I am going to be rich!

[565bbchevy]

I just received this email in my spam folder, I am sure it is legit.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI)
Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crimes Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington D.C
https://www.fbi.gov/history/directors/christopher-wray
Attention:
If you receive this email its means you are yet to receive your scam victim Compensation Funds. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have noticed that you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Mrs. Gill Marcus of the Reserve Bank Of South Africa, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Etc.
The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI, British Interpol and the African Truth and Reconciliation Commission gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors as you have. As a result of this 1000 people where selected across the Globe for this SECOND BATCH OF THE YEAR COMPENSATION and Your email was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Team observers and this is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed by the US GOVERNMENT in conjunction with the IMF.
We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $5,500,000.00 USD (Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) will be release to you as one of the selected Beneficiaries. To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to contact the Compensation Center via email or phone for their requirement to proceed for the release of your funds
Dr. Derick Foster
Director- General
Compensation Award Payment Center
Email: [email protected]

 

[joesregalproject]

Wahoo! I'm gonna be rich too but I've gotta help out this Nigerian prince first...

 

[565bbchevy]

Wahoo! I'm gonna be rich too but I've gotta help out this Nigerian prince first...

Hey, yours sound like it might be a scam!

 

[pagrunt]

You want to adopt a 42 year old son to help spend that new found money? But you'll have to go to WalMart & get a few special prepaid cards in the amount of 200,000 Pesos each, then mail them to Peru, prepay the cargo freight the ship them by container ship the Philippines where they will then go express air to Turkey, then finally go by donkey cart to Iraq. I'm worth all the trouble. Any questions email me at totally_worth_it@i'm_going_to_rip_you _off.scam

 

[565bbchevy]

The sad thing is you know there are people out there that will actually fall for these scams.
A friend of a guy I work with fell for a cashiers check scam a few months back and lost $2,200, I was like how do you not know about these things and if you don't the internet is only a click away.

 

[joesregalproject]

Hey, yours sound like it might be a scam!

Nah, it's all Western Union wire transfer, totally legit!

The sad thing is you know there are people out there that will actually fall for these scams.
A friend of a guy I work with fell for a cashiers check scam a few months back and lost $2,200, I was like how do you not know about these things and if you don't the internet is only a click away.

Yeah, they wouldn't do it if people weren't falling for it. It's a shame but it's also hard to believe people can be so naive.

 

[jiho]

I've never understood how anyone who would go for one of these scams could have the money to rip off.

 

[airboatgreg]

What?? ya mean it ain't so Joe?

 

[Jeff L]

I've never understood how anyone who would go for one of these scams could have the money to rip off.

I think the same, but you see this in the news all the time. The first thing the victim says is I never thought I could be fooled, etc. A local grocery store saved some retiree from losing thousands when the clerk was aware of the scams and this retiree was trying to buy a few thousand dollars worth of Apple iTunes gift cards to send for payment for “missing jury duty”.

One poor woman in Prescott AZ lost a few hundred thousand, her life savings, to the fake lottery winning scam. The lady had the beginnings of dementia, her husband just passed a few years earlier, and the vultures swooped in. Happened so fast the family never caught it in time.

You have to be alert all the time.

But I do love to read those bogus spam emails like the OP received. Do not get them as much as 15 years ago, but as others wrote they would not still be circulating unless someone is falling for them.

Uh oh, my phone is ringing. It is the IRS and they say I owe thousands..... lol

 

[airboatgreg]

If the scam didn't work they wouldn't do it. Think of the one's that go unreported