hit traffic on the Dogger bank, up the Thames to find a taxi rank

Sometimes my spam folder gets some choice, choice things.

Re: Email From The Federal Bureau of Investigation

No, you're not. Stop fibbing.

FBI Deputy Director [paul.m.abbate@jcom.home.ne.jp]

This fellow does not deserve anonymization.

Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 2:43 PMM

Yes. It actually said "PMM".

Reply-To: paul.m.abbate@daum.net

And note the two different email addresses.

Now, they do have one thing correct--Paul. M. Abbate is the current director of the FBI. But that's about all they get right. It's yet another 419 scam.

To: You

I didn't change this part! It came to "You"!

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Field Intelligence Groups The J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20535

Attention: Beneficiary,

Again, this is how it came. Not to me directly, just 'You' and 'Beneficiary'. Another sign it's a scam.

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 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.

And this was the first time Em bent over the keys laughing. "Inheritence/winning prize payment". Really. Well, which is it, Paul? You're the director of the FBI, right? You think you'd know.

The two consignment boxes' paperwork lacks the PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE forms.

PFFFFFFT.

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.

Suuuure you will.

You are required to reply within 72 hours.

Bite me.

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/or you being prosecuted in a court of law for tax evasion and/or money laundering.

No, it won't, no, it won't, and no, it won't, because this is a scam. Get real. People actually fall for this nonsense?

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.

If I thought any money was actually in jeopardy, I might care, but it's not, so I don't.

Yours in Service,

No, you're not.

Paul M. Abbate
The Deputy Director of the FBI

And no you're not.

But I did have fun reading through this, so thanks for that.