OH BOYY...Did someone send me a pkg?WARNING NOW!!

Reminder:

Dear Customer,
We regret to inform you that the delivery of your shipment has been suspended for the following reason.
1. In line with new laws, items transiting through the EU are to be fully taxed and are subject to postal inspection by transiting postal authorities.
Concluding the inspection on the package it has been ascertained that adequate duties was not paid on the package.
Your name and email address were on the package for contact details.
Under new laws any package transiting through the EU is liable to full duties payment. The sender did pay the appropriate courier fee but did not pay adequate duties on the package .We are therefore requesting you pay full duty for the coverage of (?)119 Euros on the package.
To resume delivery, you are obligated to pay the duties on the contents of the package
You should therefore contact your assigned claims Officer, Susan Hobbs to assist with the duty payment in
Spain , where your package is currently being held
Below is her contact information of your assigned claims
Officer.
Name: Susan Hobbs
Email address:s.hobbs@terra.com
Tel34) 678 701 804
Note: Duty coverage fees are payable to authorities through your assigned claims Officer.UPS® does not accept fees on behalf of foreign authorities.
Your old tracking number has been suspended due to non payment of tax.When making contact with your assigned claims officer via email or phone please quote reference Z167056475L1213
The status of your package can be tracked as soon as payment has been confirmed
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find out judy,!!! this smells of a scam!!?? maybe its me being super paranoid, but i wouldnt send money to anyone in a foreign country for a pig in a poke?? If all they have is your email, and a package is being sent, shouldnt they have your addy too? How many packages have you shipped across the pond that includes the email of the recipient? smelling more like a pig in a poke, call the lady mrs hobbs, ask some hard questions, they opened it, whats inside? if its not something you ordered or something someone confirms sending to you, you could just be mailing your cash away, if that is what makes you happy,please reference my old address and go estatic!!
just a friendly word of caution!! please be carefull

Hi Darryl
I emailed it..I tried calling and there was NO such number
I am going to the PO today..I am going to see if they would know
YES theres something fishy going on...it went to several ppl too,but I cannot see
their emails as they are private

Heres what they want in US money(172.55 )I DO NOT THINK SO

I have trades from UK and Japan....and I think thats not it

http://www.shareyouremails.com/read.cgi?id=1261689651

See the above link , looks like a scam to me.

Paul

There is no way that duty can be $172 for pins. I send mine as a gift and don't pay anything. I checked and there are no new laws. SCAM

Hi Paul
Thank you for that link..I just deleted it

Judy

Glad you shared this! I bet were all going to get these kind of emails soon. Someone who know we trade via mail is up to know good!

Thank you to everyone else who did some checking as well.

See people? This is why DPF members are so up to date on things!!!!

Vicki

That's crazy. Also, If it was sent via UPS, and UPS are emailing you, why is the officer email not a @UPS.com or similar email ending? If you still have the email, I'd forward it to UPS as I'm sure they'd like to know about it...

I just chatted with UPS and they said this is definetly as we all know and suspected a SCAM...its been going on for over a year and they are trying to find the source
She told me to print the email and hold onto it..Judy

That it is too ridiculous. People can be so greedy sometimes. These scams are so stupid.

Wow! Thanks for sharing this!

Sugar 119 Euros what the hell?

You traded with anyone from Europe?

And I have never heard of "adequate duties"

ITS a scam!!I called UPS

Thank goodness you didn't fall for it. Thats terrible, Judy, but thank you for notifing everyone, now we can all have our eyes peeled

Whats amazing is how curious some people are and just send the money.
Out of every 100 people they send this to, even if 1 responds with payment they get rich.
Send to 1,000,000 people .....well, just think.

Smells like Nigeria...lol

I have millions I need transfered but need your banking info and SS number.......

Thankfully that's settled and is a verified scam. We can now all semi-panic less if we get a similar email.

Also, I think that all the packages that I have received from DPFers in England have been through the USPS - None through UPS.

Lol these scammers are ridiculous. Almost $200 to receive an unknown package... are you kidding me???

Crazy and scary! Thanks for the heads up!

Glad you didn't fall for that. If you'd had to pay any import customs it would've been to your own government, not someone in Spain! Lol. Where do these people come up with this rubbish?!

Do you guys in the US ever have to pay any import fees or anything? I've often wondered. We don't pay customs/VAT between EU countries, but anything outside the EU coming in to us, if it's over the ridiculously small limit (£18 - it hs been kept at this limit for many years, which is pathetic given inflation) we have to pay VAT.

There is also a scam going around where you get a message from "UPS" or "Fedex" or something similar. The first time I got one I was worried for a second until I realized the message came to my work e-mail which I never use when trading/buying pins. These messages usually have an attachment you should never ever open! Courier services NEVER send you such an e-mail!

Well, after the recent UK pin fiasco I wouldn't be surprised if it was Disney sending these scam messages to make an extra buck. Am I the only one to remember the times when Disney used to stand for quality and customer satisfaction?

anastasia said:

Do you guys in the US ever have to pay any import fees or anything? I've often wondered. We don't pay customs/VAT between EU countries, but anything outside the EU coming in to us, if it's over the ridiculously small limit (£18 - it hs been kept at this limit for many years, which is pathetic given inflation) we have to pay VAT.

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Also, they include the shipping costs in the value of the shipment here in Finland and count customs + VAT for the total figure. I'm sure that can't be legal, but what is a single person to do against the government?

Yep, same here. I can't remember the actual customs limit here (it was increased recently to well over £100 I believe), but it's the VAT limit that is the killer at £18. If the value of the goods is over £18 they charge VAT (20% here) on the total cost of the item and delivery. If the item is expensive enough to get a customs charge (usually around 3.5%), then this customs charge is added to the delivery cost and item cost, adn then you get the 20% VAT charged on it! It really is scandalous. I don't know about your import limits in Finland, but our VAT limit of £18 has been at this amount for many many years. Surely by now someone should have increased it to take account of inflation!

So glad you got to the bottom of this, Judy. It is amazing how many people fall for scams like this!

Duckmite said:

Well, after the recent UK pin fiasco....

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What was that? I must have missed it.