OT : Oh Jeez!! Anybody else get this??
carrie58
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Okay so I've gotten the bogus Speeding ticket in NY before and a couple of other odd scam e-mails this one is just totally wacked !!
This is a copy of the e-mail I received ......
"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 Website: www.fbi.gov
Attention, this is the final warning you are going to receive from me do you get me?
I hope youre understand how many times this message has been sent to you?.
We have warned you so many times and you have decided to ignore our e-mails or because you believe we have not been instructed to get you arrested, and today if you
fail to respond back to us with the payment then, we would first send a letter to the mayor of the city where you reside and direct them to close your bank account
until you have been jailed and all your properties will be confiscated by the fbi. We would also send a letter to the company/agency that you are working for so that
they could get you fired until we are through with our investigations because a suspect is not suppose to be working for the government or any private organization.
Your id which we have in our database been sent to all the crimes agencies in America for them to inset you in their website as an internet fraudsters and to warn
people from having any deals with you. This would have been solved all this while if you had gotten the certificate signed, endorsed and stamped as you where
instructed in the e-mail below.this is the federal bureau of investigation (fbi) am writing in response to the e-mail you sent to us and am using this medium to
inform you that there is no more time left to waste because you have been given from the 3rd of January. As stated earlier to have the document endorsed, signed and stamped without failure and you must adhere to this directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last when we must have arrested and jailed you for life and all your
properties confiscated.
You failed to comply with our directives and that was the reason why we didn't hear from you on the 3rd as our director has already been notified about you get the
process completed yesterday and right now the warrant of arrest has been signed against you and it will be carried out in the next 48hours as strictly signed by the
fbi director. We have investigated and found out that you didn't have any idea when the fraudulent deal was committed with your information's/identity and right now if
you id is placed on our website as a wanted person, i believe you know that it will be a shame to you and your entire family because after then it will be announce in
all the local channels that you are wanted by the fbi. As a good Christian and a honest man, I decided to see how i could be of help to you because i would not be happy to see you end up in jail and all your properties confiscated all because your information's was used to carry out a fraudulent transactions, i called the efcc and they directed me to a private attorney who could help you get the process done and he stated that he will endorse, sign and stamp the document at the sum of $98.00 usd only and i believe this process is cheaper for you.
You need to do everything possible within today and tomorrow to get this process done because our director has called to inform me that the warrant of arrest has been
signed against you and once it has been approved, then the arrest will be carried out, and from our investigations we learnt that you were the person that forwarded
your identity to one impostor/fraudsters in Nigeria when he had a deal with you about the transfer of some illegal funds into your bank account which is valued at the
sum of $10.500,000.00 usd.
I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till 5/30/2013 so that you could get this process done because i learnt that you were sent several e-mail
without getting a response from you, please bear it in mind that this is the only way that i can be able to help you at this moment or you would have to face the law
and its consequences once it has befall on you. You would make the payment through western union money transfer with the below details.
NAME: UZOUKWU CLETUS
ADDRESS: LAGOS NIGERIA
TEXT QUESTION:FOR
ANSWER: YOU
AMOUNT: $98
Senders name======
Send the payment details to me which are senders name and address, mtcn number, text question and answer used and the amount sent. Make sure that you didn't hesitate
making the payment down to the agency by today so that they could have the certificate endorsed, signed and stamped immediately without any further delay. After all
this process has been carried out, then we would have to proceed to the bank for the transfer of your compensation funds which is valued at the sum of $10.500,000.00
usd which was suppose to have been transferred to you all this while.
Note/ all the crimes agencies have been contacted on this regards and we shall trace and arrest you if you disregard this instructions. You are given a grace today to
make the payment for the document after which your failure to do that will attract a maximum arrest and finally you will be appearing in court for act of terrorism,
money laundering and drug trafficking charges, so be warned not to try any thing funny because you are been watched.
THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.
ROBERT MUELLER
WASHINGTON DC
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 Website: www.fbi.gov"
Anyone care to help me point out all the flaws in this??
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Comments
Wow. Just wow.
The worst part is, someone will fall for this even though it is blatantly obvious it is a scam.
