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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOMG! I'm under investigation for tax evasion and money laundering!
Well, according to this email I just got. Lemme show it to ya...
We sincerely apologize for sending you this sensitive information via e-mail instead of certified mail, post-mail, phone, or face-to-face conversation. It's due to the urgency and importance of the security information of our citizens. I am the deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Paul M. Abbate. We intercepted and seized two consignment boxes at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, NY 11430, coming from a foreign I checked the content of the two consignment boxes and found they contained the sum of US$4.1 million dollars in value of certified payment bond. Also, the two consignment boxes had documents with your name on them as the receiver of the package. After questioning the diplomat that accompanied the two consignment boxes into the United States, we learned that he was to deliver these two consignment boxes to your residence as an inheritance/winning prize payment due to you.
The two consignment boxes' paperwork lacks the PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE forms. We confiscated the two consignment boxes and released the diplomat. According to section 229, subsection 31 of the International Commerce Regulators Code Enforcement Guidelines, the sealed envelope lacks PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE. Since the content is valued financial material of such an amount by the joint team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security, you're to reply for direction on how to procure the two consignment boxes and be relieved of the charge of tax evasion, which is a jailable offense under section 12 subsection 441 of the tax code. We will also be asking the IRS to launch an investigation into money laundering if you do not follow our instructions.
You are required to reply within 72 hours. At that point, I will walk you through the process of clearing and claiming the money. Failure to comply may lead to your arrest, interrogation, or being prosecuted in a court of law for tax evasion and/or money laundering. You are also instructed to desist from further contact with any bank(s) or person(s) in the United States, the United Kingdom, or any part of the world regarding your fund because your payment has been confiscated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation here in the United States.
Yours in Service,
Paul M. Abbate
The Deputy Director of the FBI
The scambuster websites are on this one. Apparently you have to buy the two documents they claim are missing for $550.
Yeah, I think I'm gonna let this one go.
Farmer-Rick
(10,206 posts)About a month ago in my email too.
I love how they threaten you with arrest, interrogation and prosecution for some obviously imaginary $4.1 million. Stupid criminals, the bad English is a dead giveaway.
Funny, I might have been slightly concerned about it if I hadn't watched a show on catfishing that did a very similar con to their victim.
It's a shame some poor person is going to fall for this con eventually.
Shermann
(7,428 posts)CloudWatcher
(1,851 posts)A Powerball ticket has a tiny but non-zero chance of paying out. This scam is a simply a zero percent.
Shermann
(7,428 posts)TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,317 posts)and this was the first thing that came up:
https://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=100951&mobile=on
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Just because they have the name correct, you still can tell by the way it's plotted out, it's a scam.
Like when someone does a redirect or pretends to be your bank or the IRS, let the institution know. If they are already investigating it, you add to the proof it's being done. If they aren't, you might get a cookie for being the first to bring a case to their attention.
ALSO it covers your ASSETS by showing that you reported it as a fraud, so if they somehow still manage to use your information, your liability is limited.
Who is to say the scam recovery group isn't just as crooked as the original scammers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Abbate
https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/safety-resources/scams-and-safety
Mr.Bill
(24,317 posts)already aware of it if it's that prominent on Google.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)Or not.
I'm just glad that you didn't click on anything that could have compromised your system and gotten your info.
Evolve Dammit
(16,760 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Just sign the boxes over to me.
keithbvadu2
(36,890 posts)Sign them over to Trump or a televangelist.
Captain Zero
(6,823 posts)there.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,574 posts)Young or old.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Tell them you are a dildo salesman and you do free sizing. Keep calling back.
FakeNoose
(32,737 posts)Wow, you must be really important.
bucolic_frolic
(43,266 posts)rpannier
(24,337 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,266 posts)IronLionZion
(45,523 posts)This link has info on where to report scams. Especially government imposters demanding money.
rpannier
(24,337 posts)You are also instructed to desist from further contact with any bank(s) or person(s) in the United States, the United Kingdom, or any part of the world regarding your fund
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)That the Federal Government would use an email address to contact someone under investigation? Wow - pull the other one
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)Doesn't he have a cousin or something that's a Nigerian prince in exile? Either that or he's Trump's latest fundraiser.
COL Mustard
(5,920 posts)Don't forget about the time we were in Vung Tau and I loaned you $35. You swore you would pay me back, and now would be a perfect time!
niyad
(113,546 posts)gristy
(10,667 posts)Chellee
(2,101 posts)The Deputy Director of the FBI is personally checking boxes at JFK airport? Weird. You'd think he'd be busier, and use junior staff for the legwork. And he's taken such a personal interest in you too. Keeping you out of the hoosegow, making sure you get a shit ton of money. And all you have to do is exactly as he says, and tell no one. That is not suspicious at all.