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Last Edited: 2010-11-02 05:41:23
October 31 2010 22:22 GMT
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We all (well most of us) have received emails where they tell us that we won XXXXXXXXX amount of money and they ask for our info. Well, usually I don't respond to these emails but one day, I got the most peculiar scheme that I just had to respond to and see what would happen. First of all, they claimed that some guy (that I don't know) has recently died and I am supposed to inherit 27 million dollars.

Here is a brief summary (read what follows the summary to go in detail)

Basically, he emails me saying that "Steve Moore" has recently passed away and he was contacted by my family to claim my inheritance of 27 million. He says that he wants to defend me and prevent the bank from keeping the money. First of all, I don't know anybody named Steve Moore. Secondly, he emails had very poor grammar (lawyers are supposed to have great grammar) He asked me for my personal info so I decided to give him fake info along with the phone # of a restaurant who's manager can only speak Spanish. I was surprised to find out that he actually called the manager and he could understand him because the manager was speaking Spanish. Then he suspects that I am playing with him and he replies, "If you know you are interested in this transaction, please treat this with utmost seriousness and urgency." He also made a new email and sent me a message that claims to be from the bank so I would believe him. I am continuing to play around with this guy but I am currently wondering, How can anybody be soooo stupid as to believe that someone would fall for this scheme?

Update: I got a email by the same guy pretending to be apart of the internet FBI, but I know its the same guy because they have the same bad grammar and he just pretends to impersonate a real life person. He said that he wants to arrest the bank and the lawyer. I don't know what he wants to accomplish with this. He probably wants my private info because he realized that his original scam won't work. In addition, I decided to stall and ask him some questions (shown at the bottom of this blog) and I also emailed the lawyer to see what he has to say about the FBI's message. The lawyer told replied and told me to ignore the FBI because he wants my money. However, I know that they are the same person because the both refer to me as my fake name. "Dung" hahaha..."poop" and I only gave that name to the lawyer. They also make the same grammatical mistakes. I replied to the lawyer by stating that I trust him and I am committed to the cause. In addition, I asked him to mail me some forms (which I will never get because I gave him the wrong address but it will be a good waste of his money. Lesson: never try to earn dishonest money.) I also got a message from the FBI guy but its just pretty repetitive.
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Original message:
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I am David Jackson Attorney to the late Engr.Steve Moore who died
with his wife And their three kids
in a car accident.Before his death he had funds valued at $27million
deposited in a bank,I need your
assistance to retrieve the money left behind by my client.get back to
me for more details.
contact me with this email; davidjacksonbarr_20009@yahoo.co.jp

Thanks

David Jackson


I thought that the first message was unclear so I responded:
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What do I get for helping you?


Afterwards, he elaborated:
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Thanks for your urgent response, It is quite pertinent to disclose to you one important thing about this transaction and that is by assuring you that it is 100% risk free and very legitimate and Authentic.

I am the personal attorney to the Late Engineer steve moore was a known customer to Wema Bank Plc (may his gentle soul rest in perfect peace amen) before his sudden death, he has an account with the bank in which the sum of $27,000,000 .00 was left as his credit. The bank has made alot of efforts to see that his family claim this aforsaid subject matter . but all their efforts proved abortive because the said deceased died together with all his family.This bank has mandated that this fund will be treated as unclaimed fund which is tantamount to say that it will forever become their funds. I am his attorney and i have all the information that led to his death,with this effect i have the legal right to present you as the next of kin or heir of my late client (Engineer steve moore).So please be rest asured that we will procure all legal necessary documents required that will back up the authenticity and legitimacy of this transaction to avail the
transaction the requisite Legal Purchase and the funds will be released to you legaly without no problems

For us to proceed therefore with the transaction i want you to send the following to me immediately.

Your names in full,
Your telephone and
Your postal address.

Once i have received the information mentioned above, i will imediately proceed to the department incharged of foriegn remittance for submission and the department will contact you as the next of kin to late engr.steve moore.

I anticipate your urgent response with the above information so that we can make further progress in the transaction.

Barr. David Jackson


Notice how this message contains alot of grammatical errors such as forgetting to capitalize the "i". Usually, a lawyer would be very good with their grammar.

I continued to stall and not give any information by asking:
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Wait, I'm wondering, who hired you? Do I have to pay for your service?

(BTW: You forgot to capitalize Steve Moore.)


