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From: "Mr. Christopher A. Wray" <[email protected]>Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:41:16 +0100
Subject: Attention: My Dear
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 $4.8million USD from a Lottery Company outside the
United States of America. During our investigation, we discovered
that your e- 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
$4.8million 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)
(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 agent in-charge ( MR. NICHOLAS SMITH ) via
e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: MR. NICHOLAS SMITH
So contact him now on this Email Address : ( [email protected] )
Call him on Tel: PHONE NUMBER:+22967112279
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.
11. Your Identity Card
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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 $4.8million 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
MR. NICHOLAS SMITH via information, in, which he shall send to you,
Mr. Christopher A. Wray
Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
III Director Office of Public Affairs