If you have received email from James Comey email address imfheadoffice@globomail.com , Beware of the sender as numerous scam emails has been sent by this particular individual. Emails like these are designed to commit online frauds and steal identity. Do not fall victim of identity theft. identity theft is common over Internet. For awareness purpose the scam email is pasted below.
from: FBI Office office1fbi@yahoo.fr
reply-to: imfheadoffice@globomail.com
to:
date: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:23 AM
subject: Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
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
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 wined, 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 here
by 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,
(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 your
transaction In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be
required to contact the agent in-charge ( Mr.Mark Ben ) via e-mail. Kindly
look below to find appropriate contact information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: Mr. Mark Ben
E-MAIL (imfheadoffice@globomail.com)
PHONE: +22999511139
You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
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.
This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau of Investigation
is authorizing you to pay the required $96.00 ONLY to Mr. Mark Ben
information in which he shall send to you,
Federal Bureau of Investigation F B I
James Comey,
Director Office of Public Affairs
Welcome once more to FBI www.fbi.gov
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