Good morning!
Take your time and read this – Carefully:
“Subj: DO CONTACT MR.KELVIN WILLIAMS FOR YOUR ATM CARD DELIVERY
Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Daniel McMullen (Special Agent in Charge)
Attn: Beneficiary,
This is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly investigated it with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors. We the Federal Bureau Of Investigation want you to stop further communication with any Impostors claiming to be official. 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 Nigeria on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in total $5,900,000.00(Five Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars).
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. We the Federal Bureau Of Investigation want you 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 $200 and note that your Approval Slip which contains details of the agent who will process your transaction.
CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: Mr. Kelvin Williams
Address: 18 Koffi Crescent Apapa Lagos Nigeria
Do contact Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTER with your details, and you full information So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment information which you'll use in making payment of $200 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.
Daniel McMullen
Special Agent in Charge
Criminal Division
FBI Los Angeles
1000 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
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. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTER 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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This message may contain privileged/confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity addressed above. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately if you have received this email by mistake and delete this email from your system.”
Did anything in that little epistle look…odd, to you?
Some of us are laughing out loud: “That’s the most ridiculous, pathetic attempt at a scam that I can imagine!” Agreed, but would you react the same way if it suddenly showed up in your “inbox?”
Would you react the same way if you were alone, or desperate, or worried about money, or not particularly “savvy” in the ways of cyberspace or just a decent, trusting human being? Maybe.
Maybe not.
The reason I’ve put us all through this is that we hear about scams all the time but, often, never actually see one, so now we have. And if some of us are still laughing, remember this: The “bad guys” only have to get 1-2 of us to “bite” and BOOM! – Nice Day for the Bad Guys!
BAD DAY for a decent, trusting human being.
Most of us aren’t going to wake up tomorrow suddenly having evolved into slick, sophisticated scam-detectors, so let me ask this of you:
If you get something – Anything! – That seems to be offering you something wonderful in exchange for information from you, just stop! Don’t do anything. I don’t care if it’s an e-mail or a phone call or something in the mail or or or…Just stop, and don’t do anything.
Then, find somebody you trust to talk it over with - If push-comes-to-shove, send it to me - But usually a family member or a buddy or a neighbor or whoever will be easier to get a hold of, and ask them what they think. If what you’ve received is a legitimate offer or promotion or sales attempt, it can wait a bit; if it seems to want you to do something RIGHT NOW, then it can wait… forever.
OK? As we say on Koffi Street in Nigeria, “Hope to read from you soon!”
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