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From: "MR. CHRISTOPHER WRAY" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 11:32:06 +0200
Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS (F.B.I)
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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, D.C.
Attention Fund 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 $2.5million 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 ATM VISA CARD or CHECK.
We have successfully notified this company on your behalf that funds are
to be drawn from a registered bank within the world winded, to enable
you receive your fund 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 contact the IMF Office in Benin Republic to
settle the following bills directly to the IMF Office,
(1) Deposit Fee's (IMF INTERNATIONAL CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE)
(2) Shipping Fee's ( This is the charge for shipping the ATM VISA CARD
to your home address)
The total amount for everything is $285.00 We have tried our possible
best to indicate that this $285.00 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 IMF Office
in-charge of this transaction In order to proceed with this transaction,
you will be required to contact IMF director in-charge (KARIM
BARHOUMI)via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact
information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: KARIM BARHOUMI
E-mail address: ( [email protected] )
You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:
1. Name in full.
2. Address.
3. Nationality.
4. Age.
5. Occupation.
6. Phone No.
7. Present Country.
8. Fax [optional].
9. Email address.
10. Sex.
You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram details
on how to send the required $285.00 in order to immediately ship your
prize of $2.5 Million USD via ATM VISA CARD or CHECK from IMF. Make your
option on how you want to receive your payment, 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
$285.00 ONLY to KARIM BARHOUMI.via information, in, which he shall send
to you, Yours in Service,
Regards.
MR. CHRISTOPHER WRAY
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS (F.B.I)