I was casually looking through my spam folder in my email account to make sure non of my computer-monitoring services were accidentally getting sent into the wrong folder. One email caught my attention – it read, “GET BACK TO MR KELVIN WILLIAMS ONLY (APPROVED BY FBI)” Intrigued, I looked into it further and read that the “FBI” was trying to get in contact with me about a substantial amount of money that I won. If I emailed them my current account numbers, they would graciously deposit it for me.
These scams are a common thing to find on the internet and because they’re still being emailed makes me believe that people are falling for them. Never reply to these emails or provide any sort of information that will be able to identify you. Any email asking you for money in promise of money and/or asking for account information are always going to end up in scam. As much as I’d wish a far-off kingdom somehow found me and willed millions of dollars was true – it isn’t.
If you’ve received an email about an account that you manage online but aren’t sure about the validity, contact the vendor by phone. Most of the time this will help you determine if you’re trying to be scammed online. There’s millions of these emails out on the internet essentially creating a drag-net of information gathering for malicious purposes. Be careful with your sensitive information and never share private bank information via email.
Here’s the mentioned email in it’s entirety below.
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Attn: Beneficiary,
This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr Frank Nweke, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of Fedex,Ibrahim Sule,Larry Christopher, Puppy Scammers are impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation. During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment.
Therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry Of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by cordinating your payment in total USD$10.5million in an ATM CARD which you can use to withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a maximum of $10000 United States Dollars daily. You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD.
Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation is involved in this transaction, you have to be rest assured for this is 100% risk free it is our duty to protect You. All I want you to do is to contact the ATM CARD CENTER via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $350 only and note that your Approval Slip which contains details of the agent who will process your transaction.
CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: Kelvin Williams
Do contact Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTRE with your details:
FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
TELL:
CELL:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
BANK NAME:
So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment informations which you’ll use in making payment of $350 via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your Approval Slip after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay. Please if you know you cannot be able to afford the $350 for the delivery of your ATM card via FedEx then do not bother to contact Mr. Kelvin Williams as we are at the End of the year and he should be busy with some other things.
We order you get back to this office after you have contacted the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.
Thanks and hope to read from you soon.
FBI Director Robert S.Mueller III.
Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possesion of your ATM CARD, you are hereby adviced only to be in contact with Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation. “
kelvinwilliams31@sify.com