He responded with this bull:
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Please be advise that this transaction is an inheritance claim. the funds ($27M) was deposited with WEMA BANK PLC before he died with his entire family, now the bank has given me an ultimatum to present someone to come forward and claim the funds otherwise they will confiscate the funds. Now i want to present you as the heir to my late client and the beneficiary to the funds. I have all legal documents that will back you up and be rest assured that the bank will pay you the funds.

Also, the funds will be paid to you by bank transfer.

For us to proceed therefore with the transaction i want you to send the following to me immediately.

Your names in full,
Your telephone and
Your postal address.

Once i have received the information mentioned above, i will imediately proceed to the department incharged of foriegn remittance for submission and the department will contact you as the next of kin to late engr.steve moore.

I anticipate your urgent response with the above information so that we can make further progress in the transaction.


As a result, I decided to give him false information. I gave him the number of my local mexican restaurant and several other false info.

message:
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Ok, My name is Hoa M. Dung
My address is 3029 W 8th St, Los Angeles, CA 90005
(213) 380-2012
Please give me a call as soon as possible. I have some questions that I want answered. ‎


I wanted them to call my local mexican restaurant and I got this response from him:

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Hoa M. Dung,

I just called you now, you picked up the call and i could not understand what you are saying.

If you know you are interested in this transaction, please treat this with utmost seriousness and urgency.

However, i have successfully submitted your name and information to the bank, which they must have contacted you by now, so get back to me with the update so that we may proceed.

Urgently waiting.

Barr David Jackson.


This is my favorite part because I can only imagine the confuse from this guy and the Mexican manager who only knows how to speak spanish.

I wanted to know what he said so I asked:
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I don't recall you calling me. Can you please tell me what you said?


Right now, I'm waiting for a response. However the moral of this story is when someone tries to scam you. Just give them a hard time or play around with them. It might make your day.

He also sent me a message (that was under a different email and claimed to be from the bank)
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The Transfer of the Estate of Late Engr. Steve Moore valued at $27M

We are in receipt of an application filed on your behalf by your representative on the 28th of October. 2010 thereby we write to inform you that this bank has received approval of Foreign Exchange Allocation from Federal Ministry of Finance on the 29th of October. 2010 stating that before the aforementioned subject matter could be paid to you, you are to submit the following documents.

1. The death certificate of late steve moore

2. Three Years tax clearance certificate of late steve moore proceeding from his Death.

3. A cleary copy of your international passport /driver's license

4. The account statement certificate

5. The certificate of funds deposit

6. Your bank account where you want the fund to be wired to.

Once we have all the documents and verified it, we will immediately effect the $27m to your bank account immediately. We want to also inform you that this bank gives you 7 bank working days to submit the documents to us to enable us effect the payment of the $27,000,000.00 to your account as the documents will stand as proof that you are legitimate heir to late steve moore.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Mr John Ovia
Director:Foreign Remittance Department
Wema Bank Plc.
Tel 234 1 2132879
Tel:234 1 2189215
Tel:234 1 4701287
Fax:234 1 4401076


and the email from the fake guy who wants to impersonate a gov. official:
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Attention : Hoa M. Dung ,

My name is Robert Mueller i was nominated by President George W. Bush and became the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on September 4, 2003.I was born in New York City and grew up outside of Philadelphia. I graduated from Princeton University in 1969 and earned a masters degree in International Relations at New York University in 1970.I joined the United States Marine Corps , where I served as an officer for three years, leading a rifle platoon of the Third Marine Division in Vietnam . I'm the recipient of the Bronze Star , two Navy Commendation Medals, the Purple Heart , and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry............Following military service, I Morgan earned a law degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1976 and served on the Law Review,then after completing my education, i worked as a litigator in San Francisco until 1979 and then served for 15 years in United States Attorney 's Offices, first in the Northern District of California in San Francisco, where I rose to be chief of its criminal division. In 1985, I moved to Boston as an Assistant United States Attorney where I investigated and prosecuted major financial fraud, terrorist and public corruption cases, as well as narcotics conspiracies and international money launderers.After serving as a partner at the Boston law firm of Hill and Barlow , I was again called to public service. In 1992 i served in the United States Department of Justice as an assistant to Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh . The following year I took charge of Criminal Division. During the tenure, I oversaw prosecutions, including the conviction of Panama leader Manuel Noriega , the Lockerbie Pan Am 103 bombing case, and the John Gotti mobster prosecution. In 1994, I was elected Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.In 1996, I became a partner at Boston's Hale and Dorr, specializing in complex white collar crime litigation,then i returned to public service in 1998 as senior litigator in the Homicide Section of the District of Columbia United States Attorney's Office . In 2001, and i was named United States Attorney in San Francisco and held that position until 2004.Then i served as Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice for several months, before I becoming FBI Director in March 3rd 2005,I base in chicago but i go arround the world to go through about fraud...so right now we are out of the States down to western african to go through about those scammers in western africam ,Cos we ve got about 50 e-mail address with us,but some are real and some are scammers ,so we do go through they are IP to know where they are from.......so when we got to western african,we combine with EFFC here,Is like FBI in states ,So they use EFFC here we work together because they are president don't support scammers in his country so he gave us the power and the authourity to look after those scammers and we have been here now for about a Month and we have got alot of scammers and got some information from them.
first .. Mr John Ovia Wema Bank
The investigation of scam and fruad of both in african and usa just get to know the big probelm you are into now since 2month ago now.we want to arrest

1... Mr John Ovia Wema Bank Email Address : wemabankaccountss@yahoo.com
2... david jackson Email Address : davidjacksonbarr172@yahoo.com3... Andrew Emeka Sylvester
4...Apina Akeni

They have been the only problem in your life since they promise to give you fraudulent money which is fake money and The Transfer of the Estate of Late Engr. Steve Moore valued at $27M . but we are the internet F B I security and combination with E F C C in african .So we need to help you alot now so you will never have any problem and you will be save from scam and fraudulent.

AND HERE IS OUR UNITED STATE F.B.I WEB-SITE FOR YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE FOR REAL ONLINE NOT PLAYING GAME WITH YOU ONLINE OKAY.
WEB-SITE : http://www.fbi.gov/libref/directors/directmain.htm

Now the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide, Need more information from you....So that we can get all your money back for you with some interest for you...As from now the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide,....Bcos the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide are after you ......Bcos the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide,Want to save you from Fraudlent and Scam...
So get back to us now immediately you read this email ...So that you can give us more information about this ......So that you will not go to Jail with you .......And you can get all your Lost Money Back.

Thank's
Manager E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide
Robert Mueller .


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Update:
I assumed that the "FBI" email wants to get my personal email. As a result, I replied:
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What would I go to jail for?

What info do you need?

Then I sent a email to the "lawyer".
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I got a email from a some gov. official that said that they you are scamming me and they are arresting you. What do you have to say about this?

The following message:


+ Show Spoiler +
FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue ,
NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

Attention : Hoa M. Dung ,

My name is Robert Mueller i was nominated by President George W. Bush and became the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on September 4, 2003.I was born in New York City and grew up outside of Philadelphia. I graduated from Princeton University in 1969 and earned a masters degree in International Relations at New York University in 1970.I joined the United States Marine Corps , where I served as an officer for three years, leading a rifle platoon of the Third Marine Division in Vietnam . I'm the recipient of the Bronze Star , two Navy Commendation Medals, the Purple Heart , and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry............Following military service, I Morgan earned a law degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1976 and served on the Law Review,then after completing my education, i worked as a litigator in San Francisco until 1979 and then served for 15 years in United States Attorney 's Offices, first in the Northern District of California in San Francisco, where I rose to be chief of its criminal division. In 1985, I moved to Boston as an Assistant United States Attorney where I investigated and prosecuted major financial fraud, terrorist and public corruption cases, as well as narcotics conspiracies and international money launderers.After serving as a partner at the Boston law firm of Hill and Barlow , I was again called to public service. In 1992 i served in the United States Department of Justice as an assistant to Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh . The following year I took charge of Criminal Division. During the tenure, I oversaw prosecutions, including the conviction of Panama leader Manuel Noriega , the Lockerbie Pan Am 103 bombing case, and the John Gotti mobster prosecution. In 1994, I was elected Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.In 1996, I became a partner at Boston's Hale and Dorr, specializing in complex white collar crime litigation,then i returned to public service in 1998 as senior litigator in the Homicide Section of the District of Columbia United States Attorney's Office . In 2001, and i was named United States Attorney in San Francisco and held that position until 2004.Then i served as Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice for several months, before I becoming FBI Director in March 3rd 2005,I base in chicago but i go arround the world to go through about fraud...so right now we are out of the States down to western african to go through about those scammers in western africam ,Cos we ve got about 50 e-mail address with us,but some are real and some are scammers ,so we do go through they are IP to know where they are from.......so when we got to western african,we combine with EFFC here,Is like FBI in states ,So they use EFFC here we work together because they are president don't support scammers in his country so he gave us the power and the authourity to look after those scammers and we have been here now for about a Month and we have got alot of scammers and got some information from them.
first .. Mr John Ovia Wema Bank
The investigation of scam and fruad of both in african and usa just get to know the big probelm you are into now since 2month ago now.we want to arrest

