Mongrel scammer got me.

[bloodhound31]

LATEST EMAIL SCAM.

I'm actually expecting a delivery from DHL, so this clever mongrel had me open an attachment on an email. Luckily it was just a word document requiring me to fill in details and send it back. The bad thing was, in order to open it, the sender requested a read receipt, which I did. I better get ready for a flood of spam now... grrrr!!!

Dear customer,

We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmed Package that arriver our office for shipping to your Country of resident. We thought that the sender gave you our contact details here and that you would have contacted us by now. We would also like to let you know that a letter is attached to your package. However, we cannot quote its content to you via E-mail for privacy reasons. We understand that the content of your package itself is a Bank Draft; this package arrive our office last weekend for mailing, and they explained to us that this fund is your unclaimed lottery funds.

We are sending you this E-mail because your package is been registered on a Special Order. What you have to do now, is to contact our Delivery Department for the immediate dispatch of your package to your residential address. Note that as soon as our Delivery Team confirms your information, it will only take us one working day (24 hours) for your package to arrive at its designated destination. For your information, the VAT & Shipping charges as well as processing fees have been paid by the lottery officials before your package was registered.

What you have to do now for immediate dispatch of your parcel, you have to pay a sum of $105 US Dollars to the DHL Delivery Department for the Security Keeping Fee of your parcel. DHL Company as stated in our privacy terms & condition page. Also be informed that the lottery officials wished to pay for the Security Keeping charges, but we do not accept such payments considering the facts that all items & packages registered with us has a time limitation and we cannot accept payment not knowing when you will be picking up the package or even respond to us. So we cannot take the risk to have accepted such payment in case of any possible demurrage.

Kindly note that the lottery officials did not leave us with any further information. We hope that you send your response to us as soon as possible because if you fail to respond until the expiry date of the foremost package, we may refer the package to the European Commission or the Welfare as the package does not have a return address.
You are required to contact the delivery department (DHL Express Delivery Post) with the details given below:
DHL Express Delivery Post
Contact DHL Delivery Email: (express_delivery19@rocketmail.com)
Mr Hassan Umar
Managing Director
Tel: +225 101 3452

Kindly complete the below form and send it to the email address given above.

This is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone numbers.

RECEIVES NAME:
TELEPHONE:
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
STATE:
COUNTRY:


As soon as your details are received, our delivery team will give you the necessary payment procedure so that you can effect the payment for the Security Keeping Fees. They will not hesitate to dispatch your package as well as the attached letter to your residence. Which usually takes 24 hours being an over night delivery service.

Note: that we were not instructed to email you, but due to the high priority of your package we had to inform you as your sender did not leave us with your phone number. We personally sealed your Bank Draft and we found your email contact in the attached letter as the recipient of the foremost package. Ensure to contact the delivery department with the email address given above and ensure to fill the above form as well to enable a successful reconfirmation.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Lyrical Walker
DHL Online Team Management.
All rights reserved. © 1969-2012

[ZeroID (Brent)]

At least he hasn't gotten any money out of you. A bit of spam\scam mail you can trash with a rule in your mail client if you can't be bothered doing it yourself. If you just keep deleting it he will go away eventually. Just don't reply to any other contact. He is trying to make money and if you don't respond then he is wasting time.

You could also 'play' with him 419eater style. promise everything, deliver nothing. Better done from a throwaway email address though.
Used to be an entertaining exercise but got rather tedious after a while. I 'outed' one a few years back. He confessed then tried to get me to send money to buy a taxi so he could do legitimate work .. Yeah Right !!

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

+225 International code is the Ivory Coast....

I cant believe the crap they put into these so called legitimate documents.

Rocektmail.com is apparently an official DHL email address domain?

Mrs Lyrical Walker? :ROFL:

we may refer the package to the European Commission or the Welfare

huh? what?

All rights reserved. © 1969-2012 - Cool!, they grabbed this off the end of a DVD (probably pirated too)

Seems legit.

Cheers

Chris

[RobinClayton]

I love the imagination and audacity of these guys. I think if they ever started trying to get a real job they might actually do quite well for themselves.

I just get angry that they feel it is OK to attempt to separate honest people from money they have worked hard to accumulate.

[kustard (Simon)]

One of my honeypot email accounts which only gets used for subscribing to lists etc has been inundated with a lot of scam spam, emails from virgin/jetstar etc about booked flights, stuff from DHL and UPS, etc etc... They are really bringing it all out to see how many people they can get over the xmas period.

Makes me quite angry.

[PCH (Paul)]

I think you'll find that they already are doing quite well for themselves - actually - lol

Originally Posted by RobinClayton

I love the imagination and audacity of these guys. I think if they ever started trying to get a real job they might actually do quite well for themselves.

I just get angry that they feel it is OK to attempt to separate honest people from money they have worked hard to accumulate.

[PCH (Paul)]

Crikey Baz,

it ain't that clever matey. One glance at the typos and content tells you it's these jokers at it again. Surprised they got you with that tbh. Sorry

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

The only thing Baz did was open the attachment and send a read receipt Paul.

The content of the email was simply listed so we could all have a laugh.

Cheers

Chris

[RickS (Rick)]

It's a good idea to turn off automatic read receipts.

I got a bogus email purportedly from the ATO yesterday with some malware attached. It was much better written than the usual and they had gone to some trouble to make it look real. Digging through the email headers I found that it originated from an IP address in Indonesia. The malware was only identified by 5 of the 19 scanners here: http://virusscan.jotti.org/en

If the bad guys get their act together it will be very scary.

Cheers,
Rick.

[bloodhound31]

Originally Posted by PCH

Crikey Baz,

it ain't that clever matey. One glance at the typos and content tells you it's these jokers at it again. Surprised they got you with that tbh. Sorry

I didn't get to see the text until I had opened the document Paul.

After that, one glance a the blue bold writing a mile long with atrocious grammar was enough for me to see it was bogus. I didn't even need to read it.

[PCH (Paul)]

Aha - now I understand Baz - OK, you're redeemed

Cheers,
Paul

Originally Posted by bloodhound31

I didn't get to see the text until I had opened the document Paul.

After that, one glance a the blue bold writing a mile long with atrocious grammar was enough for me to see it was bogus. I didn't even need to read it.

[leon]

Certainly a long winded letter Baz, they just don't stop, do they, there must be some very ordinary people in this world, who like nothing better than to steal and lie.

Leon

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Originally Posted by RickS

It's a good idea to turn off automatic read receipts.

I got a bogus email purportedly from the ATO yesterday with some malware attached. It was much better written than the usual and they had gone to some trouble to make it look real. Digging through the email headers I found that it originated from an IP address in Indonesia. The malware was only identified by 5 of the 19 scanners here: http://virusscan.jotti.org/en

If the bad guys get their act together it will be very scary.

Cheers,
Rick.

I got one of them also.. if they don't know how to contact me other than email, they get no help from me.