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From: "FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION"<[email protected]>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 17:39:12 -0500
Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION .
FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
REF: US/28028/8A28/18 ATTN: RECIPIENT
This is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice and
we have thoroughly completed an investigation with the help of our
Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you legally won the sum of
$800,000.00 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 a Certified Cashier's Check.
Normally, it will take up to 10 business days for an International
Check to be cashed by your local banks. We have successfully notified
this company on your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a
registered bank within the United States of America so as to enable
you cash the check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated
amount of $800,000.00 USD. has been deposited with Bank Of America.
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 at Bank Of America you will be required to settle the
following bills directly to the Lottery Agent in-charge of this
transaction whom is located in Lagos, Nigeria, According to our
discoveries, you were required to pay for the following –
Deposit Fee's (Fee's paid by the company for the deposit into an
American Bank which is – Bank of America)
Cashier's Check Conversion Fee (Fee for converting the Wire Transfer
payment into a Certified Cashier's Check)
The total amount for everything is $270.00 (Two hundred and seventy
USD.) We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $270.00
should be deducted from your winning prize but we found out that the
funds have already been deposited at Bank Of America and cannot be
accessed by anyone except the legal owner (you), the winner; therefore
you will be required to pay the required fee's to the Agent in-charge
of this transaction via Western Union Money Transfer Or Money Gram.
In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to
contact the agent in-charge (JOHN WHITE) via e-mail. Kindly look
below to find appropriate contact information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: JOHN WHITE
E-MAIL ADDRESS: [email protected]
You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
You will also be required to request Western Union details on how to
send the required $270.00 in order to immediately ship your prize of
$800,000.00 USD Certified Cashier's Check drawn from Bank of
America, and also include the following Fund Reference Identification
: FA3948-914.
This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $270.00 ONLY to
AGENT JOHN WHITE via information in which he shall send to you, if you
do not receive your winning prize of $800,000.00 we shall be held
responsible for the loss and this shall invite a penalty of $3,000
which will be made PAYABLE ONLY to you (The Winner).
Christopher Asher Wray
Director – FBI.
NOTE: In order to ensure rapid response for the Fund won, contact
AGENT JOHN WHITE as soon as possible providing the required
information needed from you above