Fake FBI anti-scam scam

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Not quite a Newb Joined: 04 May 2009 Posts: 22

Good day to all,

I want to share this with you as I'm sure others may receive it.
IT IS A SCAM, I checked the origin, it is from nigeria, anyway the email address to me sounds fake for FBI eventhough the location address & web address are correct.
Here is the message:
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From: "FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION"<[email protected]>
Subject: FBI PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:42:18 -0700

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONITORY CRIMES DIVISION
FBI HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE,
NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535-0001
Website: www.fbi.gov

Attention Beneficiary,

This is to bring to your notice that my office has taking over all the Money Transfer originated from any part of Africa and European countries as contract payment, Fund Inheritance or Lottery Winning due to Unauthorized/incapability of financial Institutions/security companies in releasing such huge sum of money result of Fraud, terrorist and money Laundry activities going on world wide.

We have been having series of meetings for the passed 7 months which ended 2 days ago with the then secretary General to the United Nations, central bank of Nigeria and world bank Officials This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the United Nations, central bank of Nigeria and world bank Officials have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$ 10.5 million each victim This includes every foreign contractor that may have not received his or her contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction, people who have inheritance to claim or international businesses that failed due to instability of Government in some part of Africa etc.

We found your name in our list as one of the beneficiaries and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed. You are advised to provide us with your full name, residential address, your direct phone and fax number, a copy of your passport or drivers' license.

Note that we do not see the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) in your payment file. And that has been the major reason why you have not been paid; so if you have it kindly include it in your information when replying this mail. And You can not be paid without the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) because it is a very important document. Finally, you are wisely advised to stop every communication with any office, bank as regards to your unclaimed fund as this office supersedes every other office involved in release of your unclaimed fund.

Regards

Bill Nicholson
Special Agent
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Be careful.

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:55 am

The appalling Grammar means that this was almost certainly produced by someone who is not a native English speaker. Could we have the full headers please.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

I love it!! I just had a bait going with one like this a few months back, I got into too many parts and was not able to keep all my response together. It was funny, my lad said he was Robert the director the the FBI, and I pretended to know him, and told him we met three years back when he was giving a lecture..lol..he went along with it, acted like he knew my family and wanted me to send 300.00 to someone in Nigeria for money that was mine. He reported he was over seeing the operation and it was legit...So funny, I messed with them both for about three weeks,and then told them off. His grammer was great!!lol

Not quite a Newb Joined: 04 May 2009 Posts: 22

Hello,

Here is the full header:

X-Message-Delivery: Vj0xLjE7dXM9MDtsPTA7YT0wO0Q9MjtTQ0w9NA==
X-Message-Status: n:0
X-SID-PRA: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION <[email protected]>
X-Message-Info: tJV2OfX5iRGy2y66uEsbU/xdU5nZ17wpBE4YZv52PvJczvBnh1zutbUBWWE5vMZV7ah3mOvrM7lw/pk6KprONgZ0WSXzt4Dr
Received: from smtpcom.263xmail.com ([211.150.64.24]) by col0-mc4-f40.Col0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:42:30 -0700
Received: from smtpcom.263xmail.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by smtpcom.263xmail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D41667992;
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:42:14 +0800 (CST)
X-ABS-CHECKED:0
X-KSVirus-check:0
Received: from User (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by smtpcom.263xmail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4D04102F4;
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:41:11 +0800 (CST)
X-SENDER-IP:41.189.6.245
X-LOGIN-NAME:[email protected]
X-ATTACHMENT-NUM:0
X-SENDER:[email protected]
Received: from User (unknown [41.189.6.245])
by smtpcom.263xmail.com (Postfix) whith ESMTP id 10419WIGFTR;
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:40:43 +0800 (CST)
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
From: "FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION"<[email protected]>
Subject: FBI PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:42:18 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Return-Path: [email protected]
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Oct 2009 09:42:32.0276 (UTC) FILETIME=[79851140:01CA5557]

Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:52 pm

I don't think this idiot is in Nigeria. If he is, he's using a Chinese email site. Most data in the headers points to China, and many of the headers are spoofed.

