Attention:

This is an official letter from the FBI. it has come to our notice that bank of Nigeria has released 10,500,000.00 U.S dollars. To bank of America in your name as the beneficiary, By Inheritance means. The bank of Nigeria knowing fully well that they do not have the ability to effect this Payment through the United Kingdom directly to your account, used what we know as a “secret diplomatic transit payment” (S.D.T.P) method to pay this fund by Wire transfer. They have used this means to complete the payment and they are waiting for confirmation from you on your transferred funds; Secret diplomatic payments are not made unless the funds are related to terrorist activities.

The question i ask you is this, why must your payment be made in a secret transfer, if the transaction is Legitimate, if you are not a terrorist, then why did you not receive the money directly into your account? Why did you instruct them to use a coded means to effect your Payment? In the past funds like this have always been related to terrorist activities/money laundering, we do not want you to get into trouble as soon as these funds are credited into your account Because you might be innocent, which is my presumption for now, but you need to proof that you are innocent.

It is our duty to correct this anomaly before this fund is Credited to your personal account. F.B.I has stopped the transfer of US$10,500,000.00 Million through a secured diplomatic transit account (S.D.T.A).that was used to wire this fund to you.note We oversee funds Transfer for the World Bank. So we advice you to contact us immediately, as your funds have been stopped And are being held in our custody, and until you provide us with the diplomatic immunity seal of transfer (DIST) document that accompanied your funds within the next 3 days. we will keep your funds in a suspense account

To proof to us that the funds you are receiving from Nigeria is terrorist/drug free and not proceeds from money laundering in connivance with the known corrupt government officials Of Nigeria. Failure to produce the DIST document, We shall have cause to impound the transfer and prosecute you for criminal offense, but on the contrary we will release your funds immediately we receive the DIST document. We have decided to contact you directly by email because of time as a major factor, Acquire the proper document as proof to show to us that you are The rightful person to receive this fund,

We want to certify the legitimacy of this funds you are about to receive. Note that 10,500,000.00 U.S dollars is already in Sherman Texas branch of the Bank of America now in your favor, but we have asked them not to demand from you your local bank account information, to do final crediting to you, because we need a solid proof From you before releasing the funds, to this effect, you are to proof to us that what you are about to receive is legitimate by sending to us your Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) document to certify that the fund is not for terrorism/money laundering. If it’s in your possession you are to Forward the documents to us immediately if you don’t have it let us know so that we can direct your where to get it.

This Documents will be issued from the Bank That authorized the transfer, so get back to us immediately if you don’t have the document so that we can direct you to a particular office where you can obtain the document. {Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer document),

The DIST is very important. Because the DIST document guarantees you of the under listed

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60t it guarantees the Beneficiary Credit payment is Irrevocable
61h it guarantees the Beneficiary has full power to receive the funds without further scrutiny
62j it guarantees the Beneficiary bank can either be in USA/UK/OUTSIDE or anywhere the beneficiary is and can receive his/her payment in any country of full residency
64t it guarantees the Beneficiary has cleared all bank protocols and validation has been authenticated
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You should reply immediately with this needed document if you really want to receive your transferred funds we intercepted

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

cc: Canadian police association
cc: general intelligence department (GID)
cc: Asia pacific group on money laundering (APG)
cc: federal bureau of investigation (FBI USA)
hrt

This post was submitted by Lee.

Good Day,

Thank you so much for your interest in our Nanny advert placed on Craigslist. My Name is Mr. Michael Gruny and my wife’s name is Patricia Gruny with our first daughter Michelle Gruny. Presently my wife is 4 months pregnant for the second born and we are in the process of re-locating from Scotland to your city. I will as well appreciate if you can recommend a good doctor for her when we arrived. I will be coming there with my family to work on contract basis with United States Environmental Protection Agency on a private research work. I need someone who can help my wife with some sort of the household chores running some errands when necessary and taking care of my daughter “Michelle”. Taking care of her as your daughter from Mondays through Fridays. You would only be needed for Just 3hrs daily at your convenience and I will like you to get back to me with your available time.

