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From: Fbi Office <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 15:10:30 +0100 (CET)
Subject: FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
J.Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20423-0002
ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY
This is 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 $7.4million USD from a Lottery Company outside the United States of
America. We have authorized this winning to be paid to you via SWIFT ATM CARD.
The stated amount of $7.4million 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 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 )
CONTACT AGENT NAME: MR.Emma Ben
CALL +229-64652390
E-MAIL :([email protected])
You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
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 $250.00 in order to immediately ship your prize of $7.4
million USD via SWIFT ATM CARD from IMF, also include the following transaction
code in order for him to immediately identify this transaction: AAE3248910.
This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is
authorizing you to pay the required $250.00 ONLY to MR.Emma Ben ,information in
which he shall send to you,
Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
HON.Christopher ,A, Way DIRECTOR FBI,
III Director Office of Public Affairs