I received the following email from From: [email protected]
Reply To: [email protected]

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Anti-Terrorist And Monetory Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Website: www.fbi.gov

Should I give them my info? Did I win? My name is Jason and my email is [email protected]. Please let me know. If my email was truly chosen to win money I can really use it but I don't want to be taken advantage of. Thanks for your help!

Attn: Beneficiary,

This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an Investigation with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you legally won the sum of $800, 000.00 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 a Certified Cashier's Check.

Normally, it will take up to 10 business days for an International Check to be cashed 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 United States Of America so as to enable you cash the check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of $800, 000.00 USD has been deposited with Bank Of America.

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 at Bank Of America you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the Lottery Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in Lagos, Nigeria. According to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the following -

(1) Deposit Fee's ( Fee's paid by the company for the deposit into an American Bank which is - Bank Of America )
(2) Cashier's Check Conversion Fee ( Fee for converting the Wire Transfer payment into a Certified Cashier's Check )
(3) Shipping Fee's ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's Check to your home address and this fee includes Insurance )

The total amount for everything is $300.00 (Three Hundred US Dollars). We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $300.00 should be deducted from your winning prize but we found out that the funds have already been deposited at Bank Of America 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 via Western Union Money Transfer Or Money Gram.

In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact the agent in-charge ( Mr. Ronald Chong ) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:

Contact Agent Name : Mr. Ronald Chong

E-MAIL ADDRESS: [email protected]

You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:

Full Name :
Full Address :
Gender (S) :
Age :
Mobile Number :
Occupation :
Home Phone Number :
Monthly Income :


You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram details on how to send the required $300.00 in order to immediately ship your prize of $800, 000.00 USD via Certified Cashier's Check drawn from Bank Of America, 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 $300.00 ONLY to Mr. Ronald Chong via information in which he shall send to you, if you do not receive your winning prize of $800, 000.00 we shall be held responsible for the loss and this shall invite a penalty of $3, 000 which will be made PAYABLE ONLY
to you (The Winner).

Mr. Bill Nicholson
Special Agent.
Washington DC FBI.
Room, 7367
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

Please find below an authorized signature which has been signed by the FBI Director- Robert Mueller, also below is the FBI NSB (National Security Branch Seal)

ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONETARY CRIMES DIVISION
FBI HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535-0001
Attn: Beneficiary,

This is an official advice from the Federal Bureau of Investigation; it has come to our notice that an Afflict Bank in African has transfer the sum of 10, 500, 000.00 U.S Dollar to Bank of America in your name which BOA are to credit to your personal account.

We have decided to contact you directly to acquire the proper verifications and proof from you to show that you are the rightful person to receive this fund. We want to make sure its a clean and legal money you are about to receive before we can instruct the Bank to credit your account.So you are advice to forward us the "Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer" (DIST) if you have it in your position to satisfy that the money your about to receive is legal and legitimate.

If you don’t have these documents as required, let us know so that we can direct you on whom you are to communicate to obtain the document and send to us so that we clarify them and ask the bank holding the funds to go ahead increditing your funds toyour account immediately.


This condition is valid until 15 day. after we shall take action on canceling the payment and then charge you for illegally moving funds out of Africa.

Sign
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Director Washington D.C
MR.ROBERT MUELLER
Robert S. Mueller, III <[email protected]

I got an email like the following and started to reply to it because in the from section it said it was from ROBERT S. MUELLER FBI DIRECTOR" <[email protected]>, but when I hit reply and finished typing my message it said it was replying to [email protected] . It seems the people sending out scams to get personal information are getting more clever and changing the way emails show up to us. I was very unsure about responding to the email at first because it was to undisclosed recipients. I usually don't post information about the number of email scams I have gotten but this one I couldn't find anything close to it until I got to the very bottom of the message. But when I noticed who it was replying to since the email it showed it came from and the email it was going to were different, I thought I NEEDED to post it on a website so no one else falls victim to this message.


Federal Bureau of Investigation
Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division
J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington DC


Attention Beneficiary,


Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have also noticed that over the past you have been transacting with some imposters and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some imposters claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.


The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (ICCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) of how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these imposters. As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us


We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $6, 100, 000.00 be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $5, 000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world were you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM). We have advised that this should be the only way at which you are to receive your payment because it’s more guaranteed, since over $5 billion was lost on fake check last two (2) years 2008.


