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From: "Mr.walter" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:31:10 +0100
Subject: FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J.Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
www.fbi.gov
ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY
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 was 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 $2.4million 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 winded, so as to enable you cash the
check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of
$2.4million 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,
(1) Deposit Fee's ( IMF INTERNATIONAL CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE )
(3) Shipping Fee's ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's
Check to your home address)
The total amount for everything is $96.00 We have tried our possible
best to indicate that this $96.00 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 required 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 Walter) via e-mail.
Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: Mr Walter
E-MAIL : [email protected]
PHONE NUMBER: +229-69728179
You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:
FULL
NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram
details on how to send the required $96.00 in order to immediately
ship your prize of $2.4million 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 $96.00 ONLY to
Mr Walter via information in which he shall send to you,
Mr. Christopher Wray
Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
Yours in Service,
Christopher Wray Director Office of Public Affairs