Quote:

X-Message-Delivery: Vj0xLjE7dXM9MDtsPTA7YT0wO0Q9MjtTQ0w9NA==
X-Message-Status: n:0
X-SID-PRA: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION <[email protected]>
X-Message-Info: tJV2OfX5iRGy2y66uEsbU/xdU5nZ17wpBE4YZv52PvJczvBnh1zutbUBWWE5vMZV7ah3mOvrM7lw/pk6KprONgZ0WSXzt4Dr
Received: from smtpcom.263xmail.com ([211.150.64.24]) by col0-mc4-f40.Col0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:42:30 -0700 OK, this is CST
Received: from smtpcom.263xmail.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) mail is going in circles between localhost and 263xmail.com;
by smtpcom.263xmail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D41667992; this may be the first valid received line (going from bottom up)
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:42:14 +0800 (CST) CST is -0700 not +0800
X-ABS-CHECKED:0
X-KSVirus-check:0
Received: from User (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by smtpcom.263xmail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4D04102F4;
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:41:11 +0800 (CST) CST is -0700 not +0800
X-SENDER-IP:41.189.6.245 nigeria, but non-standard entry
X-LOGIN-NAME:[email protected]
X-ATTACHMENT-NUM:0
X-SENDER:[email protected] .cn = china
Received: from User (unknown [41.189.6.245]) this is part of next line, which is forged
by smtpcom.263xmail.com (Postfix) whith ESMTP id 10419WIGFTR; (Computers can spell, idiots can't)
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:40:43 +0800 (CST) CST is -0700 not +0800
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
From: "FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION"<[email protected]>
Subject: FBI PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:42:18 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Return-Path: [email protected] invalid address
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Oct 2009 09:42:32.0276 (UTC) FILETIME=[79851140:01CA5557]

From a known valid header line (the first one at top, which is the last one and is added by the recipient's mail transfer agent)

Quote:

Received: from smtpcom.263xmail.com ([211.150.64.24]) by col0-mc4-f40.Col0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);

Quote:

Queried whois.onlinenic.com with "263xmail.com"...

Registrant:
Net263 Ltd. [email protected] +86.1084291263
Net263 Ltd.
13 East Chaoqian Road ,Chengqu City, Changping District,Beijing
Beijing,Beijing,CN 102200

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 7

I got this e-mail yesterday. It's kinda similar to the one the OP posted.

Subject: FBI OFFICE GET BACK TO US IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR OWN GOOD IF YOU DONT WANT US TO ARREST YOU AND JAIL YOU

Message body:

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 Website: www.fbi.gov

ATTENTION

This is an official advice from the fbi foreign Remittance / telegraphic dept.,it has come to our notice that the C.B.N Bank Nigeria district has released 10,500,000.00 US dollars into bank of America in your name as the beneficiary, by inheritance means. The C.B.N Bank Nigeria 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 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? 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 in the U.S.A, 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 security by the American 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 $10,500,000.00 to debit your reserve account and pay you through a secured diplomatic transit account (s.d.t.a). We govern
funds immediately we receive this legal documents.

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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. Be informed that the fund are now in United State in your name, but right now we have ask the bank not to release the fund to anybody that comes to them, unless we ask them to do so, because we have to carry out our investigations first before releasing the fund to you. Note that 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. So to this regards you are to re-assure and proof to us that what you are about to receive is a clean money by sending to us FBI Identification Record and also Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer(DIST) to satisfy to us that the money your about to receive is legitimate and real money.

You are to forward the documents to us immediately if you have it in your possession, 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, the Bank Of America to go ahead Crediting your account immediately. These 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 so that we will inform you the particular place to obtain the document in United Kingdom (U.K), because we have come to realize that the fund was Authorized by (H.S.B.C) Bank in London.

An FBI 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 Condition Is Valid until 10th day of Novenmber.2009 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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1. Credit payment instruction: irrevocable credit guarantee.
2. Beneficiary has full power when validation is cleared.
3. Beneficiaries bank in U.S.A., can only release funds.
4. Upon confirmation from the world bank / united nations.
5. 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 with the FBI 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 U.S.A.
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 Background, etc.)

THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.

ROBERT MUELLER

WASHINGTON DC
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 Website: www.fbi.gov