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• Rex // Jan 5, 2009 at 6:00 pm

  Got nearly the same message. Seems like the Director of the FBI would have better grammar in an official letter, as this is suposed to be.

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• Vaibhav // Jan 6, 2009 at 10:20 am

  I got the exact same message, it is spam beware!!

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• annette // Jan 7, 2009 at 5:14 pm

  I have the same e-mail!!! I can NOT beleive that these guys get away with such scams!You can not go around claming you are with the FBI gee its just nuts…BEWARE people please….

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• Anonymous in the UK // Jan 10, 2009 at 9:10 pm

  Hello,

  I have had a handful. This is what I recently get on my email. The Money is great but as I have seen in my life this is the worst of all. Shown below;

  From: KELVIN WILLIAMS
  To: [email redacted]
  Sent: Friday, 9 January, 2009 1:06:58
  Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED

  Attn: [name redacted],

  This is to acknowledge the receipt of the order from the Federal Ministry Of Finance, in respect with the provision act of decree 114 of the 1999 constitution; I am directed to inform you that your payment verification and confirmations is correct. Therefore, we are happy to inform you that arrangements have been concluded to effect your payment as soon as possible and in our bid to transparency.

  It is my pleasure to inform you that ATM Card Number; 4278763100030014 have been approved in your favor. Your Personal Identification Number is 2900. The ATM Card Value is $11 MILLION USD Only. You are advised that a maximum withdrawal value of $5,000.00 USD is permitted on withdrawal per Day and we are duly Inter Switch and you can make withdrawal in any Inter Switch location and ATM Center of your choice.

  As stated in Mr. Mueller’s Email to you the delivery charges is only $110. As soon as payment is confirmed we shall immediately dispatch your package and email you with the DHL tracking numbers so as for you to be able to track your package online and know when to be at home to receive it. Please be informed that the ATM card and the pin would be enclosed in the envelope and you can make withdrawals from the moment you receieve the package.

  You will have to make the payment of $110 available to this office using Western union money transfer with the my secretary’s informations as stated below.

  Receivers Name: Alen Wright
  Address: 3 marine road apapa
  City: Lagos
  State: Lagos
  Country: Nigeria
  Test Question: Favourite colour
  Answer: Blue
  Amount: $110

  As soon as payment is made do send an email with the 10-Digit MTCN numbers so that we can proceed with dispatching of your package without wasting time. Be rest assured that your $110 is the only payment you will have to make for the delivery of the ATM card and nothing more.

  Looking forward to hearing from you.

  Kindest Regards,

  Thanks as we wait to hear from you.

  Mr. Kelvin Williams.
  Telephone Numbers: +234-702-550-3074

  Some More;
  Another email the day before that is;
  

  From: robert. mueller
  Sent: Thursday, 8 January, 2009 5:38:09
  Subject: FBI Director Robert S.Mueller III.

  Attn: Beneficiary,

  This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr Frank Nweke, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of
  Fedex,Ibrahim Sule,Larry Christopher, Puppy Scammers are impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation. During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment.

  Therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry Of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by cordinating your payment in total USD$11,000.000.00 in an ATM CARD which you can use to withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a maximum of $4000 to $5000 United States Dollars daily. You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD.

  Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation is involved in this transaction, you have to be rest assured for this is 100% risk free it is our duty to protect the American Citizens. All I want you to do is to contact the ATM CARD CENTER via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $160.00 only and note that your Approval Slip which contains details of the agent who will process your transaction.

  CONTACT INFORMATION
  NAME: Kelvin Williams
  EMAIL: williamskelvin2000@yahoo.cn
  Telephone: +234-702-958-3788

  Do contact Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTRE with your details:

  FULL NAME:
  HOME ADDRESS:
  TELL:
  CELL:
  CURRENT OCCUPATION:
  BANK NAME:

  So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment informations which you’ll use in making payment of $160.00 via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your Approval Slip after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay.

  We order you get back to this office after you have contacted the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.

  Thanks and hope to read from you soon.

  FBI Director Robert S.Mueller III.

  Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possesion of your ATM CARD, you are hereby adviced only to be in contact with Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.

  I went to the police here in London, United Kingdom and looking further I feel not easy.

  Please change my names shown above with the letters.

  [name redacted]

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• sheldon // Feb 4, 2009 at 10:39 am

  I have received the alot of this emails too. Its really a bad problem because, I receive to too three a day. Even when it marked as spam they us another email address to send this. There should be a way to catch this and stop it.

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• tj // Apr 10, 2009 at 12:44 am

  i have several of these seems as though the goverment could stop all of this with a simple virus returned to these people like maybe the plague

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• no // May 7, 2009 at 9:12 am

  i get this email alot even today 8/5/09 it is pissing me off, i am considering changin email address

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  • Brian // May 7, 2009 at 9:20 am

    Before you do that let me tell you why you're getting spam. I google'd your email address and I found it on a website called SoleGFX – that's why you started to receive spam. After someone spidered that site and harvested the emails the list was probably sold to scammers.

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• tree // May 9, 2009 at 12:56 pm

  its an absolute disgrace that people can pretend to be the F.B.I. they should be arrested for impostering and scamming innocent people out of hard earned cash disgraceful

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  • Brian // May 9, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    I’ve said this before elsewhere – the FBI is very much aware that this is going on … do you think they wouldn’t try to get these folks arrested if they could?

    This is happening overseas where the FBI has no authority. And the international authorities only get interested when people lose money.

    Brian

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    • derbyiter // Oct 1, 2010 at 6:00 pm

      Brian,
      You have just ruin my day ! Barstead, i was really looking forward to the fbi giving me something after waiting so long ,o f which i have never ever worked with them …. Gee bro ya upset me now. I am gonna cry for the rest of today and it’s only early here too !

      But in good faith,mate. hope the experts do one day track these assholes down. Maybe after they give up in attacking the rest of the world ? They could start something with these wankers too.

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• Junker // Jun 5, 2009 at 10:25 am

  I got such a message too, but it’s easy to see that it is a spam .

  1, It is not the duty of the director of the FBI to send such a message. they only try to use the Milgram effect.

  2, If they are from the FBI, why dont they have their own E-mail adress like : Robertmueller@FBI.gov

  3 If it’s send by the FBI why is it so many mistakes in it.

  I wonder how many people get caught by such a message.

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  • Brian // Jun 5, 2009 at 10:34 am

    My thought is that they are playing on the fears of people … an authority figure speaks to them and that puts the fear of God into them – they think they have to do whatever it is that the person (authority figure or not) tells them to do. There is more to it than that, of course…

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• Zhongren Du // Jul 19, 2009 at 8:48 pm

  Is this FBI duty to stop scam email?

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  • Brian // Jul 19, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    Most of these spam emails that are scams do not originate inside the USA. This makes it hard for the FBI to do anything about them.

    Also from what I understand there are so many of these scam emails around that the authorities are generally only interested in cases where there are monetary losses.

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• ALICE JAMES // Oct 8, 2009 at 8:17 pm

  HELLO MY NAME IS ALICE JAMES.I HAVE BEEN SENT LETTERS FROM YOU ABOUT YOU INVESTIGATEING A CITUATION THAT IS GOING ON AND AM WONDERING IF I AM TO DO AS YOU HAVE ASKED ME TO DO IN THE LETTERS THAT YOU WROTE TO ME.I BELEIVE THIS TO BE A SCAM YET I AM NOT SURE THE LETTERS ARE FROM THE FBI ALONG WITH YOUR PICTURE.PLEASE GET BACK TO ME AND LET ME KNOW WHAT I AM TO DO.ALICE JAMES/[...]

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  • Brian // Oct 8, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    The letters are not from the FBI. People are pretending to be the FBI in order to try to manipulate you and to defraud you. Delete the emails and move on.

    See http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel08/tipline_01…

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• Kevin // Jun 14, 2010 at 5:31 pm

  Yeah wlell I hope FBI or somebody does something to stop this scam

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  • Brian // Jun 14, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    I'm quite certain that the FBI know about the scams.

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• Gail Skaggs // Jul 6, 2010 at 4:32 am

  I have received several of these exact emails along with the multitudes of others over the years. It is amazing the cycles they travel. What makes me the most angry is that these people can work…and need to grow up and get a life and real job, where my husband was forced into disabilty and cannot, so it is like a constant slap in the face to us. I am the pastor at one of our community churches and all we would like to do is to be able to get ahead, not fooled.

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• Rodney Wirsta // Aug 29, 2010 at 5:16 pm

  Hi from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
  I just received a copy of the e-mail at the top of this page, so I googled “Robert S. Mueller III” and it brought me to this website! Nice to know I am not singled out for this offer. LOL They sent me this same deal 6 times in the real mail so now they decided to go through my e-mail address! Hope nobody has ever given out their banking information because that would be deadly! Be alert everyone and keep reporting these kinds of scams: they hate it!

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• Alicia Olvera // Feb 12, 2011 at 1:15 pm

  This is the one I received… I noticed all the errors and knew it was a scam…. People please be careful… Never give out your personal information.

