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From: Robert S. Mueller, <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 17 22:52:59 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION: FROM Federal Bureau Of Investigation
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Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J.Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington,
www.fbi.gov D.C. 20535-0001
ATTENTION:
This e-mail has been issued to you in order to Officially inform you
that we have completed an investigation on an International Payment in
which wa s issued to you by an International Lottery Company. With
the help of our newly developed technology (International Monitoring
Network System) we discovered that your e-mail address was
automatically selected by an Online Balloting System, this has legally
won you the sum of $2.5million USD from a Lottery Company outside the
United States of America. During our investigation we discovered that
your e-mail won the money from an Online Balloting System and we have
authorized this winning to be paid to you via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED
BANK DRAFT.
Normally, it will take up to 5 business days for an INTERNATIONAL
CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT by your local bank. We have successfully notified
this company on your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a
registered bank within the world winde, so as to enable you cash the
check instantly without any delay,henceforth the stated amount of
$2.5million USD has been deposited with IMF .
We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to
receive the winning prize as we have verified the entire transaction
to
be Safe and 100% risk free, due to the fact that the funds have been
deposited with IMF you will be required to settle the following bills
directly to the Lottery Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is
located in Cotonou, Benin Republic. According to our discoveries, you
were required to pay for the following, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
F B I
(1) Deposit Fee's ( IMF INTERNATIONAL CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE ) (2)
Shipping Fee's ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's Check
to
your home address)
The total amount for everything is $155Â We have tried our possible
best to indicate that this $155 should be deducted from your winning
prize but we found out that the funds have already been deposited IMF
and cannot be accessed by anyone apart from you the winner, therefore
you will be requir ed to pay the required fee's to the Agent
in-charge of this transaction In order to proceed with this
transaction, you will be required to contact the agent in-charge ( Mr.
MARK BEN) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact
information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: Mr. MARK BEN
E-MAIL [email protected]
 RECEIVERâS NAME:………… MANYA DAVID
COUNTRY:……….. BENIN REPUBLIC
CITY:……………..COTONOU
AMOUNT:……….$155
QUESTION:……..VERY
ANSWER:………….URGENT
MTCN:……..
SENDER's
You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram
details on how to send the required $155 in order to immediately
ship your prize of $2.5million USD via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED BANK
DRAFT from IMF, also include the following transaction code in order
for him to immediately identify this transaction : EA2948-910.
This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $155Â ONLY to
Mr.
MARK BEN information in which he shall send to you,MANYA DAVIDÂ Is
Arrested with mr,LAZ HABO.
Mr. JAMES COMEY
Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
Yours in Service,Photograph of Director
Robert S. Mueller, IIIRobert S. Mueller,
III Director Office of Public Affairs
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