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From: "Diplomatic Austin James" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 02:31:15 +0600
Subject: FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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

Attn: 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 $2.4million
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 five 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, 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 Abomey-Calavi, 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 director in-charge
(Diplomatic Austin James) via e-mail.

Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:

CONTACT AGENT NAME:Diplomatic Austin James
E-MAIL ADDRESS:([email protected])
PHONE NUMBER: +229-60726228.

You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:
1. Your full Name========
2. your Address========
3. Nationality========
4. Age================
5. Occupation========
6. Phone Number========
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 $96.00 in order to immediately ship your prize
of $2.4 million 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 Diplomatic Austin
James, via information, in, which he shall send to you,

Christopher.A Wray

Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
Yours in Service, Andrew G. McCabe
III Director Office of Public Affairs