Michelle is just 6yrs of Age, She’s a talented child and very bright. She loves and very kind. I will be needing your services till the end of the year even continue next year but I’m offering $360.00 per week as weekly pay for a trustworthy and honest Nanny. I have a Personal Assistant who is helping me with the re-locating process. It’s okay if you prefer to be a live-in or live-out Nanny as i can drop her at your home everyday and will greatly appreciate if you will be delighted to accept this offer as we would be arriving soon.

If you accept this position, I will instruct my financier Assistant to forward to you a Certified Check for your first week upfront payment which will be forwarded to you either by FedEx or USPS so that i can be rest assured of your availability for this job and i wouldn’t need to be searching for a nanny anymore. I will as well run a background check on you because it’s not easy to leave a child with someone just like that and i hope you understand my concerns.

If this employment opportunity is acceptable by you, I will like you to say YES and E-mail me back ASAP with the required information below for confirmation and further proceedings to take place:

– Your Full Name
– Your Mailing Address (No Po Box Please)
– City:
– State :
– Zip Code :
– Your Phone Number (Both home and Cell)

Our expected arrival date is 10Th February, 2012. But you will be paid beginning immediately, as i will have several small assignments for you to complete prior to our arrival, such as checking our new apartment for necessary supplies, purchasing what may be needed before our arrival, etc. All we asked from you is complete honesty and sincerity. And I’m very sure you will enjoy the time you will spend with my daughter and everyone of us generally.

Please do get in touch on time so that we can start making arrangements with our traveling agency while i await your swift response regards this employment offer and the requested details.

Best Regards,
Mr & Mrs Gruny.
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Good Morning,

How are you doing today? I want to use this opportunity to inform you that my financier will be mailing you a check payment of ($2,885.69) soon, finally it will get delivered to your door step on or before Friday. Once you received the check, firstly deduct your first week payment which is $360 then the rest of the fund which supposed to be budget for the Foodstuffs and other things that will be needed in our Apartment should be pend for now. Reason for this is that we are still going to balance our Traveling Agent in order to accomplished all necessary documents that are needed to back up our traveling down to the State.

Having deducted $360 your own first week Nanny service charges, then you will be sending the rest of the funds to the traveling agent via western union through any Western Union Transfer Agent around you. I hope you have a Western Union agent close to you where you can execute the Western Union Transfer to the Traveling Agent so he can be able to Ship us all the Documents that will back up our Traveling from Scotland down to the State. If you can be able to complete this assignment for me and my wife i will compensate you an extra amount of $100 for rendering your Assistant for me, my wife and my daughter. I should have the fund across to the traveling agent myself but i run out funds here.

I hope i can trust and count on you with the money you are sending to the agent for our Traveling Documents? And i will be looking forward to see you on our arrival date. I hope when my wife and daughter arrived they will be in good hands.

Thank you and God bless. Soon i will email you the FedEx/USPS Tracking number of the payment package once the check payment have been written and mail out to you by the Financier. I will email you the Tracking number of the payment package for you to know the exact delivery date and time of the check Payment. I will do this once the Financier have sent me the Tracking Number information. Also the keys and and address of the apartment we are going to be living when we get to the city will be mailed to you 3 days prior to our arrival date. You will be receiving the keys and address of the apartment for you to do some lite cleaning and supervision on the Furniture that are moving down to the apartment for Installation by the furniture Company.

Finally, do not forget that our arrival date is 10Th of February, 2012. As you can see is getting much closer to us. Please get back to me once you received this message.

Thanks and God bless you.

Best Regards,
Mr & Mrs Gruny.

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Good Morning,

This is to let you know that in my next mail i will be sending you the FedEx Tracking Number of the payment package and the Western Union Information of the Traveling Agent where the rest of the money will be sent to after you might have deducted your first week payment so the agent can mail you the keys and address of the apartment. Also may i not fail to let you know that, there is one furniture company that will be moving down our furniture’s to the apartment soon but i will let you know when they are coming for installation. All you need to do is to go ahead to the apartment and welcome them however allow them to move-in the furniture into the apartment. But i believe before the furniture Installation you should have the keys and address of the apartment so whenever the furniture company comes for delivery of the furniture you will be able to open the doors to the apartment for them and let them fix the necessary things and make sure you monitor them properly.

Finally I’m using this time to share Picture of me, my wife and my daughter with you for recognition. Check the attached file to look at the picture of my family.

I hope you read and understand this message. E-mail me back right away for confirmation that you received my mail with the picture.

Many thanks from,
Mr. & Mrs Gruny.

This post was submitted by Mel.

This post was submitted by JOHN THOKCHOM,MANIPUR,INDIA.

Must have a valid driver’s license, a clean driving record.
At least 21 years old,Clean driving record.
Excellent problem solving ability.
Excellent communication skills.
Personal/commercial driving experience within the last year.
History of being a dependable employee.

Compensation: $500 Weekly
Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or
commercial interests.
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Well as usual it sounded too good to be true.Being the optimist I am, I responded with a few questions and no personal info. Then I got his/her response.

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From:tompowell@banview.net
Dear Applicant ,

Thanks for your response to the driving job. I am Tom Powell by name and I reside in Delaware. My wife Sharon Powell and I will be relocating over to your location and so we will be in need of a driver. Our journey would mainly be around the business district within the city and also around town to leisure spots when we are less busy.

After getting your response, my wife and I will prepared a structured out work schedule for you that would not be too stressful.

We would like for you to confirm the following questions :

1.Would you be available to drive us for at least 20 hours each week
2.Where do you stay ?
3.Will you be available for us some weekends too if we let you know before hand?
4.We would need you to drive us for two shifts each weekend. what i mean by this is that, we would need you to tell us whether you would be available for either (morning and afternoon) or (afternoon and evening) or (morning and evening) 3hours each shift .

You would also pick us from the Airport and I will tell you the name of the Airport as we proceed. Our arrival date would be in two weeks will confirm our precise ticket date and let you have the details in due time. We will be getting you a car and we are offering you $500 weekly. In order to be sure that we are getting your service, we will like to give you your first week pay upfront.

Kindly get back to us so that we can give you further details

Regards
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First I googled his and his wife’s name and the state….no luck…BUT there was a Tom and Sharon Powell in Idaho. There is a nice picture of an older man named Tom and his wife Sharon at a legit real estate website…so it appeared this scammer did a tiny bit of homework but got his states mixed up….
BUT …having his email address in my gmail inbox I was able to use my computer skills and trace the origin of his ISP ….NO SURPRISE…it was Laos, Nigeria….It will be fun if he responds to my last batch of questions because I asked for specific dates of their arrival, and which airport they’d be arriving at AND since he offered $500 up front (to insure my service…LOL) I said I presume your $500 advance will be in cash upon our meeting at the airport, right?….ANYWAY, Here is a copy of the IP-address tracer I got:
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At Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:58:34 -0500, the email sender tompowell@banview.net sent you an email from the IP address 41.71.149.139 located in Nigeria, Lagos.
Email Sender: tompowell@banview.net [more info]
IP address: 41.71.149.139
IP address country: Nigeria
IP address state: Lagos
IP address city: Lagos
IP address latitude: 6.4531
IP address longitude: 3.3958
ISP of this IP: Visafone Communications Limited
Organization: Visafone Communications Limited
Local Time of this IP country: 2012-01-27 07:32

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In fact if you need more to be convinced…this address ALSO gives you a satellite view of the exact location in Laos, Nigeria where the email was sent from!

http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/41.71.149.139

I’m happy to post his next reply if you’d like….I may just string him along for a laugh….

