eCourier Express Courier Services - Prize Scam

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We received this tip from Debbie, one of our fellow readers, over the weekend. It involves receiving an e-mail notification regarding winning an unknown prize from a service called eCourier. Debbie advised us that she went along with the scam right up until the point where they asked for money. It was at this point she realized something was not right. Good instincts Debbie!

Rule of thumb: Never accept a prize or winnings from an unknown source over e-mail. Never give out your personal information or banking information to an unknown party over e-mail or a website.

Let's take a look at the details of this scam in an effort to help everyone steer clear of this one:

1. You receive an e-mail from a courier service stating they have a prize/winnings for you and need additional information in order to deliver.

2. Once you confirm, they then follow-up with an email showing an scanned image of your actual package. This is a very clever twist on the scam, as it baits folks into thinking this is a real company informing them about a real prize.

eCourier Prize Scam Tactic - Showing a fake parcel addressed to you

3. Finally they send the final e-mail requesting you select a delivery method (at a high price!) or supply them with your banking information to transfer the winnings to you.

Here is the sample e-mail response they sent to Debbie:

DELIVERY DESTINATION:

RECEIVER'S NAME: [Removed]

DELIVERY ADDRESS: [Removed for privacy reasons]

PARCEL CODE AMCS-2Z31-486D.

Before we can effect on delivery of your winning to your house, Please see option of courier charges below.

An original certificate of weight: -------------0.15kg
Bonded draft of weight : ---------------------0.17kg
Total weight of parcel : -----------------------0.32kg
Color of Parcel : ------------------------------Brown

Note
that we do not operate on COD. Below are the mandatory delivery charges
that you required to pay to enable us deliver your parcel to you: Status Of Delivery Charges.(Please Choose Best Option For You).The
charges are a little high because of the insurance cover. we have
undertaken in case of loss,damage or theft of your highly sensitive
document.We assume all responsibilities in case of any eventualities,
also attached a scan copy of your parcel.

COURIER CHARGES FIRST OPTION

Courier Charges	£200.00	00
Administrative	£200.00	00
Insurance	£300.00	00
TOTAL ONE DAY DELIVERY	£700.00 ..............

COURIER CHARGES SECOND OPTION

Courier Charges	£200.00	00
Administrative	£100.00	00
Insurance	£200.00	00
TOTAL THREE DAYS DELIVERY	£500.00 ..............

COURIER CHARGES THIRD OPTION

Courier Charges	£100.00	00
Administrative	£50.00	00
Insurance	£100.00	00
TOTAL FIVE DAYS DELIVERY	£350.00 ..............

Option 2:BANK TRANSFER OF YOUR WINNING TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.

The said amount claim £600,000.00.(Six Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds). will be wired to your bank account via swift bank transfer.

Condition:
The cost of COT (commission of transfer) being charged by our
transferring bank, which is(i.e £ 1,200) of the cash being transferred
will be paid by you.

Note
that your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which
makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it has
been remitted to you.

This
means that the above charges cannot be deducted from the prize and
hence must be provided by you before your prize is transferred to you.

Also
attach a scanned copy of either your driver's license, international
passport (photo page) or any other legally identification document.

You have to choose for this any of this option of your sweetable of delivery , before will send you the payment detail, for you to make the payment of delivery charges,

Await to here a swift Response from you.