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Below is an email I received, one of thousands I get each year.
Most of them just annoy me by costing me a half second to recognize and delete, but this one made me laugh:
_______________________
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.
MR JAMES COMEY <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon 1/13/2014 6:14 PM
To: Undisclosed recipients:
.............................................................
MR JAMES COMEY
DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
Attn: Beneficiary,
Compliments of the day, I Wish to inform you that your Payment has been released and you will need to contact the payment Officer Mr. Rooney Josh with the information's as stated below. CONTACT INFORMATION NAME: Mr. Rooney Josh EMAIL: ( [email protected] ) Do contact Mr. Rooney Josh of the ATM PAYMENT CENTER with your details: FULL NAME: HOME ADDRESS: TELL: CELL:CURRENT OCCUPATION: : AGE: INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT/WORKING ID CARD.
Also please be informed that all necessary Documents has been put in place all you will have to do is to make sure you can be able to afford 105 USD for the Delivery of your Funds which is to be sent to you via an ATM SWIFT CARD using International Courier Service. We do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.
We guarantee receipt of your payment. This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed to citizens of American and also Asia and Europe which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared.
Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.
CALL HIM WITH THIS NUMBER +234-81 3169-2490
Regards,
MR JAMES COMEY
DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
________________________
The Funny part:
Yeah, right. The Director of the FBI wants to help me collect money that I did not know I had coming.
The Director of the FBI has an email address of chloe@blackgateone.com. Chloe must be his middle name.
The Director of the FBI apparently does not know my name since he did not use it, and apparently can't get my address and telephone number.
Judging by the grammar and phraseology, The Director of the FBI doesn't seem to have English as his native tongue.
The payment officer, Mr. Rooney Josh, has a Vietnamese email address- [email protected].vn. Must be a branch office, which explains the funny phone number.
The Tragic Part:
That we have so little common sense left amongst us that people actually fall for these scams with so many red flags contained in the very message itself. I'm not knocking your 95 year old grandma who thinks Truman is still President- I'm talking about functioning(?) adults.
Maybe the Gubburmint oughta do somethin to protect us!
Most of them just annoy me by costing me a half second to recognize and delete, but this one made me laugh:
_______________________
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.
MR JAMES COMEY <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon 1/13/2014 6:14 PM
To: Undisclosed recipients:
.............................................................
MR JAMES COMEY
DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
Attn: Beneficiary,
Compliments of the day, I Wish to inform you that your Payment has been released and you will need to contact the payment Officer Mr. Rooney Josh with the information's as stated below. CONTACT INFORMATION NAME: Mr. Rooney Josh EMAIL: ( [email protected] ) Do contact Mr. Rooney Josh of the ATM PAYMENT CENTER with your details: FULL NAME: HOME ADDRESS: TELL: CELL:CURRENT OCCUPATION: : AGE: INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT/WORKING ID CARD.
Also please be informed that all necessary Documents has been put in place all you will have to do is to make sure you can be able to afford 105 USD for the Delivery of your Funds which is to be sent to you via an ATM SWIFT CARD using International Courier Service. We do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.
We guarantee receipt of your payment. This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed to citizens of American and also Asia and Europe which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared.
Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.
CALL HIM WITH THIS NUMBER +234-81 3169-2490
Regards,
MR JAMES COMEY
DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
________________________
The Funny part:
Yeah, right. The Director of the FBI wants to help me collect money that I did not know I had coming.
The Director of the FBI has an email address of chloe@blackgateone.com. Chloe must be his middle name.
The Director of the FBI apparently does not know my name since he did not use it, and apparently can't get my address and telephone number.
Judging by the grammar and phraseology, The Director of the FBI doesn't seem to have English as his native tongue.
The payment officer, Mr. Rooney Josh, has a Vietnamese email address- [email protected].vn. Must be a branch office, which explains the funny phone number.
The Tragic Part:
That we have so little common sense left amongst us that people actually fall for these scams with so many red flags contained in the very message itself. I'm not knocking your 95 year old grandma who thinks Truman is still President- I'm talking about functioning(?) adults.
Maybe the Gubburmint oughta do somethin to protect us!