We guarantee 100% receipt of your payment, because we have perfected everything in regards to the release of your $6.1 million United States Dollars to be 100% risk free and free from any hitches as it’s our duty to protect you. (This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed to people which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared for the betterment of the current economic status of the nation and its citizens as he bas always believed “Our Time for Change has come” because “Change can happen


To redeem your fund you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card Center via email for their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf which will cost you $275 only nothing more and no hidden fees as everything else has been taken cared of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $275 only.


Contact Information
Name: Barrister Mark Anthony
Phone: +234-805-936-7401
Email: [email protected]


Do contact Barrister Mark Anthony of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as listed below, calling him on his hot line will be faster than to email him:


Your full Name:
Your Address:
Home/Cell Phone:
Occupation:
Age:


On contacting him with your details your files would be updated and he will be sending you the payment information in which you will use in making payment of $275 via Western Union Money Transfer for the procurement of your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order. After which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay, extra fee or any authority raising eyebrow.


Upon receipt of payment the delivery officer will ensure that your package is sent within 24 working hours. Because we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive your ATM CARD Shippment Confirmation within the next 24hrs after you have made the payment for shipping.


Once again we are so sure of you receiving your payment at no any other cost as we have taking it upon our duty to monitor everything in other to cub cyber crime that is perpetrated by those impostors.


Thanks and hope to read from you soon.


ROBERT S. MUELLER,


DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
TELEPHONE: 206-666-5283
FAX: 206-666-5283

Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM card, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Barrister Mark Anthony of the ATM card center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office via the above fax number so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime.

I received an e-mail from Robert Mueller telling me if I did not send "the diplomatic seal of transfer to satisfy to us that the money you are about to receive is legitimate and real money. If you fail to provide the document to us, we will take proper action against you for not proving to us the legitimacy of the fund you are about to receive" (fro the central bank of Nigeria).
I will attempt to forward the e-mail to you.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
ROOM 4-230, KALANIANAOLE FOB
300 ALA MOANA BOULEVARD HONOLULU, HAWAII 96850-0053
http://www.fbi.gov

Attn: Honorable Beneficiary.

We the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI Honolulu) United States Of America have discovered through our intelligent monitoring network that you have a transaction going on as either inheritance payment, Lottery or contract payment in a tone of Millions of United States Dollars which have been approved but have not been settled.

Firstly, I must start by apologizing for the delay in response to you and for not contacting you for a very long period.

This email is coming to you in regards to your fund that you have been unable to claim due to your lack of co-operation in the past. This organization has decided to make it know to you that your bank draft has been cleared and that you will be receiving your fund through the fastest means of money transfer in the world.

Since you have not been able to claim you fund that has been with us for a very long time, we have to call back for the Bank Draft and make arrangement alternatively to transfer your fund instalmentally through Western Union Money Transfer here today which has been which has been programmed/registered with the bellow information for you:

Sender Name: PACTRICK JOB
MTCN: 481 819 6201 (Available For Pick Up)
Text Question: Sports?
Answer: Ball
Amount Programmed: $5, 000

The endorsement & daily activation file fee of $450 will be sent to the office Nigeria in care to our accounting officer through Western Union Money Transfer nearest to you. You are to send the endorsement activation charges with the information below..

Receiver's Name: Nwaigwe Theaddeus
Receiver's Address:lagos Nigeria.
Text Question: Blue
Text Answer: Blue
Amount: $450.00 USD
MTCN#:...???

CONTACT PERSON: DR. JOHN CHRIS,
DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMISSION, INTERCONTINENTAL BANK PLC
EMAIL: [email protected]
DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER: +234 703 647 4744

As soon as you send the fee, send them the transfer Mtcn# to help them proceed with immediate transfer activation of your first installment payment.

Notice: This preference is being given to you to our good name and also to make sure we get your fund paid to you with no complication of things or delay. The activation Fees could not be deducted from the Bank Draft fund here, as we have no access to the fund due to the Fact that it was placed in a Bank Draft/Check and not cash at hand.

Please submit your Activation charges with the name of their accounting officer as given to you and get back to the office with details of your payment for further actions here.To avoid complication of things, you are advise to treat this payment as urgent as possible so we can proceed with the activation of your first installment so you can get it picked up in any nearest Western Union Money Transfer outlet near you on time to avoid any internet scam hacking of the Mtcn that is given to you above.

Please Note: the total amount that will be paid to you weekly is totaled: USD$35, 000.00 till the total amount of your Bank Draft fund is completely paid.

Treat As Urgent and get back to their office with receipt of your payment for fast procedures here.

Thanking you for your Anticipated Co-operations.

Faithfully Yours,

MR .ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
FOR COROPORATE AFFAIRS
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI Honolulu)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA