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[DIGGER27]

I dunno...something about this email I got from the FBI seems funny.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Andrew McCabe to you (Bcc)
July 19Show Details
Federal Bureau of Investigation


Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington DC Chris Swecker,


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 noticed that you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo /Mr. Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some impostors claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.


The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors. 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 $5,900,000.00(Five Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars). will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $15,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world where you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM).


We guarantee receipt of your payment. This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owned to citizens of American and also Asia and Europe which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared.



To redeem your funds, 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 $390 Usd only and nothing more as everything else has been taken care of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $390.00 only.

Mr.Samson Lucas(ATM Card Center Director)

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

ATM Card Center Director

Email:[email protected]


Do contact of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as listed below:

FULL NAMES: __________________________________
DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD: __________________
DATE OF BIRTH: __________________
OCCUPATION: __________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER: _____________________
EMAIL ADDRESS: _____________________


On contacting him with your details your file would be updated and he will be sending you the payment information in which you will use in making payment of $390.00 via Money Gram or 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.

Andrew McCabe, DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in posses 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 so we could act upon it immediately.

Help stop cyber crime.

 

[GKL]

Sounds like a "phishing" type email scam, I occasionally get one faked as coming from real companies.

NEVER click on any links in the email, I can "hover" the cursor (without clicking) over any link and you'll see the real URL and can usually tell it's not from the real company.

You can always manually go to the real company web site by typing in their address manually and contact them via email or phone and they can verify it's not from them.

 

[GroundSweeper]

Heck it's only $390 (and your identity) to find out

 

[Beyonder123]

Don't trust it. It's a scam. FBI.Gov says this.

New E-Scams & Warnings
To report potential e-scams, please go the Internet Crime Complaint Center and file a report. Note: The FBI does not send mass e-mails to private citizens about cyber scams, so if you received an e-mail that claims to be from the FBI Director or other top official, it is most likely a scam.

 

[BBsGal]

Oh my gosh, what will they try next!

 

[Reef Runner]

Hey Digger, It's the FBI - right ? It's on the internet - right ? It must be true - right ?

 

[zeemang]

Without your SS# they are going to have a heck of a time getting you those funds Probably ought to just include that and your mom's maiden name anyway to make sure

 

[Beach Bum]

looks legit

 

[GKL]

Similar scams -

https://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3085&start=105

to check things in general -

http://www.snopes.com/category/facts/fraud/

 

[hawgdawg]

Jump on it man. You're 390 bucks away from " Rich " !!!! It's guaranteed , it said so. Man,, you are so lucky,,,,,

 

[DIGGER27]

Jump on it man. You're 390 bucks away from " Rich " !!!! It's guaranteed , it said so. Man,, you are so lucky,,,,,

Well, since the FBI is involved it must be legit.
Funny thing though, the FBI is pretty much only responsible for domestic intelligence and security.
Here is their mission statement...

Our Priorities

Protect the United States from terrorist attack
Protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage
Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes
Combat public corruption at all levels

There actually was an Internet Fraud Complaint Center since foreign cyber crime can crossover to domestic issues but they changed their name in 2003 to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, (IC3).
I wonder why everyone at the FBI didn't seem to get the memo.
https://www.ic3.gov/about/default.aspx

For them to get involved in getting me this money, money I really had no idea I was even owed, I am honored.
Don't remember filing any complaints in the past but sometimes I drink a lot so there are gaps.
They negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance for me, (I wonder which country that was in?), so I am grateful.
Above and beyond their duties so I am just thrilled...plus the big guy, the acting director of the entire FBI is handling my case personally.
You would think that guy has more on his plate to worry about than just little old me but stranger things have happened.

As soon as we get the ball rolling on this and I get that ATM card the first $15,000 I withdraw will go towards a CTX, a DEUS maybe a new tool pouch and batteries...lots and lots of batteries.

Do ATM machines even hold this much money, and will I have to withdraw that $15,000 out in $300 increments?
Better get to my nearest ATM machine early in the morning when I get that card.

 

[T-Man]

My 16 year olds newest hobby is messing with these guys. He always replies to them with a bunch on bogus info and will give the the run around for weeks on end arguing over this and that. The names he uses are so far out there I don't understand how he can hook them in and keep them going for so long.

 

[BottleCapKing]

You can tell these phishing scams by the bad spelling, poor grammar, run-on sentences, and lack of needed punctuation.

A government agency will never address you as "Attention Beneficiary" in an official correspondence. They know who you are and who they they intend to address - especially the FBI.

The email address is a dead give away as well - as government email is a matter of public record, it is a federal crime to use third party email for government business (Though, according to the former FBI director, it seems intent is the final determination of criminality...)

Also beware of links in emails. There is a trick that allows cyber criminals to misrepresent URLs using Unicode trickery. The link may say one thing, but if you mouse over it, it will same something else entirely. In the past, all URLs had to be constructed using the set of Latin characters. Now, URLs can be constructed using other character sets. For example, the Cyrillic "a" is U+-430 and the Latin "a" is U+0041. While they both look the same, they are treated entirely different. Using these look-alike characters from different character sets, you can construct a link that looks like google.com, apple.com, etc using non-Latin characters. These links will of course take you somewhere else entirely.

Also - is there really am ATM Card Center Director at the FBI?

 

[achaios]

At a company I once worked for, we would get these in the USPS, until they decided that since the stamps were as counterfeit as the promises in the letters, they actually started burning them at the airport they arrived in.

-- Tom

 

[NectarDetector]

My favorites are ones that say I won millions of dollars via dead uncle, they just need my name.

Uhhh if you contacted me didn't you know who I was? Go ahead and put the money in my account!

 

[DIGGER27]

You can tell these phishing scams by the bad spelling, poor grammar, run-on sentences, and lack of needed punctuation.

A government agency will never address you as "Attention Beneficiary" in an official correspondence. They know who you are and who they they intend to address - especially the FBI.

The email address is a dead give away as well - as government email is a matter of public record, it is a federal crime to use third party email for government business (Though, according to the former FBI director, it seems intent is the final determination of criminality...)

Also beware of links in emails. There is a trick that allows cyber criminals to misrepresent URLs using Unicode trickery. The link may say one thing, but if you mouse over it, it will same something else entirely. In the past, all URLs had to be constructed using the set of Latin characters. Now, URLs can be constructed using other character sets. For example, the Cyrillic "a" is U+-430 and the Latin "a" is U+0041. While they both look the same, they are treated entirely different. Using these look-alike characters from different character sets, you can construct a link that looks like google.com, apple.com, etc using non-Latin characters. These links will of course take you somewhere else entirely.

Also - is there really am ATM Card Center Director at the FBI?

Well sure...Samson Lucas, just like it says.
Strange that a govt. employee would use a gmail account though.

 

[GKL]

One very basic guideline is that ANY request for money upfront should a raise an immediate RED FLAG !
Whether it is a so-called contest, sweepstakes, or other "you got money due" message.

 

[Grumpa]

Strange that a govt. employee would use a gmail account though.

You mean gmail doesn't stand for Government Mail?

 

[GKL]

You mean gmail doesn't stand for Government Mail?

Hey, now that you mention it, it just might be that the scammer used a "gmail" account hoping some people might actually think that the "g" stood for government

 

[Franz]

Which "Ben of FedEx" are they refering to? Poor Ben, people are always impersonating him to commit fraud...