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This post was submitted by John Thokchom.

This post was submitted by susan rivera.

Just wanting to help,

This post was submitted by Gene McNeely.

Hello,
How are you doing ? Am currently seeking a part time worker for
my company which I have been running for the past few years , My Name
is Nicole Smith. I am a payroll Manager , I do payroll accounting and
audit for companies, I am currently seeking a data entry typist
assistant from home in any part of the state, you could be a
receptionist, data entry typist, a clerk, a stay at home mom, a
student or anybody who has a computer experience with a computer
connected with internet at home who want to work on a part time basis
and earn extra income.

Moreover, I required a person who will be honest, trustworthy
and able to work from home, and who will also handle the printing of
letters, notes and checks with the data information of people on
payroll list of each company I work for and I will handle the UPS,
FedEx or Usps account label which will be made for you to dispatch the
letters, notes and checks to various destinations, I will like to know
if you will be trustworthy enough to entrust mine and my clients
company’s vital information’s and signatory with you, please I want
you to be sure that I will be paying you $1,000 monthly salary for a
start, if you performed very well, I will increase your salary to
$1200 and to $1,500 as time goes on, please get back to me today to
know your interest. Here are the requirements needed.

REQUIREMENTS:
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•You will need to have constant Internet access to work on this Job**
•A colored printer and MICR ink.
•{ VersaCheck Gold 2012 and Versa Paper ( Type: Business Form #3000 )
as your working kit’}
•You will be making use of the courier services to dispatch the
letters, notes and checks.

Note: You can get them in any Staples store, Office Max, Office Depot
or Wal mart and Our company will reimbursed you back with the money
used in buying the items above to your first pay.

You can email me back as soon as possible and I will let you know
when to start working from the comfort of your home at the most
convenient time for you (you will only be working 3 to 4 hours per
each day you choose to work in a week) and you will be earning $1,000
or more every month. You can start today if you are ready with all the
items needed for the job, Please do have a nice day while I wait for
your response on the job offered.

I will be expecting your response.
Contact
Nicole.

They choice famous names to confuse your research. However, I do know enough about payroll that I did a search on their needs and I found a similar person that going for the same lines; only different names.

This post was submitted by Angela Baker.

This post was submitted by john thokchom.

Thanks For your Quick Response….We are ready to offer you this
position.We required a person who is honest, trustworthy and able to
work hard, who can handle the printing of Payroll-Checks with the data
information of our client on payroll list of the company co-workers
and which will be done under the authorization of the company which is
legalized by Government in which we will be made for you to dispatch
the checks to our client various destinations and we will take care of
the shipping and handling of the payrolls you are dropping off.
Secondly, you are only to do these two processes, printing and
dispatching, so we will like to know if you will be trustworthy enough
to entrust mine and my clients company’s vital information and
signatory with you and the material you don’t have, we want you to
get it and get back to me so that we can start working.

So if you are ready, here are the list of materials you will need to
start the job:

• 2011 Versa gold software
• Business Check Paper (Blue Prestige Form #1000/1)
• Magnetic Ink

After that You will have to pick up some Ups and Fedex Letter Size
Envelopes with Ups and Fedex Airway bill forms like 50 to 100 pieces
from Ups drop off locations (it should be free) You can purchase the
materials as stated earlier from local store in your city, any Office
Max or Wal-Mart store around you to purchase the materials. or you can
get it online from www.officemax.com You.. can email me back as soon
as possible also to get back to you with the application form with the
job approval.

Note: You will be reimbursed for the materials when paying your first
monthly or weekly salary which is $800 in every 2 weeks or $1600
monthly

Email me back if you are interested and time you will get the
material so that we can figure thing out as soon as possible.

I will be waiting to hear back from you soon

Thanks
I await your response soon..

Harris Payroll & Associates.
Mark Harris
C.E.O
All rights reserved.

This post was submitted by bee hawkins.