There are lots of scammers sending out messages that claim to be from the FBI and with some long winded story about a very large sum of money due to be paid to you.
You just need to confirm your identity to get the money, but on filling in those details you find out there is a “small” payment needed to release the funds and that’s the scam.
There is no large sum of money just a greedy scammer trying to make something from your greed.
This latest message is from idrf.ca @idrf.ca so this scammer doesn’t know how to make his email address actually look like the FBI.
It claims to be from David Lance Bowdich, the Deputy Director of the FBI who is making personal contact with you over two intercepted consignment boxes at JFK Airport, New York.
“The boxes were scanned and they contained large sums of money ($4.1 million), also some backup documents that bear your name as the Beneficiary / Receiver. An investigation was carried out on the diplomat that accompanied the boxes into the United States and he stated that he was to deliver the funds to your residence as an overdue payment owed to you by a foreign country.
After cross-checking all legal documents in the boxes, we found out that your consignment was lacking an important document and we can’t release the boxes to the diplomat until the document is found, we have no other option than to confiscate your consignment.
The email continues with blather about ownership and regulations, trying to look official.
Then comes the kicker.
You are required to reply within 72 hours or you will be prosecuted in a court of law for money laundering, you are instructed to desist from further contact with any bank(s) or person(s) in any part of the world regarding your payment because your consignment has been confiscated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation here in the United States.
It’s just a scam of course – you cannot be prosecuted for money laundering that you haven’t committed and of course there is no consignment of money, just a greedy scammer.
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I also recieved this bogus email
I got this today & I don’t live in USA!
Absolute madness!
From: Agent David Bowdich
Date: 6 November 2020 at 09:03:47 GMT
To: me
Subject: Re: FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI).
Reply-To: [email protected]
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Field Intelligence Groups J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20535
Urgent Attention: Beneficiary,
I am the Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent David Bowdich. We have intercepted and seized two boxes at John F Kennedy International Airport in Jamaica New York, NY 11430 coming from a foreign country. We checked the content of the boxes and found it contained a total sum of 4.1 million dollars. Also one of the boxes was documents with your name on it as the receiver of the money. We progress in our investigations with the diplomat that accompanied the boxes into the United States, we learned that he was to deliver these funds to your residence as payment of an inheritance / winning prize payment due and owed to you.
Further, checks on the consignment show that the consignment paperwork lacked the PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE form. We then confiscated both boxes and released the Diplomat. The boxes according to section 229 subsection 31 of the International Commerce Regulators Code Enforcement Guidelines, your consignment lacks PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE from the joint team of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation and Homeland Security, therefore, you’re replying for direction on how to procure the two certificates, so you can be relieved of the charges of evading tax which is a jail-able offense under section 12 subsection 441 of the taxes code. We will also be asking the IRS to launch an investigation of money laundering if you do not follow our instructions.
You are therefore 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, and you will be prosecuted in the Court of Law for taxing evasion and money laundering. You are also advised not to contact any bank in Africa, Europe or banking institutions for security reasons.
Yours in service,
David Bowdich
Deputy Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
I got this same email. Word for word.
I’ve gotten 2 of these emails in the last few days. Thankfully it went straight to the junk email, but was very curious about it.
I got this nonsense and knew this is a scam. I just had to google it to prove to myself that I am correct and here I am lol
Well spotted!
Just got mine.
But my money’s in a sealed envelope.
Guess I’ll be going back to work tomorrow then.
Ohblahdee Ohblahdah.
(You’d think that the Real David Bowdich would be able to use his FBI skills to bust this guy don’t you?…
I mean Really.
Kind of making me lose faith in the System here Clarice.)
Yes I got one too
Attention: Beneficiary,
I am the Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent David Bowdich. We have intercepted and seized a sealed envelope at John F Kennedy International Airport in Jamaica New York, NY 11430 coming from a foreign country. We checked the content of the sealed envelope and found it contained a total sum of 3.6 million dollars value certified payment bond. Also, the sealed envelope had documents with your name on it as the receiver of the package. We progress in our investigations the sender address that accompanied the sealed envelope into the United States, we learned that it was to deliver this sealed envelope to your residence as payment of an inheritance / winning prize payment due and owed to you.
Further, checks on the sealed envelope show that the sealed envelope paperwork lacked the PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE form. We confiscated the sealed envelope and released the Diplomat. The sealed envelope according to section 229 subsection 31 of the International Commerce Regulators Code Enforcement Guidelines, your sealed envelope lacks PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE since the content is valued financial material of such amount, from the joint team of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation and Homeland Security, therefore, you’re to reply for direction on how to procure the sealed envelope so you can be relieved of the charges of tax evasion which is a jail-able offense under section 12 subsection 441 of the tax code. We will also be asking the IRS to launch an investigation of money laundering if you do not follow our instructions.
You are therefore 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, interrogated and,/or you being prosecuted in the Court of Law for tax evasion and/or money laundering. You are also advised not to contact any bank in Africa, Europe or banking institutions for security reasons.
Yours in service,
David Bowdich
Deputy Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation.