Fake FBI Emails come knocking to pay back money lost to internet scams!
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FBI, in a press release, is warning everyone to watch out for an email scam that promises to pay back all the money they lost to internet scams. Pretending to be a new Government initiative, the scam is flooding online users with phony refund notifications.
Scammers do not spare any of their tricks in trying to make the email look ‘official’. Official logos and names of government agencies are littered liberally on the emails. Wonderfully, it gives the impression that governments are cutting across borders, setting aside pressing problems and finding common ground in helping you get the money you lost to a scam last summer.
For effects, it drops names like the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (old name of IC3), the British Government and the Metropolitan Police (UK) and also throws in some fancy titles.
It expects you to sign a ‘fund release order’ immediately, on receipt of which it promises you to wire the reimbursement straight from the “Bank of England”. However, it will not take ‘no’ for an answer - if you fail to do as you are told, it threatens to place the funds on hold and impose penalties on it.
The FBI has listed in the press release, the trademark signs of a scam that the emails bear:
- Multiple spelling errors
- Poor grammar
- Government agency names
- Signatures of officials and titles to appear authentic
- Warning for failure to comply.
Be alert to the scam.
Do not open unsolicited e-mails. Do not click on links in the e-mails. It may trigger a virus attack or a malware download.
For more information or to lodge a complaint, visit here.
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August 29th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Hello,
Just enquiring i received an email thats meant to be from the FBI FRAUD ALERT the sender is mr robert mueller-executive director fbi and im meant to email back to a mr tim kruger who is meant to be the officer in charge and address is FBI UK Internet Watch/Alert so could yo please tell me if any of this is legal and do any of those 2 guys work for the FBI and is the address right for the uk
Thanks
Helene Percy
August 29th, 2008 at 8:48 am
@ Helene…
Hi!
This sure is a scam. Read this…
FBI Warns Public of E-mail Scams
Don’t bother replying…in fact, you can do better by deleting the mail right away!
Thanks for dropping by!
Best Wishes!
November 8th, 2008 at 8:03 am
I constantly get e-mails from Robert Mueller,FBI, but I feel certain it is Fake.They are appearing to be him.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I got an e-mail from Robert Mueller III stating that I have $8,000,000 coming to me from Nigeria. I’m a housewife who has never left the country so I canj’t imagine what I did to deserve that kind of money!
November 21st, 2008 at 3:17 am
Hi Pauletta, Vicki…
Yeah, Just a bunch of fraudsters hoping you’d bite.
Best wishes!
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Okay people I T 101. when in doubt trace the Ip address. How? In the right conner of the incomming e-mail there is a box labled Standard Header click on the standard header and make a full header. This will reveal the following
From alert00 Tue Dec 2 09:09:00 2008
Return-Path:
Authentication-Results: mta195.mail.re4.yahoo.com from=netcabo.pt; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 212.113.174.24 (EHLO mx.netcabo.pt) (212.113.174.24)
by mta195.mail.re4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:15:46 -0800
Received: from exch01smtp11.hdi.tvcabo ([10.137.34.11])
by mx.netcabo.pt with ESMTP; 02 Dec 2008 17:09:31 +0000
Received: from VS63.hdi.tvcabo ([10.137.130.82]) by exch01smtp11.hdi.tvcabo with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:09:31 +0000
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=”—-_=_NextPart_001_01C954A0.ABAB71F5″
Subject:
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:09:00 -0000
Message-ID:
Thread-Index: AclUoKtQaO6B2W9SS16p0lraANDc1A==
From: “alert00″
Bcc:
Return-Path: alert00@netcabo.pt
Content-Length: 3587
Copy the received from into your google or explore broswer. or web search this will tell you where the e-mail came from or reveal scam notices posted by other web watchers like me. we do this to help good people.
February 5th, 2009 at 2:37 am
ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONITARY 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
Dear Fund Benneficiary,
Some time ago, your Nigerian friends, I mean the people that introduced you to the project approached you and requested you assist them conclude a money transfer deal they had with you, they requested you to assist them by removing the original contractors name , from the bank vetting computer and replacing them with your name and your details in order to make you appear as the rightful beneficiary of this funds. you agreed and they said you will share the money with them as soon as your name appears as the beneficiary.