Tell me about it ,curiosity made me read it ,then reread it ......then start laughing .....though I do wonder who I could send it to ,in order to just shut this nitwit down ....
That's a no brainer right there. Send it to the FBI. Not only is it a scam, but they are posing as officials from the FBI.
That does make sense,so have you got any idea how I could go about doing that??
Contact FBI Here this should do the trick.
Wow, the mysterious Nigerian regional office of the FBI needs 98 dollars for spelling and grammar lessons.
You should email him a smack in the face.
I was just reading the local FBI website when you posted your link .So I hope this shut's this joker down.
Yep grammar, spelling,sentence structure ,layout of a professional letter ...the little things .....
Though right now I am fighting the urge to respond to this e-mail .......rudely and sarcastically ,even though I know I shouldn't.
I just realized that spam e-mails are very similar to the old crank phone calls .....boy I sorta miss those ......they were fun to mess with ....
I actually got one that claimed it was the FBI... Cybercrimes division. I was trying to watch an anime on the web and my computer froze up, my screen locked onto an "FBI" warning giving me 3 days to make a payment at the local convenient store or I will be immediately arrested. It showed my name and where they thought I lived (they were about 35 miles off the mark). It said I would be labeled a sex offender for watching inappropriate material and also a video pirate. All for watching, or trying to watch, an anime video to get inspiration for using Aiko and Hiro in Daz Studio.
I couldn't access anything in my computer, not even Task Manager would come up. So, I used my iPad to go to the FBI website to see what they heck they were talking about and explain that it was a mistake and that I didn't have $500 by the coming Thursday. As soon as I Googled "FBI Cybercrime Division" or whatever the title was, a whole slew of warnings about the virus/scam and how to clear it came up.
I was so relieved. Nothing but YouTube from now on. Maybe Vimeo.
Geeze, it's been a long time since I've gotten any kind of scam email like that. Now-a-days I just get the phony PayPal warnings that my account's been frozen. Yeah right, like I'm going to click any links in those emails. Give me a break.
Keep us posted on what the FBI says. I'm sure they know all about it. If you can forward the email to them, they can check out the email headers and trace it back to this nitwit.
That line right there did me in. You know it's a fake as the government is one giant collective hive. They would have said US, and ended the letter with "resistance is futile". =P
The email to forward spam like this to is "spam @ uce.gov" (remove spaces and quotes)
I used to use that email all the time back when I used yahoo and hotmail, but gmail does a pretty good job of filtering the crap out.
Wow, scam emails are getting dumber each generation. I used to respond to some scam emails like this just to mess with their heads.
I remember replying to one when I got my first computer (I was 18 and didn't know squat back then). It was back during the days of having to use some giant bloated app to dial-out. Needless to say my mom had to deactivate and replace her credit card. >.<</p>
Anyone else ever get the "I'm a hitman and there's a contract out on you but if you pay me x amount I'll forget all about it" one?
I never got that one... but if I did, I'd be tempted to reply with "if you won't stay bought, then how do I know you won't take my money and kill me anyway?"
I never got that one... but if I did, I'd be tempted to reply with "if you won't stay bought, then how do I know you won't take my money and kill me anyway?"
Actually, I told the moron he was welcome to give it his best shot. In fact, I offered to set up a time and place. Never got a reply back.
I read an academic paper a little while back which argued that scam emails of this kind are made deliberately dumb, as a way of ensuring that only the very stupidest people write back to them. Their analysis showed that the biggest "cost" involved in the operation was the time spent answering emails and coaxing people into giving them money. If they have to deal with people who will ultimately see through the trick, that's a waste of time, so in order to make the scam pay off, they have to make sure they only get responses from the dumbest of the dumb.
Here's the article: Why do Nigerian scammers say they're from Nigeria?
Thanks Vaskania I used the address you provided to forward the e-mail to ,since from what I read ,on the IC3link they wanted proof of fraud,and how I was defrauded ......and I haven't been defrauded , just an attempt to ,have been amazed ,amused, confused and bamboozled .......
Yea, the other link would have been if you fell for the email and was subsequently a victim of fraud.