Oh NO ! I'm being investigated by the FBI - if I pay them, they'll give me an ATM card. LMAO

[Morning Dew]

Creative use of the English language!

Here's that email:

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, Paul Adim, 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 coordinating your payment in
total USD$11,000.000.00 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 $360.00 only and note that your Approval Slip which
contains details of the agent who will process your transaction.

CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: MR. DANIEL STOCK
EMAIL: [e-mail]

Do contact Mr. Daniel Stock of the ATM CARD CENTER with your details:

FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
TELL:
CELL:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
BANK NAME:
AGE:

So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment
information's which you'll use in making payment of $360.00 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 Stock 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.

I rarely look at my spam so I hadn't seen this particular scam before.
There was another ATM scam in there as well.

Dear Sir/Madam,

NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT VIA ATM CARD

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract file
presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment
due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to
you in respect to your contract payment.

After the Board of director's meeting held in Abuja,we have resolved in finding
a solution to your problem.We have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD
PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe, America, Africa and Asia Pacific, This is part of an
instruction/mandate passed by the Senate inrespect to overseas contract payment
and debt re-scheduling.

We will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw via ATM MACHINE in
any part of the world,and the maximum daily limit is ($15,000.00).

However, Note that this method of payment will be granted if it is acceptable to
you for the release of your contract entitlement. In View of this, you are
advised to contact the Director (CBN, IRD, and ATM) DR.Frank Williams for
further information with the following contact details:


DR.FRANK WILLIAMS
DIRECTORS FOR FOREIGN OPERATIONS.
Telephone line: [phone] xxxx
Email: [e-mail]

If you like to receive your ATM CARD, Kindly reconfirm your

(1) Your Full Name.
(2) Full residential address.
(3) Phone And Fax Number.
(4) Occupation.
(5) Age

We shall be expecting to receive your information as you have to stop any
further communication with anybody or office.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Best Regards,

Dr. Frank WIlliams

Woo Hoo - I can withdraw 15 grand a day !!!

[tkmorris]

1. Sounds legit

I say go for it.

[Morning Dew]

5. i really enjoyed the idea that they'll help me with my illegal transaction.

and what the heck are puppy scammers?

[Muttocracy]

2. I love the agentfirstlastname@... address top secret! :-)

[Morning Dew]

3. I x'd out part of the email address and phone number.

[Muttocracy]

4. I meant the [e-mail] one

[Morning Dew]

6. oops missed that one !

I've got to read my spam more often - I could be wealthy soon!