1... Mr John Ovia Wema Bank Email Address : wemabankaccountss@yahoo.com
2... david jackson Email Address : davidjacksonbarr172@yahoo.com3... Andrew Emeka Sylvester
4...Apina Akeni

They have been the only problem in your life since they promise to give you fraudulent money which is fake money and The Transfer of the Estate of Late Engr. Steve Moore valued at $27M . but we are the internet F B I security and combination with E F C C in african .So we need to help you alot now so you will never have any problem and you will be save from scam and fraudulent.

AND HERE IS OUR UNITED STATE F.B.I WEB-SITE FOR YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE FOR REAL ONLINE NOT PLAYING GAME WITH YOU ONLINE OKAY.
WEB-SITE : http://www.fbi.gov/libref/directors/directmain.htm

Now the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide, Need more information from you....So that we can get all your money back for you with some interest for you...As from now the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide,....Bcos the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide are after you ......Bcos the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide,Want to save you from Fraudlent and Scam...
So get back to us now immediately you read this email ...So that you can give us more information about this ......So that you will not go to Jail with you .......And you can get all your Lost Money Back.

Thank's
Manager E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide
Robert Mueller .
----- Original Message -----
From: dbarrdavid Jackson
To: Hoa Mai
Subject: Re: ATTENTION; Hoa Mai
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:27:31 -0700 (PDT)
Hoa M. Dung,

I just called you now, you picked up the call and i could not understand what you are saying.

If you know you are interested in this transaction, please treat this with utmost seriousness and urgency.

However, i have successfully submitted your name and information to the bank, which they must have contacted you by now, so get back to me with the update so that we may proceed.

Urgently waiting.

Barr David Jackson.


I also sent the "bank" an email.
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Sorry, I cannot fill out this information online because of identity reasons. Can you please mail me a form to my address.


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Update:
Email I got from the lawyer after I informed him about the internet FBI:
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I am very happy you are an educated and intelligent person. Please all i want is for you to give me direct answers to these questions. Robert Mueller is the Chief of Fbi right?

I.Tell me how come he is the one writing you direct, why isn't it his agents???

2. Tell me why are you being contacted on the internet. since they assume you were in danger with fraudstars why didn't they send one or two of their agent or atleast inform the interpol to come directly to meet you in you house in Los Angeles and warn or notify you of such illegal act.

3. Please check the email id of that fool who is inpersonating and see if truly he is who he claims to be. The real Fbi would not be using an free webpage rather they would use the Government webpage because we all know that the Bureau is a federal agency.

Hoa Mai, be assured when i tell you that i get this everyday from these same imposters and criminals who what they want is to get vital information about this transaction just to stab us in the back by going behind us to claim the funds.They are the same poeple posting out propaganda about saying all sort of immaginable things. just immagine

Be assured that they are not who they claim they are. rather they are criminal and fraudstars and all they want is to extract valuable information from you about this funds and steal it. I advise you stop further communication with them and stay focus with this transaction and lets act fast so that the funds can be release to you quickly and them let see what else they will have to see once we have secured the funds of my late client.

It would not do us any good if you keep listening to all these lies, so let me be very straight with you. If you know you want to be part of this legitimate and very authentic transaction then you must stop listening to side talks and stay focus with all your heart and support you have got and lets end this quickly.

Get back to me with your final decision.

Barr David Jackson.


My response:
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I totally agree, they probably just want to take my inheritance.

I will stop communication with them immediately. Can you mail me the necessary forms that I need to fill out to my address. I do not like to fill out personal information on the web due to security issues. Just send me the forms and I'll mail them back to you as soon as possible.

