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Lame spam of the day: FBI and Nigeria still want to send me money

January 30, 2012 by Robert Leave a Comment

I wrote about a version of this one last year, but the language of this version is so tortured that I have to post it.  No official-looking seal this time.

Sender: FBI OFFICE (office.fbi3@gmail.com)
Subject: FROM IMF HEAD OFFICE
Text:
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

Attenuation,

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 wide, 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 )
(3) Shipping Fee’s ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier’s
Check to your home address)

The total amount for everything is $76.00 We have tried our possible
best to indicate that this $76.00 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. Henry Ben) via e-mail. Kindly look
below to find appropriate contact information:

CONTACT AGENT NAME: Mr. Henry Ben
E-MAIL : imfoffce5@yahoo.com.tr
PHONE NUMBER: +22999511139

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 $76.00 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 $76.00 ONLY to Mr.
Henry 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, III Robert S. Mueller,
III Director Office of Public Affairs
Welcome once more to FBI www.fbi.gov
 

Robert

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