I have been notified by the F.B.I.

[octagon]

They sent me this email:

ANTI-TERRORIST & MONETARY CRIMES DIVISION
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
1110 THIRD AVENUE
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 USA


ATTENTION: 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 $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.

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 will be
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) Cashier's Check Conversion Fee ( Fee for converting the Wire
Transfer payment into a Certified Cashier's Check )
(2) 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 $280.00 (Two Hundred & Eighty-US
Dollars). We have tried our possible best to indicate that this
$280.00 should be deducted from your winning prize but we discovered
that the funds is a bounded check and it 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.

In other to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to
contact the agent in-charge ( Mr. Benson Edward) via e-mail. Kindly
look below to find appropriate contact information:


CONTACT AGENT NAME: Benson Edward

E-MAIL ADDRESS: ([email protected])


You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:


FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:


You will also be required to request Western Union details on how to
send the required $280.00 in other to immediately shipment your prize
of $800,000.00 USD via Certified Cashier's Check drawn from Bank Of
America, also include the following transaction code in other 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 $280.00 ONLY to
Mr. Benson Edward 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).


Mr. Bill Nicholson
Special Agent.
Federal Bureau of Investigation.

[weemac]

Sounds like a bargian.........

Eden.

[collin]

Ooh Mitch!

That means that one of your long-lost distant relatives won the Nigerian lottery. You'd better send them your credit cards and SSN so they can help you claim your huge prize.

I am TOTALLY jealous right now, too.

[xpitt]

Guess how many Ricks could be yours....

[gregga41]

How come i never get those! Hurry up Mitch, send them the money!!

[paologregorio]

R-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-g-h-t.

[tennis_nick]

As much as we laugh... People have, and continue to, fall for this!


Which is kind of sad for the future of the world isn't it?

[jdogric12]

Survival of the fittest, baby!!!



No, seriously, yeah, it sucks.

[jps]

I am sure the real FBI would like to learn about this, have you contacted them yet?

[rickenbrother]

I am sure the real FBI would like to learn about this, have you contacted them yet?

That wasn't the real FBI?

[blueflamerick]

Enjoy the additional spam you'll be getting from opening that email. Run a spyware scan on your computer, you don't know what scripts run behind the scenes when you open junk mail.

[cjj]

+1
Interesting new twist on the old Nigerian scam...

[ram]

That coupled with:
Microsoft warns of computer security hole
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31766751/ns ... -security/

be careful out there!

[jingle_jangle]

Sounds like a bargian.........

Nah, not "Bargian", Eden. Nigerian, I think. Bargians aren't computer-savvy.

Mitch, if I were you, I'd book a ticket to Lagos, pronto.

Doesn't have to be round trip, either, from what I hear...

[xpitt]

That coupled with:
Microsoft warns of computer security hole
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31766751/ns ... -security/

be careful out there!

Is it safer using Firefox or Safari....?

Paul, email sent