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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: finance.atmcard@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:56:16 -0000
Subject: Attn: Beneficiary
Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc
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, Dr. Philip Mogan, none officials of Oceanic
Bank, Zenith Banks, Barr. Derrick Smith, kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of
FedEx, Ibrahim Sule,Larry Christopher, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen, Dr. Philip
Mogan, 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 intotal USD$1million in an ATM CARD which you can use to
withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a
maximum of $4000 to $5000 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 the American Citizens. 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 $250.00 only and note
that your Approval Slip which contains details of the agent who will
process your transaction.
CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: MR. DANIEL SMITH
MOBILE NUMBER:+234-703-579-3908
EMAIL: finance.atmcard@yahoo.com.hk
Do contact Mr. Daniel Smith of the ATM CARD CENTRE with your details:
FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
TELL:
CELL:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
AGE:
So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment
informations which you'll use in making payment of $250.00 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.
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.
ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices
claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only
to be in contact with Mr. Daniel Smith 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.
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