Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
The email message below: "Indicate Your Shipment Option," is a fake and a phishing scam. You should not respond to the message with your personal information. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and/or sending money. Therefore, never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted you via email message.
From: Global Courier Limited <globacourierlimited @outlook.com>Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:57 PMSubject: RE:Indicate Your Shipment Option(PARCEL\NUM\3039)To: Shawn Simmons <shawndms @gmail.com>*Global~Courier Services Limited 24-Hours Service.**Address: Plot No-40,Phase-3,industrial,Neara**Maruti Marketing Times,Okhla,Delhi 110019 India .**Telephone:~ 00 91 814 7837 491**Our Respected Customer **:** Shawn D Simmons**Welcome to Global Courier Services Limited.Compliment of the day to youand your family.In line with directives and documentation submitted to thiscompany by the Gmail &Microsoft Incorporation in respect to the winningcheque(Check) issued in your favor which is bearing your name.**This delivery company has been assigned to deliver your winningparcel(Winning Cheque (Check)and Certificates of claim) to your residence.**(1) WINNERS CHEQUE (Check)FOR THE VALUE WON($500,000.00 USD).**(2) WINNING CERTIFICATE FROM GMAIL & MICROSOFT PROMOTION ANNIVERSARY.**(3) CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN OF FUNDS(C.O.F.)**(4) APPLE LAPTOP**SHIPPING REQUIREMENT**Your requested data has been received and filed-up by this office, you arerequire to provide the following information which would be necessary forthe successful delivery of your consignment, you are require to provide thename of whoever that will sign to collect the parcel upon delivery? includea phone number of this person to enable us call him/her when we get closeto your residence .With this information, we would be able to dispatch yourparcel immediately.**We will only deliver the parcel to your address which was assigned by theLottery Organization and we will only hand over the parcel to the personyou will assign to sign for its collection at your residence.Thisindividual must have a valid identification of his/herself as proof .*
From: Global Courier Limited <globacourierlimited @outlook.com>Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:57 PMSubject: RE:Indicate Your Shipment Option(PARCEL\NUM\3039)To: Shawn Simmons <shawndms @gmail.com>
*Global~Courier Services Limited 24-Hours Service.**Address: Plot No-40,Phase-3,industrial,Neara**Maruti Marketing Times,Okhla,Delhi 110019 India .**Telephone:~ 00 91 814 7837 491**Our Respected Customer **:** Shawn D Simmons**Welcome to Global Courier Services Limited.Compliment of the day to you
and your family.In line with directives and documentation submitted to thiscompany by the Gmail &Microsoft Incorporation in respect to the winning
cheque(Check) issued in your favor which is bearing your name.**This delivery company has been assigned to deliver your winningparcel(Winning Cheque (Check)and Certificates of claim) to your residence.**(1) WINNERS CHEQUE (Check)FOR THE VALUE WON($500,000.00 USD).**(2) WINNING CERTIFICATE FROM GMAIL & MICROSOFT PROMOTION ANNIVERSARY.**(3) CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN OF FUNDS(C.O.F.)**(4) APPLE LAPTOP**SHIPPING REQUIREMENT**Your requested data has been received and filed-up by this office, you are
require to provide the following information which would be necessary forthe successful delivery of your consignment, you are require to provide thename of whoever that will sign to collect the parcel upon delivery? includea phone number of this person to enable us call him/her when we get closeto your residence .With this information, we would be able to dispatch your
parcel immediately.**We will only deliver the parcel to your address which was assigned by the
Lottery Organization and we will only hand over the parcel to the personyou will assign to sign for its collection at your residence.This
individual must have a valid identification of his/herself as proof .*
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I was also been sent an email like this but I got smarter and dismissed the offer after I was told to send money.These guys are nuts.But they managed to get my personal info but not bank related ones.What could them use my info for?Am a bit unrest.Thanks though
They will use your personal information to attempt to trick you into sending money or more information.They may also sell it to other scammers who will attempt to do the same.
I got this exact email. Wish I had researched before sending any funds. Once the shipping option is agreed upon then you receive further notice that the delivery can not be made until a Tax is paid because of the amount of the check.Thank you Google. Wish I would have checked here first
It is true, this is the second time, these guys are sending this email to me, only this time I went further and send them my address.Thanks to Google, as once I google I got the answer, that these people are scammers
I got a similar email and naturally followed through all the steps but stopped when I had reached payment option.I started checking online reviews and also called up the number given, however I stopped myself short of making a conversation with the person on the other end. All the time I had been keeping my fingers crossed hoping that this was a genuine thing, at the same time knew at the back of my mind that this was something fishy.We are always learning, right?
Wish I had been wiser sooner. Always learning. Education is'nt always free.