Or email me the forms and I'll print them out and fill them out immediately for you. I know that legal transactions like these require a lot of paperwork so I want to complete this as soon as possible so I can get my money. I will need you mailing address so I can mail the forms to you. That you so much for being so diligent in this case. I look forward to getting the necessary forms out of the way and I am awaiting your response.


I also got a new email from the FBI guy:
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Attention : Hoa M. Dung ,

Thanks for getting back to us and just to inform you that we are going to get the person that scam you in jail and all you need to do for us online here is send the conversation between you and the scammer that scam you. And as soon as you do that we can going to refund your money back to you and also tell me the amount you have being scammed before so that we can refund all you money back to you and before we can refund your money back you are going to promise us that you are going to be honest with us online here and not going to talk to any strangers again and as soon as you do that you are going to get your money Immediately is that okay. Please make sure you dont Email or Talk to strangers online and as soon as you do that your money will be refunded back to you is that okay. Waiting for your response...

NOTE : MAKE SURE YOU EMAIL BACK NOW AND LET ME HAVE ALL THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN YOU AND THE SCAMMERS IS THAT OKAY AND AS SOON AS YOU FORWARD THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN YOU AND THE SCAMMERS WE ARE GOING TO GET THEM IN JAIL AND ALSO REFUNDED YOUR MONEY BACK TO YOU IS THAT OKAY...


BTW: I know for sure that the Lawyer and the FBI guy are the same person because I gave them the lawyer a unique fake name. "Dung" hahaha..."poop". And they both refer to me by the same name and make the same grammatical errors. I wonder how far this guy will go and how many useless account I will make him make and how many times I will make him contradict himself. As a result, I replied:

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The alleged "scammers" told me to not trust anybody because they just probably want my money. As a result, I will need you to prove your identity if I am to continue to corporate with you. I will need you to email me a picture of you holding a piece of paper with my name on it. Once you do it, you will have my complete corporation and I will do whatever you say and provide whatever info you need..


*****
A lock that opens to many keys is a bad lock. A key that opens many locks is a master key.
HobbitGotGame
Profile Joined June 2009
Canada178 Posts
October 31 2010 22:28 GMT
#2
Way to potentially mess with that mexican restaurant.
XinRan
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States530 Posts
October 31 2010 22:28 GMT
#3
You're lucky the email was sent by a person, not a bot. If it was a spambot, then your email address would go down as a real address and then it would spam you more. Keep us posted though, this is pretty interesting!
"To be fair, Kal played like absolute garbage. His noted inconsistency and bad record versus Jaedong high fived into a cacophony of suck." - TwoToneTerran
Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
October 31 2010 22:28 GMT
#4
Great idea. =P I'm gonna try something like this next time I get a scam email. Maybe I should forward them to the Canadian embassy? + Show Spoiler +
Rekrul says it's a good idea.
The room is ripe with the stench of bitches!
Nuttyguy
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United Kingdom1526 Posts
October 31 2010 22:32 GMT
#5
a cleary copy of your passport XD
aztrorisk
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States896 Posts
October 31 2010 22:36 GMT
#6
I just updated the blog with a email I received from the alleged bank

HAHAHA, they want to steal my info from my bank account or steal my money
A lock that opens to many keys is a bad lock. A key that opens many locks is a master key.
Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
October 31 2010 22:52 GMT
#7
People really are dumb enough to fall for this stuff, just the other day I read about how some elderly woman gave away her life savings (almost £20000) to some email scam. They convinced her she'd won an Australian lottery and needed to transfer money to pay some legal fees.
No I'm never serious.
Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
October 31 2010 22:56 GMT
#8
On November 01 2010 07:52 Nytefish wrote:
People really are dumb enough to fall for this stuff, just the other day I read about how some elderly woman gave away her life savings (almost £20000) to some email scam. They convinced her she'd won an Australian lottery and needed to transfer money to pay some legal fees.

No big loss. She's elderly, so she wouldn't have needed the money too much longer. = /

Yeah though, these people who fall prey to scams like these are either really stupid, or... No, wait, there's no other option. Stupidity is the only explanation.
The room is ripe with the stench of bitches!
aztrorisk
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States896 Posts
October 31 2010 23:07 GMT
#9
Oh man, this is getting too funny. I just got a email from the same guy under the different account. I know that they are the same person due to their bad grammar. No professional has bad grammar.

