This just in the ol’ email box.
From: [email protected]
Reply-to: [email protected]
Sent: 5/2/2012 5:40:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: OFFICIAL LETTER FROM FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.OFFICIAL LETTER FROM FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI
ROBERT MUELLER III EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FBI FEDERAL BUREAU OF
INVESTIGATION FBI.WASHINGTON DC.
FBI SEEKING TO WIRETAP INTERNET
Email:[email protected]
ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY
FROM: ROBERT MUELLER III EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FBI FEDERAL BUREAU OF
INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON DC. FBI SEEKING TO WIRETAP INTERNET
The federal bureau of investigation (FBI). Through our
intelligence-monitoring network has discovered that the transaction that the
bank contacted you previously was legal. Recently the fund has been legally
approved to be paid via Central Bank of Nigeria.
We the federal bureau of investigation (FBI) Washington Dc, in conjunction
with the United Nations (UN) financial department have investigated through
our monitoring network noting that your transaction with the Central Bank of
Nigeria legal. You have the legitimate right to complete your transaction to
claim your fund US$15.5, 000,000.00(Fifteen million five Hundred Thousand
united states dollars).
We the federal bureau of investigation decided to contact the FedEx Courier
Service Company in Nigeria for them to give us their procedures on how to send
this money to you without any further complain or delay. We just got an
information from the Central Bank of Nigeria that they have loaded your
US$15.5, 000, 000.00 in ATM CARD and submit to the
FedEx courier service company for immediate delivery to your doorstep.
***
Best Regards,
Robert S. Mueller III
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C.
20535-0001, USA.
Email: [email protected].
And after all the mean things I’ve said about the FBI. Well, don’t I feel ungrateful now.
Every once in a while, you hear a story about a lawyer falling for one of these scams. Feel that breeze?
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Wow. This shows a lot of effort and creativity in a rather knuckleheaded way. The internet/mail fraud equivalent of insisting on proving Ptolemaic cosmology correct in the 21st century.
And I cut the email way down to its bare essentials because it was so long and involved.
I like that they went with lowercase “federal bureau of investigation.” Shows they are just plain folks.
Imagine that someone was at work at 5:40 AM at the FBI.
And when I started laughing out loud after reading your comment, everybody looked at me like I was weird.
True, but you have to admit they’re on the ball when someone tries to rob the bank across the street from FBI HQ at luchtime on payday.
Will you be able to get all $15.5, 000, 000.00 in a single withdrawal from the ATM, or will you be capped at a daily limit of $250 or $300?
And what about the $3.00 transaction fee for not using a First Bank of Nigeria ATM?
What a rip-off!
I was wondering that too, whether the ATM card would let me withdraw it all at one time. I was thinking twenties, because tens might be too heavy to carry.
I am sad to see this, because it means that somewhere, out there, there is some American dumb enough to fall for it. And that dumb person has the right to vote.
We are doomed.
Still not very convincing. Why DO people fall for these?
I keep wondering, do Nigerians get emails that start:
“You don’t know me but I am Mrs Ken Lay, widow of the late Ken Lay, former chief executive of Enron. My husband earned $101m in proceeds from the sale of Enron stock. I need your help …..”
AND do Nigerians fall for them?
You could take it out in Zimbabwe dollars. They printed $100 trillion notes (I have one).