Federal Bureau of Investigation
Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
Seattle, Washington.
Telephone Number : (206) 973-2572
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 $500.00 (Five Hundred-US Dollars). We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $500.00 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. Benson Edward ) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: MR. BENSON EDWARD
E-MAIL ADDRESS: bensonedward1@hotmail.com
Telephone Number : +234-808-208-4580
You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
You will also be required to request Western Union details on how to send the required $500.00 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 $500.00 ONLY to Mr. Benson Edward 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).
Please find below an authorized signature which has been signed by the FBI Director- Robert Mueller, also below is the FBI NSB (National Security
FBI Director
Robert Mueller.
NSB Seal
Authorized Signature
NSB SEAL ABOVE
NOTE: In order to ensure your check gets delivered to you ASAP, you are advised to immediately contact Mr. Benson Edward via contact information provided above and make the required payment of $500.00 to information in which he shall provide to you.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
Seattle, Washington.
Telephone Number : (206) 973-2572
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 $500.00 (Five Hundred-US Dollars). We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $500.00 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. Benson Edward ) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: MR. BENSON EDWARD
E-MAIL ADDRESS: benson_edward001@hotmail.com
Telephone Number : +234-808-252-6229
You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
You will also be required to request Western Union details on how to send the required $500.00 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 $500.00 ONLY to Mr. Benson Edward 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).
Please find below an authorized signature which has been signed by the FBI Director- Robert Mueller, also below is the FBI NSB (National Security
FBI Director
Robert Mueller.
NSB Seal
Authorized Signature
NSB SEAL ABOVE
NOTE: In order to ensure your check gets delivered to you ASAP, you are advised to immediately contact Mr. Benson Edward via contact information provided above and make the required payment of $500.00 to information in which he shall provide to you.
Dear Sir, Good day sir please kindly clearify this mail that was sent to my mail box in the same way it was written above on your page, though i have mail mr. benson. Please kindly tell me how true it is because you know now that a lot of scam are on the web.
If its here, its a scam email. Enough said.
Received this mail via my EMail on 1/12/09. I am skeptical that this is true and may be a scam. One section of the mail on my EMail said I was to send Mr. Benson $850.00, and the letter above said it was $500.00. I have not at this time contacted Mr. Benson. Kindly advise ASAP if this is real or a SCAM. Thanking you for your immediate cooperation.
Mrs. Osna E. Capsuto/ Mr. Leo Capsuto
It is absolutely a scam.. Trash it.. Do not reply to it, that only encourages them to give your email address to other scammers.
Thnak you for your prompt reply to the scam. this was the third one I received this week. One was from India whose husband died and needed funds to help her claim over 5 million dollars of which I was to receive qite a sum. The other was for Palestinan woman with 2 or 3 chicldren whose husband was killed recently by Israelis in the current conflict. She said her husband had a bank account in England of of over 5.2 mil dollars and needed help to get to the Uk and then here to get the money. Again thanks. The Capsutos
Thanks to this site, I now know too that this is a SCAM!! How can they get away with using the title of FBI?? Isn’t that illegal? I would think so, seeing most of the people residing in the US already know that the FBI is used investigate FRAUD….which is what this company is doing…
My friend got same email. It is 100% scam. My knowledge of FBI and Justice Department very well. FBI don’t give lottery outside, they never do that. You can see the clues:
First clue is the headline of FBI is not in correct order. It was copied from the website but they forgot to put part of line to be together. Professional webpage designers always be careful with designing.
Second clue is FBI agents don’t support kind of lottery from the world. “Nigeria” is key for the scammers. The truth is about the scammers, they are stupider than stupid Americans. They don’t know how FBI works like that. Nigerian spy informed me that Nigerians have a limited or little knowledge about America so they don’t know about FBI, “Deaf Lottery” and states. I got “single deaf man from KY” on IM claimed that he is from Kentucky. I asked him how was bluegrass (Every Kentuckians know what the bluegrass means) and he think I am funny about the joke so I told him that he insulted Kentucky because he is stupid. He stopped contacting me.
Third clue is Scammer’s email, “sify.com” is Indian website from India.
Fourth clue is Director of FBI is always come full as Robert S. Mueller, III when he use emails as formal letter. He don’t put his email in public. NSB (National Security Branch is a part of FBI, not separate. There is no such as Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division. There are separate divisions. They are in Washington, D.C.
If you see “Nigeria”, you know Nigeria is a home of scammers.
Thanks for the excellent narrative Chris!
p.s. – I’m from Kentucky 🙂
Thanks to this site, I now know too that this is a SCAM!! How can they get away with using the title of FBI?? Isn’t that illegal? I would think so, seeing most of the people residing in the US already know that the FBI is used investigate FRAUD….which is what this company is doing…
thanks again for this site i almost belived in that…
Supposedly the email was from Mr.Mueller telling me to send money as soon as possible in order to acquire my inheritance of 6.5 million dollars.When checking the fbi email it was not clear if I was dealing with a legitmate site or not. Please let me know.
Is this a legitmate site for Mr. Mueller of the FBI? Did he really send me an email on a Sunday telling me to send money to Nigeria?
Was wondering if these people actually think someone will believe this??? How many people have actually tried sending in the money, I’m sure they have dummies that buy into this scam, @ $200.00 or $500.00 this could be a great way to make money hook line and sinker, if it’s too good to be true, it is…..
what do i do if i was stupid and fell for it???
the fbimail.com is registered to John Wang in CA, usa.
his registered email address is admaxs@gmail.com.
Send your nasty emails there as THIS IS A SCAM LOL!
Excellent bit of info, thanks for your input. Now to hunt him down and harrass him a little.. I’m thinking we should use the Patriot Act on him.
This is the second time these jokers have sent me this crock. If this scam was legal, and the FBI new about this, then why would they contact via-email? Our FBI can pretty much find anybody, so why wouldn’t they legally go trough all the proper channels to contact us face to face or by US mail, and why would we have to pay them to get our so called first. Where do these get their nerve?
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Exactly..