So this is just a clue to show you that we are very investigative and have all details to persecute you, but we shall give you the opportunity to receive the funds and make it clean, since it is coming into our dear country, but if you do not co-operate then we shall take negative actions.
Maybe you think, that we are joking , but by the time we start taking actions you would know how serious we are,you do not have his document in your files,if you did the account would not have been freezed. We did not believe this at first , but when we saw the wire we had no option than to contact you. It has come to the attention of our Money Trafficking investigation department, that you have some funds valued at U.S $10.5 Million to your name , The said payment is awaiting adjudication and credited to your name this funds are from Inheritance ‘willed ‘to you from Nigeria C.B.N precisely.
With full concern of The F.B.I and the Internal Revenue Service(IRS) wish to remind you of the consequences of remitting such huge sums of money without complying fully with the provisions of the Financial and Allied Matters Decree 5 as amended in Citibank Group New York sub-section C(6) of 2003, which stipulates that any monitory transaction been done in the United States Of America, must have proper records , which dually guarantees and covers the transaction as legitimate and legally acquired and not criminally or terrorist associated funds. This is due to ongoing terrorist activities/economic crimes on and against the United States of America citizens .
You are under an observational /Investigation in connection with money laundering.
If your funds comes from a legitimate and legal source ,the proper guidelines for you to recover the right of transaction is for you to provide the DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY SEAL OF TRANSFER (DIST) so that your funds will be legally processed and recorded and accounted for and then finally released to you .
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONEY LAUNDERING DEPARTMENT ) IS HERE to wipe out terrorism , and will stop at no length in doing our duty for the American people .
You have 48 hours to produce legal proof of the below frozen wired transaction number coded:3456711owned by you , You do not have any rights to recieve this funds if the documented legal wire information is not complete. The very heart of FBI operations lies in our investigations–which serve, as our mission states, ‘to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats and to enforce the criminal laws of the United States.’ We currently have jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal law. So you can see that the that we can track you down through Investigative programes.We have your address and the evidence and status of your wired funds, so we can arrest you anytime.
Note ,the funds are very legal and from a good source, so as a matter of National interest you have to provide the documents to certify the money as clean funds. The funds are With Citibank New York right now, and wil be released to you as soon as this document is procured,even if you do not want the funds you still have to obtain the documents to clear your name as, the funds are already here, so the decision is yours. If you have the document then forward it to us immediately, if you do not have the documents then contact us immediately so that we can advice you on what it will take and where to obtain the documents.
Note: that you have just 48 hours to complete this process of national interest.
NOTE:If you failure to produce the above requirement in the next 48 hours, legal action will be taken immediately from our office
Sincerely,
Yours In Service.
JOSEPH PERSICHINI JR., ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Federal Bureau Of Investigations
Email :fbiwdc90@yahoo.com.hk
IDENTIAL NOTICE: This E-MAIL may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, copying, or use of this document is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by email at the E-MAlL listed above to arrange for the destruction or return of the original document to us. Thank you
© 2008 Federal Bureau Of Investigations All Rights Reserved
March 7th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Dear sir,
Metropolitan police Internet Fraud Watch/Alert is real or fraud? i got mail from microsoft lotery nd after that i won 500,000 pounds and after that i got mail from Metropolitan police Internet Fraud Watch/Alert that this is real and not a fact. so u can go ahead with this and pay what ever courier charges they say..
I want some clarification about that issue.
Thank you…
March 7th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Dear sir,
Metropolitan police Internet Fraud Watch/Alert is real or fraud? i got mail from microsoft lotery that after that i win 500,000 pounds and after that i got mail from Metropolitan police Internet Fraud Watch/Alert that this is real and not a fact. so u can go ahead with this and pay what ever courier charges they say..
I want some clarification about that issue.
Thank you…
March 7th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Dear sir,
Metropolitan police Internet Fraud Watch/Alert is real or fraud? i got mail from microsoft lotery that i win 500,000 pounds and after that i got mail from Metropolitan police Internet Fraud Watch/Alert that this is real and not a fact. so u can go ahead with this and pay what ever courier charges they say..
I want some clarification about that issue.
Thank you…