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Monday, September 19, 2011

Spam - Fraud > FEDERAL BUREAU INVESTIGATION / URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL...

Awful scam, badly done, just a mess.  Just the bad emails and contact are enough to make you want to upchuck.  Using a domain like terra.com is just odd.  Seems like a Spanish version of a Yahoo type portal page.  Of course the FBI does not use their own email, part of the cover up.  The FBI sends email from discaldi.com all the time. 

Badly done scam.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: FEDERAL BUREAU INVESTIGATION <info@biscaldi.com>
Date: 2011/9/16
Subject: ***SPAM*** URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL...
To:


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/28028/8A28/11 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 $120.00 (One Hundred and twenty USD.) We have
tried our possible best to indicate that this $120.00 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 (JAMES FREEMAN) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find
appropriate contact information:

CONTACT AGENT NAME: JAMES FREEMAN

E-MAIL ADDRESS: agentjames09@terra.com

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 $120.00 in order to immediately ship your prize of $800,000.00 USD via
Certified Cashier's Check drawn from Bank of America, and also include the
following Fund Reference Identification : EA2948-910.

This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is
authorizing you to pay the required $120.00 ONLY to AGENT JAMES FREEMAN 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).

Please find below an authorized signature which has been signed by the FBI
Public Affairs Director - Robert Mueller

       NSB Seal
Robert Mueller
Public Affairs Director - FBI.
       NSB SEAL ABOVE

NOTE: In order to ensure rapid response for the Fund won, contact AGENT JAMES
FREEMAN as soon as possible providing the required information needed from you
above

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