Here’s a scam email that’s destined for the weird files.  It comes from the right honorable REV.DENIS LOPEZ and purports to contain information about a package at O’Hare Airport.

Cargo Unit

Chicago O’Hare International Airport

Airport code: ORD

10000 West O’Hare

Chicago, IL 60666

USA.

ATTENTION: Final Notice of Your Package withreg #: SA335493RDK

In view of your inability to receive your package reg #: SA335493RDK  originally scheduled to be delivered to you by the agency Foreign payment service New York.

 

The package in a golden metal box valued 5,316,000USD (Five Million, Three Hundred and Sixteen thousand United states dollars) arrived at Chicago international airport via British airways flight no.BA592 from London UK sometime ago. The agency Foreign

Payment service New York staff came and applied for the release of this package for delivery to your address but has since not shown up again.

I am hereby writing to inform you that the days of grace has expired and we shall begin to charge a storage fee of US$10 daily. Please call Mr ROBERT WILLIAMS for enquirers to release this package and deliver it to you. email:  r.williams36@aol.com

Note that this notice serves as our last recovery notice to you as our department will be compelled to list your package as an unclaimed and maybe forfeited.

Best regards,

REV.DENIS LOPEZ

Terminal 8. ext.15

That’s right, you forget about the golden metal box that is worth almost $5.5 million dollars!  It arrived ‘sometime ago’ at O’Hare from mysterious Britain and has been sitting their unclaimed ever since.  All you have to do is pay the $10 a day storage fee and the valuable golden metal box will be yours for the keeping!  Wow, it must be your lucky day!

Needless to say, you aren’t the only one who got this email.  Your chance of actually receiving a box worth over $5 million by paying the storage fees is on par with the chance you’ll be killed by a meteor today.  Actually, the chances of dying in a meteor storm are probably higher.

Make sure you delete this thing and report the email to AOL.

Protip: there’s no such thing as a free lunch or a $5 million forgotten golden box.