  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
  Ref: FBI/DC/25/11

  Attention: Fund Beneficiary,
  This is an official advice from the FBI foreign remittance/telegraphic dept. it has come to
  our notice that bank of Nigeria has released 10,500,000.00 U.S dollars into bank of
  America in your name as the beneficiary, by Inheritance means. The bank of Nigeria
  knowing fully well that they do not have enough facilities to effect this payment from the
  united kingdom to youraccount, used what we know as a “secret diplomatic transit
  payment” (S.T.D.P) to pay this fund through wire transfer, they used this means to
  complete the payment.

  They are still waiting for confirmation from you on the already transferred funds, which
  were made in direct transfer so that they can do final crediting to your account. Secret
  diplomatic payments are not made unless the funds are related to terrorist activities why
  must your payment be made in secret transfer, if your transaction is legitimate, if you are
  not a terrorist, then why did you not receive the money directly into your account? This is
  a pure coded means of payment which we have had in the past has always been related to
  terrorist acts, we do not want you to get into trouble as soon as these funds reflect in your
  account, so it is our duty as a world wide commission to correct this little problem before
  this fund will be credited into your personal account.

  Due to the increased difficulty and unnecessary scrutiny by the Uk/Usa authorities when
  funds come from outside of America, and the Middle East, the F.B.I crime commission
  has stopped the transfer on its way to deliver payment of $10,500,000.00 through a
  secured diplomatic transit account (S.D.T.A). We govern and oversee funds Transfer for
  the World Bank and the rest of the world. We advice you contact us immediately, as the
  funds have been stopped and are being held in our custody until you can be able to
  provide us with a diplomatic immunity seal of transfer (dist) within 3 days from the
  world local bank that authorize the transfer to certify that the funds that you are about to
  receive from Nigeria are terrorist/drug free else we shall have cause to cross and impound
  the payment, however, we shall release the funds immediately we receive this legal
  documents .

  ——————————————————————————–
  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, because of the
  amount involved, we want to make sure that the legitimacy of the fund you are about to
  receive is not in doubt whatsoever. Note!! the fund is in the Bank of America right now,
  but we have ask them not to credit the fund to you yet, because we need a solid proof and
  verifications from you before releasing the funds, to this regards, you are to re-assure and
  proof to us that what you are about to receive is clean and legitimate by sending to us FBI
  Identification Record and also Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer(DIST) to certify
  that the fund is not for terrorism/money laundering. You are to forward the documents to
  us immediately if you have it in your possession, if you dont have it let us know so that
  we can direct your where to get it.

  This Documents are to be issued to you from the World Local Bank that Authorized the
  transfer, so get back to us immediately if you dont have the document so that we will
  inform you the particular place to obtain the document because we have come to realize
  that the fund was Authorized by the bank that initialized the transfer Identification
  Record and Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer(DIST) often referred to as a Criminal
  History Record or Rap Sheet, is a listing of certain information taken from fingerprint
  submissions retained by the FBI in connection with arrests and, in some instances, federal
  employment,naturalization, or military service. These conditions is Valid until 31st of
  March 2011 after we shall take actions on canceling the payment and then charge you for
  illegally moving funds out of Nigeria.

  Guarantee: funds will be released on confirmation of the document.
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  Final instruction:
  60fCredit payment instruction: irrevocable credit guarantee
  61eBeneficiary has full power when validation is cleared
  62 Beneficiaries bank in Usa/outside can only release funds-
  62 Upon confirmation from the world bank/united nations.
  64 Bearers must clear bank protocol and validation request
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  NOTE: We have asked for the above documents to make available the most complete and
  up-to date records possible for the enhancement of public safety welfare and security of
  Society while recognizing the importance of individual privacy rights. If you fail to
  provide the Documents to us, we will charge you and take our proper action against you
  for not proofing to us the legitimacy of the fund you are about to receive.

  The United States Department of Justice Order 556-73 establishes rules and regulations
  for the subject of an FBI Identification Record to obtain a copy of his or her own Record
  for review. The FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division processes
  these requests to check illegal activities in U.S and outside. An individual may request a
  copy of his or her own FBI Identification record for personal review or to challenge
  information on the Record. Other reasons, individual may request a copy of his or her
  own Identification Record may include international adoption or to satisfy a requirement
  to live or work in a foreign country or receive funds from another country
  (i.e.,Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer, letter of good conduct, criminal history
  background,etc.)
  FBI Director
  Robert S. Mueller

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• william // May 5, 2011 at 3:59 pm

  i had to of those promblems happen to me! i didnt send them money, but my info.. what should i do??

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• ellen gray // Jun 14, 2011 at 7:16 pm

  i get them oftn and i reply quote =that all my mail is being moniterd andforward to f.b.i and they are getting less and less so i fellim up on it thanks

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