An email... from the FBI?!

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#1

ADHadh

Aug 26, 2011 18:42:50
This cheered me up:

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Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J.Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
www.fbi.gov

ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY
This e-mail has been issued to you in order to Officially inform you that we
have completed an investigation on an International Payment in which was
issued to you by an International Lottery Company. With the help of our newly
developed technology (International Monitoring Network System) we discovered
that your e-mail address was automatically selected by an Online Balloting
System, this has legally won you the sum of $2.4million USD from a Lottery
Company outside the United States of America. During our investigation we
discovered that your e-mail won the money from an Online Balloting System and
we have authorized this winning to be paid to you via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED
BANK DRAFT.

Normally, it will take up to 5 business days for an INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED
BANK DRAFT by your local bank. We have successfully notified this company on
your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a registered bank within the
world
winde, so as to enable you cash the check instantly without any delay,
henceforth the stated amount of $2.4million USD has been deposited with IMF .
We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to receive
the winning prize as we have verified the entire transaction to be Safe and
100% risk free, due to the fact that the funds have been deposited with IMF
you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the Lottery
Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in Cotonou, Benin
Republic. According to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the
following,

(1) Deposit Fee's ( IMF INTERNATIONAL CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE )
(2) Shipping Fee's ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's Check to
your home address)

The total amount for everything is $96.00 We have tried our possible best to
indicate that this $96.00 should be deducted from your winning prize but we
found out that the funds have already been deposited IMF and cannot be
accessed by anyone apart from you the winner, therefore you will be required
to pay the required fee's to the Agent in-charge of this transaction
In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact
the
agent in-charge ( Mr Mark Ben) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find
appropriate contact information:

CONTACT AGENT NAME: Mr Mark Ben
imf-benin1@hotmail.fr
PHONE NUMBER: +22998319986

You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:

You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram details on
how to send the required $96.00 in order to immediately ship your prize of
$2.4million USD via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT from IMF, also include
the following transaction code in order for him to immediately identify this
transaction : EA2948-910.

This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is
authorizing you to pay the required $96.00 ONLY to Mr Mark Ben via
information in which he shall send to you,

Mr. Robert Mueller
Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
Yours in Service,Photograph of Director
Robert S. Mueller, IIIRobert S. Mueller,
III Director Office of Public Affairs
Welcome once more to FBI www.fbi.gov
#2

Cpt_Micha

Aug 26, 2011 18:44:45
Well yes...

you see the all disappeared recently....
#3

bone_naga

Aug 26, 2011 19:12:55
Well it's good to know that not only is the FBI interested in making sure that you got your money from that international lottery you didn't even know you had entered, but Mr. Mueller himself has taken a personal interest. If you can't trust the FBI, who can you trust?
#4

Robin_Hoodlum

Aug 26, 2011 19:19:06
That is the most ridiculous thing I have seen all day.

Well, until I see the person that actually believes that garbage...
#5

Webster

Aug 26, 2011 19:27:06
That is the most ridiculous thing I have seen all day.

Well, until I see the person that actually believes that garbage...



And you WILL. You'd think people wouldn't fall for it, but they do.
#6

EscherEnigma

Aug 26, 2011 19:30:25
Oh.  Just a scam.  For a second there I was thinking "they're checking out my forum buddies?  I've made it big!"
#7

bone_naga

Aug 26, 2011 19:58:25
That is the most ridiculous thing I have seen all day.

Well, until I see the person that actually believes that garbage...


There was an episode of Intervention where the guy was wasting thousands of dollars on scams like that. They recorded his phone conversation with a Mr. George Washington. He and Thomas Jefferson were working hard to get the guy his prize money.
#8

Robin_Hoodlum

Aug 26, 2011 20:02:18
That is the most ridiculous thing I have seen all day.

Well, until I see the person that actually believes that garbage...


There was an episode of Intervention where the guy was wasting thousands of dollars on scams like that. They recorded his phone conversation with a Mr. George Washington. He and Thomas Jefferson were working hard to get the guy his prize money.


I saw that one.
I kept wondering why his wife hadn't left him...
#9

bone_naga

Aug 26, 2011 20:04:31
I wonder things like that during a lot of those episodes. In fact, any given reality show generally causes me to wonder who can stand those people.
#10

Robin_Hoodlum

Aug 26, 2011 20:07:08
I wonder things like that during a lot of those episodes. In fact, any given reality show generally causes me to wonder who can stand those people.


Yeah... every time the wife has those Jersey Shore/ Jerseylicious shows on I think "their parents must be sooo proud"
#11

The_Silversword

Aug 26, 2011 23:00:21
I think its legit, everybody knows that the FBI uses French hotmail accounts for their email, everybody knows that right?
#12

ADHadh

Aug 27, 2011 6:05:21
I think its legit, everybody knows that the FBI uses French hotmail accounts for their email, everybody knows that right?


...that makes sense.
#13

pluisjen

Aug 27, 2011 6:12:30
If it didn't work, they wouldn't be sending them. Ergo; people fall for it.
#14

sfdragon

Aug 27, 2011 8:06:28
that f b i is the Female Body Inspectors also known as gynocologists...


either way its a load of garbage..... funny though  
#15

yellowdingo

Aug 28, 2011 17:57:09
Perhaps they would be interested in the Naughty US soldiers who send me emails offering to mail me a crate of iraqi dinars to hold for them - if only I will provide them with details of my identity.
#16

sfdragon

Aug 28, 2011 21:14:56
send them

John Q. Doe

911-00-0911  


louieville kentucky 4545  
#17

Escef

Aug 29, 2011 0:45:54
What I think is awesome is that the IMF agent's email is a French Hotmail account.
#18

Maxperson

Aug 29, 2011 14:07:50
I once got a letter as a white American, telling me that I had won the Mexican lottery and my share was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  Nevermind that my American lotteries don't reach that high of a number.  Then it wanted me to send my donation to someplace in Holland I think.  Somewhere around there anyway.  Apparently Europe was handing the Mexican lottery for the American winner. :P
#19

pigknight

Aug 29, 2011 20:28:09
As a member of the FPI (Federal Piggly Inmvestigators) I can say this is a scam. We're close to finding the rigleader behind all these scams.

You can help us by sending 63$ Amercian Dolars to:

pigpal@paypal.com
1234 Not a Real Street Dr., Pigopolis PI

Phone= +5555555555555
#20

Timmeh

Aug 29, 2011 20:29:55
o.o

I'll send 63 American Dolars to help fight crime any day!
#21

Ragnar_Lodbrok

Aug 29, 2011 21:06:45
As a member of the FPI (Federal Piggly Inmvestigators) I can say this is a scam. We're close to finding the rigleader behind all these scams.

You can help us by sending 63$ Amercian Dolars to:

pigpal@paypal.com
1234 Not a Real Street Dr., Pigopolis PI

Phone= +5555555555555

How many shiny objects is that equal to? Do you take barter?

#22

sfdragon

Aug 30, 2011 0:13:22
As a member of the FPI (Federal Piggly Inmvestigators) I can say this is a scam. We're close to finding the rigleader behind all these scams.

You can help us by sending 63$ Amercian Dolars to:

pigpal@paypal.com
1234 Not a Real Street Dr., Pigopolis PI

Phone= +5555555555555


 you forgot the 911 extension
#23

Qube

Aug 30, 2011 9:00:49
pigpal@paypal.com
1234 Not a Real Street Dr., Pigopolis PI

I tried.
I got the letter back with "adress unknown"
Is is possible you mistyped?