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Old 08-08-2009, 05:40 PM   #1
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Omg I won $800,000.00!!!!!

I got this email, from the FBI today. I'm a little concerned that the FBI agent has g-mail address, although they use to be called G-men so maybe it's legit!

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Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

Attn: Beneficiary,

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 bank. 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 -

(1) Deposit Fee's ( Fee's paid by the company for the deposit into an American Bank which is - Bank Of America )
(2) Cashier's Check Conversion Fee ( Fee for converting the Wire Transfer payment into a Certified Cashier's Check )
(3) Shipping Fee's ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's Check to your home address and this fee includes Insurance )

The total amount for everything is $600.00 (Six Hundred-US Dollars). We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $600.00 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 apart from 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 ( MR. ALLEN BUCHALTER) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:

CONTACT AGENT NAME: MR. ALLEN BUCHALTER
E-MAIL ADDRESS: allenbuchatermanagerceo@gmail.com
Telephone Number : +234-802-211-8059

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 Money Transfer or Money Gram details on how to send the required $600.00 in order to immediately ship your prize of $800,000.00 USD via Certified Cashier's Check drawn from Bank Of America, also include the following transaction code in order for him to immediately identify this transaction : EA2948-91090.

This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $600.00 ONLY to MR. ALLEN BUCHALTER 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).

John Edward (Special Agent) FBI
Washington DC FBI.
Room, 7367
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

NOTE: In order to ensure your check gets delivered to you ASAP, you are advised to immediately contact Mr. Allen Buchalter via contact information provided above and make the required payment of $600.00 to information in which he shall provide to you via contact information provided above and make the required payment of $600.00 to information in which he shall provide to you.
Seriously, does anyone know a good place to report an email such as this, I would hate for anyone to lose $600.00 to these crooks.
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Seriously, I would contact the FBI. Really Truly. They may already be aware of the scam but maybe not.
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I would also contact the FBI or your local Police Dept and/or local news station. I believe I had read something about a scam that sounded something close to this. You should never have to send money!
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I thought there might be a place online to report this sort of thing. Do your really think I should report it to the FBI? Are they opened weekends?
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You wouldn't believe how much of this goes on. I worked at a bank until a couple months ago and people would bring in checks that looked very legit and try to cash them. When they first began bringing them in one of our tellers actually cashed one for $5000! They were supposed to send so much to the people, which they did, then they spent the rest. Well of course the check came back and they were out that money! It was really sad. Everyone be very careful!!!!!@
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Take the money and run!
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Take the money and run!
Lol, and I'd run out and buy a bunch of yorkies!

I took your advice, and looked up the FBI's internet complaint site. I hope this site is legit because I had to give them a lot of personal information. Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | File a Complaint. They said that they would report the crime to the local police department as well.
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snopes.com is a great place to verify most of the junk we get in email. You can use the search box and type in a few keywords, or whatever. Sometimes there are several posts to choose from. One thing is for sure, no one is going to give you a cent, not Bill Gates, not some person in the UK or other country, no, no no. And Applebees is not gonna give you a free meal either. lol

THEY WANT YOU TO SEND THEM $600 SO THEY CAN SEND YOU THE $800,000??? OH GREAT, YOU PAY THEM 600 AND THEY TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. IT IS JUST ANOTHER SCAM.
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snopes.com is a great place to verify most of the junk we get in email. You can use the search box and type in a few keywords, or whatever. Sometimes there are several posts to choose from. One thing is for sure, no one is going to give you a cent, not Bill Gates, not some person in the UK or other country, no, no no. And Applebees is not gonna give you a free meal either. lol
Yeah, I think snopes is great, but I had no doubt it wasn't legitimate, they didn't even know my name, and whoever links on that email mail address can claim my prize. I just wanted to report them, I was thinking about snopes, but the FBI is even better, they may be able to catch the crooks.
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Unfortunately you'd have some trusting sole who would actually believe this scam. Thats reallys scarey.
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snopes.com is a great place to verify most of the junk we get in email. You can use the search box and type in a few keywords, or whatever. Sometimes there are several posts to choose from. One thing is for sure, no one is going to give you a cent, not Bill Gates, not some person in the UK or other country, no, no no. And Applebees is not gonna give you a free meal either. lol

THEY WANT YOU TO SEND THEM $600 SO THEY CAN SEND YOU THE $800,000??? OH GREAT, YOU PAY THEM 600 AND THEY TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. IT IS JUST ANOTHER SCAM.
Man, I was hoping you won $800,000. I noticed it was a scam when I read that they wanted you to give them some money for winning the lottery, which is a red flag. I have those types of criminals call my house everyday saying I won a lottery. I wish they would stop. They once left a message on my answering machine saying we need to take care of business. When I heard that message, I could not stop laughing.
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To file a complaint on scam/hoax emails with the FBI go to this website

Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | Home

it's what we advise the public when our department gets reports.
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I can't believe these nut's acutally used the FBI as a sorce of being
legit! LOL fools!
Sorry it wasn't true, think of all the Yorkies you would have given a home
too. One day maybe.
Seems like these lonnies are coming out of the woodwork trying to get
your information to your bank acct. That would have been next so they
could do an automatic "withdrawal" and take YOUR money.
I got an e-mail at work two weeks ago telling me my $MILLION dollars
has been cleared by the board of trustees and is ready to be depostied
into my account.
Please send them my name, address, tel # and of course my
bank account # so they can automatically deposit it right into my account.
They will notify me when the deposit is complete.
It was signed Mohammed something or other.
Do these nut's really think people fall for this crap!

I deleted it of course. I couldn't think who to report it too.
There was an e-mail address of course but who would you report something
like this too?
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I just saw a piece done about these types of email frauds and how that most of this come out of a cyber cafe in Africa. I believe they said you could call the local police and also the post office as they are able to take down complaints.

They even said that some really educated people have actually fallen for these emails and have ended up in really big trouble.
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I feel bad for the people who might actually fall for it.
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