Is this a joke? Everyone read now need advice asap :)

[Mark Evison]

Just had this sent by the fbi? endded up in my junk mail has anyone else got one of these?
Your attention is needed immediately

We have been informed through our global intelligence monitoring network that the sum of $10.500, 000.00, has been released from a bank in Africa bearing your name as the beneficiary without dist certificate to clear your name and fund from every terrorist or drug or money laundering activities

We sincerely apologize for sending you this sensitive information via e-mail instead of a certified mail, phone call or a face-to-face conversation,We will also send you a certified email later it is due to the urgency and importance of the security information needed. To checkmate financial recklessness, illegal gambling, racketeering and considering the effect of the global financial crisis rocking the United States, our government with the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I) Washington, DC and the internet crime complaint center (ic3),alongside the CIA signed an agreement with U.K police for an immediate release of all overdue funds presently logged in their treasury and to ensure it is disbursed to the rightful beneficiaries in all parts of the world. If you the beneficiary would adhere to our instruction it will help you receive your payment immediately

The bank knowing fully well that they do not have enough facilities to make this payment from any part of the world to your account directly, used what we know as a secret diplomatic transit payment (s.d.t.p) method to make the payment. direct transfers are difficult and secret diplomatic transit payment (s.d.t.p) are not usually made unless the funds are related to terrorist activities and we ask why must your payment be made in a secret transfer if your transaction is legitimate.

We do not want you to get into trouble as soon as these funds reflect in your personal account, so it is our duty as an international agency to correct these little problems before this fund reflects into your personal account.


we advise you to contact us immediately, as your funds have been stopped and are being held in our custody, until you are able to provide us with the dist certificate within 3 days from the country that authorized the transfer to certify that the funds that you are about to receive are terrorist/drug free or we shall have cause to impound the payment and subsequently prosecute you for cross border terrorist financial activites.

based on our findings, our investigative department wish to warn you against some miscreants, hoodlums and touts who go about scamming innocent people by claiming to be who they are not and thereby tarnishing the image of this wonderful country. By sending out fraudulent emails without our official logo and emblem we shall release your funds immediately we receive this legal document and we will ensure that you receive your payment without any further delay.

Note

We decided to contact you directly by email to acquire the proper verifications and proof from you to show that you are the rightful person to receive this fund, because of the huge amount involved. Be informed that the funds are now with a top bank in the united state in your name and under the monitoring/custody of the FBI. At the moment, we have asked the bank not to release the fund to anybody that comes to them, unless we instruct them to do so, and only if we receive the dist certificate this is to enable us carry out a comprehensive investigation first before releasing the fund to you.

hence, you are to forward your dist certificate to us immediately if you have it in your possession, if you do not have it, then let us know so that we will direct you to the appropriate authority to obtain the certificate then you are to send it to our office. And thereafter, we will instruct the bank holding the funds, to go ahead and credit your account immediately. If you fail to provide the documents to this office, we will prosecute you and take appropriate action against you for not proving the legality of the funds.

Finally if you truly want to receive this funds without F.B.I troubles then reconfirm the following below

Name………………………………………………….
Address………………………………………………..
Sex………………………………………………………
Age............................................... ..........................
Contact number………………………………………..
Country of origin of funds……………………………..

[XPCobra]

Of course it's a scam, Only had to read the first 2-3 lines.

[Handyandy-UK]

Ahh... the good old Nigerian money laundering phishing scam .... this is without doubt one of the oldest ate most blatantly pathetic attempts at online crime going.

Long story short ... DELETE


The spelling is terrible.... grammar is awful.... and the story wouldn't make Bollywood, let alone a Hollywood B-movie.

[Mark Evison]

Ill just ignore it then lol never happened to me before as im always a good boy lol. Thought i was gonna be lucky and get 10 million quid then gutted

[Mark-R]

I get them some times i just delete them the other ones i get is the ones where there tuck in England and need some money to get home i just laugh and say to my self away you will stay stuck.

[Handyandy-UK]

The worst part is that the muppets who send these things out actually believe this is a believable story that will net them a mass of money. Sadly, some people are gullible enough to fall for them, but in general it's no wonder their home countries are a mess if this is the kind of morons they turn out.

[Hideous]

tl;dr
but it's a scam (saw the $10,500,000 and "africa" then stopped). seen dozens like that in my email box. can report it as a "phishing scam" for what it's worth.

[Johnsdutton]

Really I thought that was for real, it's amazing what some people will try these days.

[Handyandy-UK]

If it seems too good to be true .... IT IS.

[the_wave_rider]

Scam like 99% of the rubbish you get through from emails

I get one quite often from a woman that has 2 months to live and has to give me millions because her husband left her it and the tax man and blah blah blah.......been getting it for the last 3 odd years. Thought she would have been dead by now with only two months to live.