This time, he claims to be apart of the "internet FBI" and they want to arrest the 2 people that have been emailing me. But I know that its the same guy because he just copied and paste the description for the FBI website and he has the same bad grammar as the "pretend lawyer". Here is the message:

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Attention : Hoa M. Dung ,

My name is Robert Mueller i was nominated by President George W. Bush and became the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on September 4, 2003.I was born in New York City and grew up outside of Philadelphia. I graduated from Princeton University in 1969 and earned a masters degree in International Relations at New York University in 1970.I joined the United States Marine Corps , where I served as an officer for three years, leading a rifle platoon of the Third Marine Division in Vietnam . I'm the recipient of the Bronze Star , two Navy Commendation Medals, the Purple Heart , and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry............Following military service, I Morgan earned a law degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1976 and served on the Law Review,then after completing my education, i worked as a litigator in San Francisco until 1979 and then served for 15 years in United States Attorney 's Offices, first in the Northern District of California in San Francisco, where I rose to be chief of its criminal division. In 1985, I moved to Boston as an Assistant United States Attorney where I investigated and prosecuted major financial fraud, terrorist and public corruption cases, as well as narcotics conspiracies and international money launderers.After serving as a partner at the Boston law firm of Hill and Barlow , I was again called to public service. In 1992 i served in the United States Department of Justice as an assistant to Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh . The following year I took charge of Criminal Division. During the tenure, I oversaw prosecutions, including the conviction of Panama leader Manuel Noriega , the Lockerbie Pan Am 103 bombing case, and the John Gotti mobster prosecution. In 1994, I was elected Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.In 1996, I became a partner at Boston's Hale and Dorr, specializing in complex white collar crime litigation,then i returned to public service in 1998 as senior litigator in the Homicide Section of the District of Columbia United States Attorney's Office . In 2001, and i was named United States Attorney in San Francisco and held that position until 2004.Then i served as Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice for several months, before I becoming FBI Director in March 3rd 2005,I base in chicago but i go arround the world to go through about fraud...so right now we are out of the States down to western african to go through about those scammers in western africam ,Cos we ve got about 50 e-mail address with us,but some are real and some are scammers ,so we do go through they are IP to know where they are from.......so when we got to western african,we combine with EFFC here,Is like FBI in states ,So they use EFFC here we work together because they are president don't support scammers in his country so he gave us the power and the authourity to look after those scammers and we have been here now for about a Month and we have got alot of scammers and got some information from them.
first .. Mr John Ovia Wema Bank
The investigation of scam and fruad of both in african and usa just get to know the big probelm you are into now since 2month ago now.we want to arrest

1... Mr John Ovia Wema Bank Email Address : wemabankaccountss@yahoo.com
2... david jackson Email Address : davidjacksonbarr172@yahoo.com3... Andrew Emeka Sylvester
4...Apina Akeni

They have been the only problem in your life since they promise to give you fraudulent money which is fake money and The Transfer of the Estate of Late Engr. Steve Moore valued at $27M . but we are the internet F B I security and combination with E F C C in african .So we need to help you alot now so you will never have any problem and you will be save from scam and fraudulent.

AND HERE IS OUR UNITED STATE F.B.I WEB-SITE FOR YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE FOR REAL ONLINE NOT PLAYING GAME WITH YOU ONLINE OKAY.
WEB-SITE : http://www.fbi.gov/libref/directors/directmain.htm

Now the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide, Need more information from you....So that we can get all your money back for you with some interest for you...As from now the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide,....Bcos the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide are after you ......Bcos the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide,Want to save you from Fraudlent and Scam...
So get back to us now immediately you read this email ...So that you can give us more information about this ......So that you will not go to Jail with you .......And you can get all your Lost Money Back.

Thank's
Manager E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide
Robert Mueller .


The only thing I don't understand is what is he trying to achieve by sending me this email.
A lock that opens to many keys is a bad lock. A key that opens many locks is a master key.
NuKedUFirst
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada3139 Posts
October 31 2010 23:09 GMT
#10
i dunno dude, seems legit :O

Wow. What a try hard. loolol.. How do spam bots and retards acquire people email?
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Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
October 31 2010 23:09 GMT
#11
WE ARE FOR REAL ONLINE NOT PLAYING GAME WITH YOU ONLINE OKAY.

This is so awesome.
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aztrorisk
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States896 Posts
October 31 2010 23:14 GMT
#12
i dunno dude, seems legit :O

Wow. What a try hard. loolol.. How do spam bots and retards acquire people email?


