Dammit, the FBI is putting a lock on a ten million dollar transfer from Nigeria.

[Baitball Blogger]

All I have to do is give them my bank information and they'll forward my money.

Passing this on to everyone so you know what a scam e-mail looks like:

rom: FBI <[e-mail]> [Add to Address Book]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: F.B.I NEED SOLID PROOF FROM YOU BECAUSE OF THE FUND YOU ARE ABOUT TO RECEIVE?
Date: Mar 13, 2014 1:53 AM
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/MY/16/214


Attention: Fund Beneficiary,


This is an official advice from the FBI foreign remittance/telegraphic dept., it has come to our notice that a bank from Nigeria district has released Ten Million United States dollars into Bank of America in your name as the beneficiary, by Inheritance means. The C.B.N knowing fully well that they do not have enough facilities to effect this payment from the united kingdom to your account, 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 was 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 .Records, which we have had with, this method of payment 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 worldwide 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 authorities when funds come from outside of Europe, and the Middle East, the F.B.I bank commission for Europe has stopped the transfer on its way to deliver payment of Ten Million United States dollars to debit your reserve account and pay you 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 three days from the world local bank that authorize the transfer from where the funds was transferred from to certify that the funds that you are about to receive from Nigeria are antiterrorist/drug free or we shall have cause to cross and impound the payment, 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 involve, we want to make sure is a clean and legal money you are about to receive because we have to carry out our investigations first before releasing the fund to you. Note that the fund is in the JP Morgan chase 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, if you don’t have it let us know so that we will direct and inform you where to obtain the document and send to us so that we will ask the bank holding the funds to go ahead Crediting your account immediately.


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 don’t have 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 9th of March, 2014 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.


Final instruction:


60f Credit payment instruction: irrevocable credit guarantee
61e Beneficiary has full power when validation is cleared
64 Bearers must clear bank protocol and validation request
------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------------------
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 the FBI will charge you and take our proper action against you for not proofing to us the legitimate 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 UK and United States. 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 an 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 back ground.etc.) DIRECT YOUR REPLY TO: [e-mail]


Yours In Service,
In God We Trust
F.B.I. Director
James. B. Comey
Federal Bureau of Investigation

[DetlefK]

1. I once was offered money because I'm such a good, honest muslim.

He's muslim and has to get rid of money, but wants to see it put to good use.
yaddayaddayadda
He wants to donate it.
yaddayaddayadda
As I am such a true-believing muslim myself, he wants to give that money to me.

Funny thing is: I'm no muslim.



And there once was a mail about two kids who lost their parents and who are moving from Africa to South-America and who can't inherit the fortune of their parents just yet so they need a fund-manager in the mean-time. Or something like that.

[LibertyLover]

2. I've gotten notices from The World Bank

that they have money for me from a deceased related person to me in Nigeria. I keep wanting to write back and tell them that since I work for The Bank Group, I find it odd that I wasn't contacted via my work e-mail. But that would just encourage them I guess. I also wonder why these scam artists don't invest a little money, hire a native speaker and writer of American English and clean up the awful prose of their scam e-mails. I bet they'd make more money if the writing weren't so darned clunky. Oh yeah, and ditch that Yours in service, In God We Trust sign off.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Maybe you should offer to edit their emails....for a fee, of course.

Would love to see their reponse to that!!!!

[jsr]

7. I don't think they can afford the fee:

Nigeria boiler room

[malaise]

3. Last year I received an email telling me that

UK Tax folks had a refund for me and I should send certain information including credit card details. Since I have never worked in the UK I knew it was BS from the get go.
Phone 'scammers' have called us a few times, but we have a standard response. Our phone is monitored by local police, the FBI, Interpol and the NSA. We suggest you try someone else.

[jsr]

4. You wanna go to jail for illegally moving funds out of Nigeria?

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I am sure that NSA will get right on this.

Maybe you should give them a heads up that NSA tracks all their emails?

[Nye Bevan]

8. "[e-mail]"?

Yeah, seems legit.

Or maybe not.

Registrant Name:Frank Nze
Registrant Organization:Frank Nero LLC
Registrant Street: 24 Sholabumi Street, Aguda-Surulere
Registrant City:Lagos
Registrant State/Province:Lagos
Registrant Postal Code:23401
Registrant Country:NG
Registrant Phone:[phone]
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email:[e-mail]
Admin ID I_30515379
Admin Name:Frank Nze
Admin Organization:Frank Nero LLC
Admin Street: 24 Sholabumi Street, Aguda-Surulere
Admin City:Lagos
Admin State/Province:Lagos
Admin Postal Code:23401
Admin Country:NG
Admin Phone:[phone]
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email:[e-mail]
Tech ID I_30515379
Tech Name:Frank Nze
Tech Organization:Frank Nero LLC
Tech Street: 24 Sholabumi Street, Aguda-Surulere
Tech City:Lagos
Tech State/Province:Lagos
Tech Postal Code:23401
Tech Country:NG
Tech Phone:[phone]

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=f-b-i-gov.org

[Baitball Blogger]

9. True cyber scammer, that one.

[Sheepshank]

13. Ohhhh a phone Number!!

I'd love to hear a recording of that "asking for clarification" from Agent Fucku from F-B-I.COM, phone conversation

[William Seger]

10. If you have any domain names registered...

... watch out for the Chinese Domain Name Scam. I recently received emails about 2 of my domains saying that a company in China wanted to register those names (which I use as trademarks) in the .cn, .asia, .tw, etc. top level domains. They will tell you that you can't prevent the registrations, but you have the right to register them first so they're just being courteous to give you that opportunity -- at highly inflated prices, of course. If you get one of those, just delete it; there is no company trying to register those names. It seems this scam has been going for a while, but it appears to be picking up lately.

[onethatcares]

11. if the FBI would have put a lock on

the transfer of $365,000,000.00 to L Paul Bremer, that would have helped us all out.

[Romulox]

12. Lounge -----> nt

[LeftyMom]

14. I got one via snail mail once.

Nigerian stamps are pretty cool looking.