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From: [email protected]
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 04:35:47 -0300
Subject: FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
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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 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 $4.8million
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 $4.8million 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 )
(2) 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 to 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. NICHOLAS MATTI ) via e-mail. Kindly
look
below to find appropriate contact information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: MR. NICHOLAS MATTI
PHONE NUMBER: +229995576491
Email= [email protected]
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 $4.8million USD via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT from
IMF, also
include the following transaction code in order for him to 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.
NICHOLAS MATTI
via information in which he shall send to you,
Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
Yours in Service,Christopher A. Wray,
Director Office of Public Affairs, F B I