FedEx scam hits Summerside mailboxes
Letter sent through mail uses FedEx letterhead and tells customers they have to pay a fee to access $1.5M
Summerside police are warning about a new scam making the rounds in the city, with residents receiving letters by post with a fake FedEx letterhead.
The letter tells residents they have a package waiting for them that contains $1.5 five million U.S. in connection to a lottery in the United Kingdom. In order to get the package, the letter says, they have to pay a security fee.
"Of course it's fake, the whole deal, but the point of it is they're trying to get people to send in the security fee," said Sgt. Joe Peters, with Summerside Police Service
Peters says no one has paid the fee locally.
He said police checked with FedEx. The company confirmed this was a scam and said it gets about 30 complaints a month about it.
Summerside police advise anyone who gets this kind of letter, to give them a call, or contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.
