Had this rather unintelligable one come in today. Are they trying to scare me into acting with improper use of capitalization?

Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division.

Federal Bureau Of Investigation.

Seattle, Washington.

Telephone Number : [deleted].


ATTENTION: 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 your ATM-CARD is currently with the (G.P.S.) Global Postal Service in Nigeria.

We have ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to contact FedEx, Dhl, Ups, First Bank, Zenith Bank and other firms to release the bank draft and Atm cards to the GPS (Regular Mail Service), So that they can be mailed out to the rightful owners, because there are too many complains/Rip Off Report coming to the desk of Federal Bureau Of Investigation that people are not getting their Instrument to cash their funds and gratuity, e.g p eople are not getting their Bank Draft and Atm Cards due to fact that people are not meeting up with the required demands and amount imposed by some of this delivery companies, firms and other sectors and constant require of fees that are too much for people to handle or pay.

We have completed this investigation and we have verified the entire transaction to be Safe and 100% risk free, due to the fact that we have been assured that your ATM CARD will be delivered to you once your Full Name and Address is confirmed. Delivery of your ATM-CARD is free!!! You only need to pay $95 for insurance only.

Therefore, you are instructed to contact the Global Postal Service with the Information below:

Full Name: - Mr. willson Eddy.

Direct Phone Number: [deleted]

Valid Contact: - [deleted]


You will be required to e-mail him with your information such as:

FULL NAME:

ADDRESS:

COUNTRY:

CITY:

STATE:

ZIP CODE:

DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:

Regards.

FBI Director.

Robert Mueller.


NOTE: In order to ensure your ATM-CARDS gets delivered to you ASAP, you are advised to immediately contact Mr. willson Eddy via contact information provided above. :

That is too funny.

Let's see, ATM cards ship from Montana, (I'm guessing), then get routed to Nigeria, and they want you to pay $95 for insurance to get them back, even though the bank will ship you a new one for free.

I know it's a fake scam, but just using simple logic, what idiots are falling for this?

Yeah um.. or you can report the card lost and get a new one issued. :)

This one begins with some truth in advertising! Damn that spellcheck! :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: barr asiah binti
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:53 AM
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONDS.


Dearest ,

I have an incomprehensible business proposition to share with you. I am Barrister Nor Asiah Binti Jamail practicing with Bahari Choy Nongchik & Co Solicitors here in Malaysia, a solicitor at law and personal Attorney to Mr. Dennis Peters a nationalist of your country, who was hereinafter called my client.


My deceased client made some fixed deposit valued (Seven Million Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand)US $7. 750,000.00 Dollars, in a finance firm in Malaysia . Upon maturity legal responsibilities, I have been given deadline mandate by the Bank Management to provide the next of kin and beneficiary to the fund hence failure to that, the fund will be confiscated and declared unserviceable by the Bank.

Regards to this, I have exhaustively made efforts to locate the next of kin/beneficiary, or any relative of my deceased client, which was not successful. My purpose of contacting you is to seek your consent and to present you with necessary and legal documents to the bank as the next of kin/beneficiary of my late client's fund since you have the same last name and country of origin.


I want you to know that I have everything planned out so that we shall come out successfully. I will prepare you with the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin/beneficiary to the fund interlaid that will enable onward transfer to your local account in your country. We are going to adopt a legalized method in the whole matter that will protect you from any infraction of the law. You will be given 40% of the fund as soon as this transaction is completed.

However if the proposal does not conform with your Ethics please, do accept my sincere apologies. If on the contrary, could you kindly open a correspondence with me, after which I shall furnish you with more information on this operation.


Thanks,
Bar. Nor Asiah Binti Jemail

The elderly and vulnerable most likely. Over here we have any number of consumer advice programmes (e.g. Watchdog) highlighting ridiculous scams such as this, yet people do still fall foul of them.

On the other hand, one of the worst scams presently around in the UK is the one sponsored by the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) whereby they have deliberately misrepresented white asbestos as being as dangerous as blue and brown. Unscrupulous contractors have latched on to this and are charging industry, commerce, and the general public thousands of pounds for "decontamination work" that simply doesn't need to be done. No wonder they don't like this site.

if that was truly from the "FBI", it would be filled with legal jargon that most of us couldn't understand.....red flag number 1

if it was truly from the "FBI" you would have received an official notice from them. at that it probably would of been from the bank.....red flag number2

I dont understand, even the elderly cant be that lost? Could They? why not just call the bank.

the issue is 0 cost and if one idiot responds it is worth it. That is why they work. Send thousands or millions , send several different ones, get a handful of responses and you made money from nothing.

I got an idea for a new site. Nigerians type their scam letter into a form and hit the "make it english" button to get it translated. I bet i could make some $ with this idea :).

They already have one of those:

[Link: cnet.com]

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From my portfolio page.........

"800X 600 Templete-a fur a Crestrun TPMC-8X. Bork Bork Bork!"

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