Just got this email today...


Federal Bureau of Investigation
Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division
J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington DC
ROBERT S. MUELLER,

Attention Beneficiary,

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling,Contract and Inheritance. 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 Prof. Soludo/Mr.Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some impostors claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors. As a result of this, we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us. We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $5,900,000.00(Five Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars). will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $15,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world where you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM).

We guarantee receipt of your payment. This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed to citizens of American and also Asia and Europe which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared. Below are few list of tracking numbers you can track from Delivery Company website to confirm people like you who have received their payment successfully.

Name: GERALD D. WARNER FedEx Tracking number 875777537332 (www.fedex.com)

Name: Dale Wayne Rivard DHL Tracking Number: 1747843624 (www.dhl.com)

To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card Center via email for their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf which will cost you $200 Usd only and nothing more as everything else has been taken care of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $200.00 only.

Lord Ruben (ATM Card Center Director)
Central Bank of Nigeria
Central Business District,
Cad astral Zone, federal
Capital Territory,
Nigeria.
ATM Card Center Director Lord Ruben
Email: fbi15@yahoo.cn
Phone: +234-813-112-1034

Do contact Lord Ruben of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as listed below:

FULL NAMES: __________________________________
DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD: __________________
SEX: _______________
DATE OF BIRTH: __________________
OCCUPATION: __________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER: _____________________
EMAIL ADDRESS: _____________________

On contacting him with your details your file would be updated and he will be sending you the payment information in which you will use in making payment of $200.00 via MoneyGram or Western Union Money Transfer for the procurement of your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order, after which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay, extra fee.

ROBERT S. MUELLER,
DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535


Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM card, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Lord Ruben of the ATM card center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime

Sadly, there will be some silly enough to try and answer it.

This stuff has been going on for about 30 years and amounts to at least 25 % of Nigeria's income !!
It has changed as new technology has been introduced .
But -- The old saying , " there's a sucker born every minute "

Watch "Craig's list " as well.We sold a piano;they sent more $$ than the agreed upon price (to pay the movers)Cashiers check,looked good,bank agreed.It was NOT good. You cash the check,they pick up the merchandise + you PAY the movers.Triple whammy.Watch out Amigos.

Some may, but not all. This one is comical.

Guy called me today; could hardly speak English. He knew my name and address -- I thought it might be a new client or something, so I listened, but first asked him who he was. He said he was "Mr. Murphy". I guess some Irishmen procreated in India, so I continued to listen.

First story was he had a certified package for me. I said I was not expecting a certified package and he said I had one and he needed "just a little information." I told him I didn't want the package and hung up.

He called back. Now he had a better offer -- a car. He had a car to deliver to me -- just wanted to drop it off. When I wouldn't give him any information for a car, he said I had won $2.5 million dollars in a sweepstakes (which I never entered of course). Wanted me to get on a website to "give him some verifying information" of course.

No, they are not getting better -- at least not this guy. Why don't they at least come out with their best offer first?

The world has become a nasty and dangerous place. I'm leaving.

Once again,as everyone knows that I am a "Peanuts" fan.
I recall when Lucy was totally pissed about too many people on this planet,etc. To which Linus replied "Why don't you leave?"