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An Email with the Subject "FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC." was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sat, 04 Jun 2016 11:56:00 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as FBI OFFICE <.fbi.usa@train.ocn.ne.jp>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crime Division.
FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC.
J.Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20535, United States
E-MAIL { FBIPHASE1@consultant.com}
ATTENTION: FUND BENEFICIARY
This e-mail has been issued to you in order to officially inform you that we have completed an
investigation on an International Payment in which was issued to you by an International Lottery
Company, in their statement they stated that with the help of their newly developed technology
(International Monitoring Network System) we discovered that your e-mail address was automatically
selected by an Online Balloting System, this has legally won you the sum of $2.4million 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 INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT.
Normally, it will take up to 5 business days for an INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT by your
local bank. We have successfully notified this company on your behalf that funds are to be
withdrawn from a registered bank within the world wide, so as to enable you cash the cheque
instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of $2.4million USD has been deposited
with IMF.
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 with IMF you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the
Lottery Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in Cotonou, Benin Republic. According
to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the following,
(1) Deposit Fee's (IMF INTERNATIONAL CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE)
(2) Shipping Fee's (This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's Cheque to your home address)
The total amount for everything is $95.00 We have tried our possible best to indicate that this
$95.00 should be deducted from your winning prize but we found out that the fund have already been
deposited IMF 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 In order to proceed
with this transaction, you will be required to contact the agent in-charge (Mr. Steven James) via
e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:
CONTACT IMF AGENT NAME: Mr. Steven James
E-MAIL:{steven.james574@yahoo.com}
PHONE NUMBER: +229-982-124-29
You will be required to
E-mail him with the following information:
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
COUNTRY:
ZIP CODE:
TRANSACTION CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram details on how to send the
required $95.00 in order to immediately ship your prize of $2.4million USD via INTERNATIONAL
CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT from IMF, also include the following transaction code in order for him to
immediately identify this transaction: QW2948-910.
This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is authorizing you to pay
the required $95.00 ONLY to Mr. Steven James via information, in which he shall send to you,
Mr. JAMES COMEY
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI)
Yours in Service, Photograph of Director
JAMES COMEY, 111 JAMAS COMEY
III Director Office of Public Affairs