Its definitely fake because real gov. official HAS to do everything in a professional manner. As a result, they have to edit their messages. No gov. Official uses, "cos". Obviously a scam.

This is hilarious though.

Its not that hard to acquire people's email. I was on the IRC chat the other day and somebody emailed me a public online list of free emails. I found my email on that list.
A lock that opens to many keys is a bad lock. A key that opens many locks is a master key.
Ancestral
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3230 Posts
October 31 2010 23:47 GMT
#13
AND HERE IS OUR UNITED STATE F.B.I WEB-SITE FOR YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE FOR REAL ONLINE NOT PLAYING GAME WITH YOU ONLINE OKAY.
WEB-SITE

I died ... oh my God that is so funny.
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bbq ftw
Profile Joined September 2010
United States139 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-01 00:44:59
November 01 2010 00:44 GMT
#14
Now the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide, Need more information from you....So that we can get all your money back for you with some interest for you...As from now the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide,....Bcos the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide are after you ......Bcos the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide,Want to save you from Fraudlent and Scam...

The successor to the Bourne trilogy you've all been waiting for...

A mysterious man dies in a car accident, leaving behind 27 MILLION DOLLARS to a stranger over the internet. But the unseen powers are at work. Soon the Asterizk's e-mail inbox is deluged by people from all walks of life. A lawyer, who's past is as much an enigma as the dead man himself. Robert Mueller, a crusader from the FBI, who warns of a rogue division of the FBI, innocuously titled the FBI Internet Research, and the EFCC, targeting our stranger for reasons beyond both's comprehension. Join us on an exhilarating ride as Mueller and generic Asian dodge bad grammar, nefarious schemes, and an angry force behind it all, in America's most anticipated movie since Avatar.

WHAT IS BEING THE EFCC? AND WHAT ARE THEIR'S AGENDA?

WHO THE MEXICAN STORE MANGER IS?

WHO IS BARR DAVID JACKSON? AND WHAT DO ALL THE NUMBERS MEAN????

Starring Matt Damon as Robert Mueller and Will Smith as asterizk ...

"Steve Moore"
IS COMIN TO A THEATR NEAR U FOR REAL OKAY?
Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8031 Posts
November 01 2010 01:12 GMT
#15
Hoa M. Dung,

I just called you now, you picked up the call and i could not understand what you are saying.

Hahahaha. This is pretty much the best possible response you could've gotten. Way to troll your local Mexican restaurant though. =/
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zoOv
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Australia269 Posts
November 01 2010 02:24 GMT
#16
On November 01 2010 09:44 bbq ftw wrote:
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Now the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide, Need more information from you....So that we can get all your money back for you with some interest for you...As from now the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide,....Bcos the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide are after you ......Bcos the E.F.C.C in combination with F.B.I. Internet Research Worldwide,Want to save you from Fraudlent and Scam...

The successor to the Bourne trilogy you've all been waiting for...

A mysterious man dies in a car accident, leaving behind 27 MILLION DOLLARS to a stranger over the internet. But the unseen powers are at work. Soon the Asterizk's e-mail inbox is deluged by people from all walks of life. A lawyer, who's past is as much an enigma as the dead man himself. Robert Mueller, a crusader from the FBI, who warns of a rogue division of the FBI, innocuously titled the FBI Internet Research, and the EFCC, targeting our stranger for reasons beyond both's comprehension. Join us on an exhilarating ride as Mueller and generic Asian dodge bad grammar, nefarious schemes, and an angry force behind it all, in America's most anticipated movie since Avatar.

WHAT IS BEING THE EFCC? AND WHAT ARE THEIR'S AGENDA?

WHO THE MEXICAN STORE MANGER IS?

WHO IS BARR DAVID JACKSON? AND WHAT DO ALL THE NUMBERS MEAN????

Starring Matt Damon as Robert Mueller and Will Smith as asterizk ...

"Steve Moore"
IS COMIN TO A THEATR NEAR U FOR REAL OKAY?


Hahahaha someone should actually make a video trailer. This cracked me up.
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Rinrun
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada3509 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-01 02:31:00
November 01 2010 02:29 GMT
#17
I love it. 5 stars man.

"WE ARE FOR REAL ONLINE NOT PLAYING GAME WITH YOU ONLINE OKAY."

Caps make him seem more legit, I think you should believe him.

