Federal Bureau of Investigation
Field Intelligence Groups J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C.


Attention: Beneficiary,

We sincerely apologized for sending you this sensitive information via e-mail instead of a certified mail, post-mail, phone or face to face conversation, it's due to the urgency and importance of the security information of our citizenry, i am Special Agent Mark Giuliano from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Field Intelligence Groups (FIGs). We intercepted two consignment boxes at JFK Airport, New York. The boxes were scanned and they contained large sum of money ($4.1 million) and also some backup documents which bears your name as the Beneficiary/Receiver of the money. Investigation was carried out on the diplomat that accompanied the boxes into the United States and he said that he was to deliver the fund to your residence as overdue payment owed to you by the Federal Republic of Nigeria through the security company in United Kingdom.

After cross-checking all legal documents in the boxes, we found out that your consignment was lacking an important document and we can't release the boxes to the diplomat until the document is found, we have no other option than to confiscate your consignment.

According to Internal Revenue Code (IRC) in Title 26 also contain reporting requirement on a Form 8300, Report of Cash Payment Over $10,000 Received in a Trade or Business, money laundering activity may violate 18 USC §1956, 18 USC 1957, 18 USC 1960, and provision of Title 31, and 26 USC 6050I of the United States Code (USC), this section will discuss only those money laundering and currency violation under the jurisdiction of IRS, your consignment lacks proof of ownership certificate from the joint team of IRS and IRC, therefore you need to reply back immediately for direction on how to procure this certificate to enable us relieved the charge of evading the law on you, which is a punishable offense in the United States.

You are required to reply back within 72hours or you will be prosecuted in a court of law for money laundering, also you are instructed to desist from further contact with any bank(s) or person(s) in Nigeria or the United Kingdom or any part of the world regarding your payment because your consignment has been confiscated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation here in the United States.

Yours In Service,
Special Agent Mark Giuliano
Regional Deputy Director
Field Intelligence Groups (FIGs)

Just pay the income tax and you'll be golden.

Just send me your SSN, credit card numbers, and your birth date.

Then wait by the phone, I will call soon...and you will be rich!

Fish on...

Todd

Dam, why does everybody else have all the luck

All I got today was an inheritance of $850,000. Some people have all the luck.

I wonder do they really think people will fall for this stuff ???.. also wonder how many do?

You guys are small change. They offered me 9 million.

A few weeks later another fine salesman offered me
a few million but I told him I was too busy spending
the first 9M so give it to someone else.

Sorry, he musta called you,

fp

Oh yea, the old 419 scam. People due fall for it. I know of an owner of a title & escrow company that fell for it. The escrow trust fund account & the operating account were both cleaned out. The woman lost everything- her company, residence and anything that could be sold to compensate the bonding company. Since she had a fiduiary responsility regarding the trust fund anything she owned could be attached. She barely avoided federal prison. I think because she was about 60 yrs old & had nothing left to sell she wasn' t sent to jail.
I read a book about the boiler rooms in Nigeria that crank out these emails. Thousands are sent out weekly so if there's only a slight return of replies, it's enough suckers to keep teams of these scammers fed. Usually when a reply is received, it's handed off to a more sophisticated scammer up the food chain. Organized crime ran out of internet coffee shops.
At a company I worked for when fax machines were cutting edge, these type of bogus faxes would print out saying that they wanted to wire money to your trust account & you get to keep 25% so they needed your wire info. Some folks bit.