FAKE FBI Headquarters

We noticed that the last FBI scam letter wanted $180. Is the FBI having a sale? Lol or have the scammers become more desperate? This was sent from henry@henryben.tk

On Sat Jul 9th, 2011 6:43 AM CDT FBI OFFICE wrote:

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>Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
>FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
>Federal Bureau Of Investigation
>J.Edgar Hoover Building
>935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
>www.fbi.gov
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>ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY
>This e-mail has been issued to you in order to Officially inform you that we
>have completed an investigation on an International Payment in which was
>issued to you by an International Lottery Company. With the help of our newly
>developed technology (International Monitoring Network System) we discovered
>that your e-mail address was automatically selected by an Online Balloting
>System, this has legally won you the sum of $2.4million USD from a Lottery
>Company outside the United States of America. During our investigation we
>discovered that your e-mail won the money from an Online Balloting System and
>we have authorized this winning to be paid to you via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED
>BANK DRAFT.
>
>Normally, it will take up to 5 business days for an INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED
>BANK DRAFT by your local bank. We have successfully notified this company on
>your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a registered bank within the world
>winde, so as to enable you cash the check instantly without any delay,
>henceforth the stated amount of $2.4million USD has been deposited with IMF .
>
>We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to receive
>the winning prize as we have verified the entire transaction to be Safe and
>100% risk free, due to the fact that the funds have been deposited with IMF
>you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the Lottery
>Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in Cotonou, Benin
>Republic. According to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the
>following,
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>(1) Deposit Fee's ( IMF INTERNATIONAL CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE )
>(2) Shipping Fee's ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's Check to
>your home address)
>
>The total amount for everything is $96.00 We have tried our possible best to
>indicate that this $96.00 should be deducted from your winning prize but we
>found out that the funds have already been deposited IMF and cannot be
>accessed by anyone apart from you the winner, therefore you will be required
>to pay the required fee's to the Agent in-charge of this transaction
>In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact the
>agent in-charge ( Mr Henry Ben) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find
>appropriate contact information:
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>CONTACT AGENT NAME: Mr Henry Ben
>E-MAIL : imf@office8.tk
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> PHONE NUMBER: +22996499818
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>You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:
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>FULL NAME:
>ADDRESS:
>CITY:
>STATE:
>ZIP CODE:
>DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
>OCCUPATION:
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>You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram details on
>how to send the required $96.00 in order to immediately ship your prize of
>$2.4million USD via INTERNATIONAL CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT from IMF, also include
>the following transaction code in order for him to immediately identify this
>transaction : EA2948-910.
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>This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is
>authorizing you to pay the required $96.00 ONLY to Mr Henry Ben via
>information in which he shall send to you,
>
>Mr. Robert Mueller
>Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
>Yours in Service,Photograph of Director
>Robert S. Mueller, IIIRobert S. Mueller,
>III Director Office of Public Affairs
>Welcome once more to FBI www.fbi.gov
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