I received the following:

Hello Dear,

I have Paid the fee for your Cheque Draft. but the manager of Eco BankBenin Republic told me that before the check will get to you that it will expire.So I told him to cash your $900,000.00 and he did so and the money was parkeged into security box now we have make all
necessary arrangement on how the box will be deliver to you atyour home the arrangement was made with FEDEX EXPRESS COMPANY.

They will need your delivering address to deliver the box to you at your home, like i told you kindly contact the director general of Fedex and send to him your information as listed it below so that the box can be deliver to you with out any problem.

The director
DR. CHARLES SOLOMON
EMAIL: drcharlessolomon01 [at] gmail [dot] com

Please, Send them your contacts information to able them locate you immediately they arrived 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

Please make sure you send this needed info's to the Director general of FEDEX EXPRESS COMPANY DR CHARLES SOLOMON with the address given to you.For your information's,

the only fee you will send to them is their security and official keeping fee of $255.00. All other fee has been paid by me.

Note The FEDEX EXPRESS COMPANY don't know the contents of the Box. I registered it as a Box of an Africa cloths. They don't know that it contents money, this is to avoid them delaying with the Box. don't let them know that money is in the Box.

I am waiting for your urgent response.

Thanks and Remain Blessed.

Mr Blessed Samuel
blessed_s [at] ymail [dot] com

Dear Beneficiary,

Good day. I am writing to inform you that I have cashed your International Bank Draft which has been with me for a long time. I went to the Diamond bank where my director issued your bank draft from to confirm if your draft will still be valid or getting near to expired. Donald Geronime of Diamond Bank confirmed that it remain four days to expire. So I pleased him to help me cash your draft to cash money to avoid losing of your draft under expiration.

However, am happy that all the necessary things has been completed in your favour because Dr. Donald Geronime of Diamond Bank Benin agreed and sealed your $800,000.00 cash money in one box and helped me registered your box money with Ups branch office Benin here and told me to inform you about the successful arrangement.

I really thank God so much for his mercy, as everything went accordingly. As for our agreement with Ups Company here, they accepted the delivery of your sealed box and ready to send direct to your address, but Dr. Hamdi Osman Managing Director also incharge of every foreign shipment in Ups company here said that they will need a confirmation of your current address and direct telephone to help them meet up with their shipping schedule and avoid wrong address on delivery.

Note that Ups Courier Service did not know the contents of the Box. We registered the box as family treasure. They don't know it contents money for security reason, to avoid delaying the box for shipment. Don't allow them to know that the box contains money.Therefore, Immediate send them your current information on the bellow contact details as soon as you receive this message for immediate shipping of your sealed box.

Contact Person: Dr. Hamdi Osman(M.D)
Email: ups_office [at] ubbi [dot] com

Don't forget to reconfirm your current information as Dr. Hamdi Osman requested and ask them to give you a tracking number for you to track your box on movement and know when it will be deliver to your address. Please don't forget my effort in this matter when you receive your box fund and do let me know immediately you receive the box to enjoy with you after all this stress.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Williams Tudor
Business Marchandise

I recieved a similar e-mail today. They wanted me to provide all my personal information and respond immedieatly. I researched the Fedex and found it to be fake. I also did a reverse lookup of the phone number they provided and it too was a phony. The e-mail I was to respond to was also from a hotmail account. The only advice that I have for anyone is to please research all you can. If you are the least bit questionable to anything just look it up. Within 5 minutes I had already found a ton of false info and then came across this, with just a small amount of effort. Chances are that if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. I am always a skeptic to any e-mails that I cannot verify, just be cautious and after a little bit of searching you can usually find everything to make a decision with.

This is what we were emailed with an attached form: Unfortunately we were not able to deliver postal package you sent on July the 25 in time because the recipient s address is not correct.
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office.

Your FEDEX
www.fedex.com

This is a message i received after a first message telling me i have money. I told them to send me a certified check. I gave them a generic address and this was the reply they sent back. I reseached Fedex and found it to be fake. also the initial message of my wind fall of money was from a Hotmail account. Is it not strange that these so called legitimate businesses operate on hotmail and yahoo

Your parcel worth the sum of $250,000USD
was given to us for delivery, please contact
our head officer via email with the details below:
FedEx Express Courier Uk
Mr.James Erick
Email: fedexcourier_uk [at] live [dot] com
Note: You will be responsible for the security keeping fees.