP 1409 AKPAKPA DODOMEY
COTONOU REPUBLIC OF BENIN.
Dear Friend,
I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your Bank Draft $950,000.00 but did not heard from you since that time.Then I went and deposited the Draft with SHALOM COURIER SERVICE COMPANY here in Benin Republic,
because I travelled to Iraq to see my boss and will not come back till next month end.I want You to contact the SHALOM COURIER SERVICE COMPANY to know when they will deliver your package. I have paid for the delivering charges and insurance fee.The only money you have to send to them is there security keeping fee which is $95.00 Us Dollars to received your package.
This is their Contact Address,Contact Dr.PAUL ERI Director SHALOM COURIER SERVICE COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC.
E-mail:(http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/c ... ohnson.php (http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/courierscam_DavidJohnson.php)