Thursday 3 June 2010

Fake FBI letter about an $800,000 lottery win (so amateurish)

Anti-Terrorist And Monetory Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
Washington, DC USA


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 address 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 )

The total amount for everything is $450.00 (Four Hundred And Fifty US Dollars). We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $450.00 should be deducted from
your winning prize but we found out that the funds has already been deposited at Bank Of America and can not 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 Robert .F Tooth ) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find
appropriate contact information:

CONTACT AGENT NAME: MR Robert .F Tooth
E-MAIL ADDRESS: roberttooth@hotmail.com

You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT PHONE NUMBER:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
MONTHLY INCOME:
TRANSACTION CODE: TF 112E091

You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram details on how to send the required $450.00 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 (TF 112E091) in order for him to
immediately identify this transaction.


This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $450.00 ONLY to MR Robert .F Tooth 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).


Mr. Thomas Clarkson
Special Agent.
Washington DC FBI.
Room, 7367
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001


Please find below an authorized signature which has been signed by the FBI Director- Robert Mueller, also below is the FBI NSB (National Security Branch
Seal)

NOTE: In order to ensure your check gets delivered to you ASAP, you are advised to immediately contact (MR Robert .F Tooth) via contact information provided
above and make the required payment of $450.00 to the information in which he shall provide to you.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I received this same letter of which I am tempted to submit to the real FBI Headquarters. The only thing different about it,is that they are using different information when regarding address and contact name. There are two numbers... one a phone and the other a fax. Interestingly, the fax number begins with the numbers 666 and is inoperable. There is someone answering the phone on the other end though, with the salutation of "FBI Headquarters",,,what a joke. I would love to see these people get busted soon!

Anonymous said...

I received this email today. It is obvious that it's a scam, but I could see some gullible people falling for it and giving out their information.

Anonymous said...

I too have received a like letter only more threatening (I could go to jail if I didn't respond) Should I send this on to the true FBI, and what e-mail should I use. These people have got to be stopped.
Thank you.

Madame Arcati said...

Yes you should send it to the FBI but you'd need to Google the organisation for a contact address.

Anonymous said...

I got this letter too! I responed with the word FUNNY!! and they had the nurve to write me back and say "Whats funny? your winnings are real ok" can you beleive that! I wrote them back again and said it's all over the enternet that this a scam already. What fools they are def going to prison soon FBI is on to them by now!!

Anonymous said...

I have gotten this letters several times! Today They even spelled words wrong!

Anonymous said...

I got the letter today. Only thing different is the name of the contact person. They wanted 350 bucks.You can google 419 advance fee fraud. The sad part is some people really fall for this. Thats why they keep doing it. Most are from Nigeria. I am going to write them back, sometimes they will write me back and argue with me!