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From: "Federal Bureau of Investigation"<[email protected]>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 08:48:46 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION FROM FBI
_FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION_
_INTELLIGENCE FIELD UNIT_
_J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING_
_935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW WASHINGTON, D.C_
_20535-0001, USA._
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_This is to inform you that we have just intercepted a trunk box at
JFK airport in New York, and we are on the verge moving it to our
bureau head quarters._
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_This said box has been scanned! And found out that it contains a
total sum of $2.1 million and also backup document which bears your
name as the receiver of the money contained in the box, as
investigations carried out on the diplomat who was moving with the
box, he said that he was to deliver this funds to your residence as
payment which was due from the United Nation Compensation Commission
(UNCC )office of the United Nation Headquarter New York._
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_After cross-checked all legal documentation in the box, on about to
release the consignment to the diplomat. We found out that the
documents is lacking one very important documentation which as a
result that, the box has been confiscated._
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_According to section 229 sub section 31 of the 1991 constitution in
tax payment, your consignment lacks tax clearance certificate paper
from the joint team of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and homeland
security, and therefore, you must contact us for direction on how to
procure this certificate, so that you can be relieved of the charges
of evading tax which is a punishable offense under section 12 sub
section 441 of constitution on tax evasion._
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_You are required to contact this bureau within 72 hours, or you will
be arrested, interrogated and prosecuted in the court of law for money
laundering._
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_Also, you must not contact any other bank or persons, the united
kingdom or any part of the world for any payment, because your
consignment have been confiscated by this bureau here in the united
states._
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_Yours in service,_
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_Andrew McCabe,_
_Acting director in charge, FBI Washington._