Okay, bbq ftw - wins. Need that a movie asap; NOT PLAYING A GAME WITH YOU.
MBC/Liquid/TSM always.
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66156 Posts
November 01 2010 02:31 GMT
#18
oh man, i'm so going to do this
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Zapdos_Smithh
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2620 Posts
November 01 2010 02:36 GMT
#19
This is awesome. Keep us updated asaply here.

By the way, who the hell spells website as "WEB-SITE"? Lol that's terrible.
madnessman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1581 Posts
November 01 2010 02:53 GMT
#20
It's not a good idea to reply to spam dude. Spammers just know that your email is 'active' and you'll end up getting more spam.

AND HERE IS OUR UNITED STATE F.B.I WEB-SITE FOR YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE FOR REAL ONLINE NOT PLAYING GAME WITH YOU ONLINE OKAY.
WEB-SITE : http://www.fbi.gov/libref/directors/directmain.htm


probably makes it all worth it though.
Funnytoss
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Taiwan1471 Posts
November 01 2010 03:33 GMT
#21
If y'all enjoy this kind of thing, you'd probably find this site very entertaining:

http://www.419eater.com/

It's pretty much ALL scam baiting, except the dude is actually able to successfully "reverse-scam" most of the time, mostly with interesting results.
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Ian Ian Ian
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
915 Posts
November 01 2010 03:33 GMT
#22
Yeah you're an idiot for replying in the first place..

I bet you replied actually hoping you'd get money. I just seriously can
t imagine any reason why someone would reply to one of those e-mails, since it is widely known that they are sent my spam bots almost exclusively..

Notice the one guy\s is email is .ja though, so I guess that explains the terrible english..

Wonder what his angle is with the whole FBI thing though..
aztrorisk
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States896 Posts
November 01 2010 04:50 GMT
#23
Yeah you're an idiot for replying in the first place..

I bet you replied actually hoping you'd get money. I just seriously can
t imagine any reason why someone would reply to one of those e-mails, since it is widely known that they are sent my spam bots almost exclusively..

Notice the one guy\s is email is .ja though, so I guess that explains the terrible english..

Wonder what his angle is with the whole FBI thing though..


Actually, I already got a whole mess of these. If I thought I would actually get money, I would've replied to the first scam. If you read my messages, you would see that I was playing with him and I don't believe it. I also know that he's from Africa because that is where most scammers come from.

He pretends to be the FBI to get my personal info because I think he realize that his original scam will not work and this is how he respond.
A lock that opens to many keys is a bad lock. A key that opens many locks is a master key.
Zapdos_Smithh
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2620 Posts
November 01 2010 04:59 GMT
#24
On November 01 2010 12:33 Ian Ian Ian wrote:
Yeah you're an idiot for replying in the first place...


It's for fun! Sheesh.
FractalsOnFire
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia1756 Posts
November 01 2010 05:20 GMT
#25
LOL legend! Ah you made my day 5/5
imPERSONater
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1324 Posts
November 01 2010 07:46 GMT
#26
On November 01 2010 08:47 Ancestral wrote:
AND HERE IS OUR UNITED STATE F.B.I WEB-SITE FOR YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE FOR REAL ONLINE NOT PLAYING GAME WITH YOU ONLINE OKAY.
WEB-SITE

I died ... oh my God that is so funny.


That was so good. Oh man, I am definitely going to keep checking up on this. It seems as though this guy is an idiot and committed which makes for an epic combination :D
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aztrorisk
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States896 Posts
November 02 2010 05:32 GMT
#27
Hey guys, I just got 2 emails from the FBI guy and the lawyer guy. They are at the bottom of the OP and the lawyer guy is just contradicting himself now since they are the same person.

Hehehe, since these people are from africia (hence @yahoo.co.ja) they probably don't own comps and are sending me these emails via phone. LOL, imagine how long it would take them to type all that and how wasteful their time is if they contradict themselves, like the lawyer just did. MUAHAHA
A lock that opens to many keys is a bad lock. A key that opens many locks is a master key.
crazeman
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
664 Posts
November 02 2010 06:04 GMT
#28
One of my friends from a old guild used to do this all the time. He was replying to the scammer, and at some point he accused him of being a robot scammer and asks him for a picture to prove that he is a real person and isn't a robot.

The guild was called "Jesters of War" and a day later, the scammer sent him a picture of himself holding up a sign that says "JoW 4TW".
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