After sorting out the debacle with the blocked notifications last week, I realised that things had gone quiet yet again. This time, I can’t necessarily blame WordPress, though on principle, I might anyway. Suddenly, three-quarters of my notification emails were going direct to the spam folder. My apologies for all the posts I appear to have missed. There were hundreds in there. Thankfully, I empty the folder every couple of days and always check. It could have been worse.
I duly sorted through the hundreds of messages that were lurking, sending all the good stuff back to my inbox where it belongs and consigning the rest to Hades. Except one… a ‘new’ scam to me, though it appears to have been around for quite some time in various formats.
I honestly can’t see how anyone could be expected to fall for it, but the threat of lawbreaking and punishment could well frighten some into responding. “If we can’t tempt you through greed, let’s try scaring the living daylights out of you.”
Scammers, along with the stalkers, are the scum of the earth.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Field Intelligence Groups J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C.
Attention: Beneficiary,
Move this email to your inbox before responding by clicking Not Spam, 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 Agent Mark Giuliano from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Field Intelligence Groups (FIGs). We intercepted two 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. 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 at your residence as an overdue payment owed to you by 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.
According to Internal Revenue Code (IRC) in Title 26 also contain reporting requirement on a Form 8300, Report of Cash Payment Over $10,000 Received in a Trade or Business, money laundering activity may violate 18 USC §1956, 18 USC 1957, 18 USC 1960, and provision of Title 31, and 26 USC 6050I of the United States Code (USC), this section will discuss only those money laundering and currency violation under the jurisdiction of IRS, your consignment lacks proof of ownership certificate from the joint team of IRS and IRC, you’re requested to reply back immediately for direction on how to procure the fund ownership certificate to avoid being charge for evading the law, which is punishable offense in the United States.
You are required to reply within 72hours or you will be prosecuted in a court of law for money laundering, you are instructed to desist from further contacts 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.
Yours In Service,
Agent Mark Giuliano
Regional Deputy Director
Field Intelligence Groups (FIGs)
Press a button or two to share... go on, make my day :)
Related
About Sue Vincent
Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
whoa…scam it is……but wouldn’t it be fun if it was true? Great idea for fiction. 🙂
LikeLike
Fiction is all it is good for 🙂
LikeLike
its sad that there is always some sucker who will fall for what looks like a get-rich-quick-scheme. 🙂
LikeLike
Or in this case, be so frightened they are sucked in.
LikeLike
yes, that’s the problem….there’s a scam going around where a caller threatens IRS action… anything from a call out of the blue I just assume is a scam and hang up.
LikeLike
Usually I do too… and usually with reason.
LikeLike
WOW – That’s a doozy Sue – I guess you’re not going to be a millionaire now 😄😄😄
LikeLiked by 1 person
Apparently not, Chris… but then, I doubt I would want to be. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Spoken like a true non-buyer of Lottery tickets Sue 😄😄😄
LikeLike
However did you guess 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’m not lucky at lotteries either 🤔😄
LikeLike
Ah well, someone has to lose 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
😄😘
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hate, spammers, scanners and phishers!!
LikeLike
Yep, all cut from the same cloth.
LikeLiked by 1 person
And need to be stitched up!!
LikeLike
Something like that 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I get these same scum on the telephone,too . I think there have been at least half a dozen fake calls this morning alone, starting around 8am and the last being a couple of minutes ago. They generate fake phone numbers that sometimes appear to be legit, but never are.
My spam filters are pretty good for the most part. Sometimes, like yours, they go into hyper-vigilant mode and decide all my friends are suspicious. Sometimes they spam ME, even though it’s MY account. This happens on Google AND WordPress.
The spammer scammers I truly detest the most are the ones supposedly collecting money for charity (typically, these days, breast cancer). How do those people look in the mirror? Maybe they don’t look in mirrors!
Over here, we’ve been going through a crazily busy period. I’m barely keeping up. The rest of my life is banging on the door. I can’t keep pretending I don’t hear it. But I’d rather be blogging 🙂
What’s really weird and also funny is that a fake FBI spammer hit you in England. The FBI has no authority over money or any place outside the U.S.. The real agency would be customs or Secret Service (who care for the Treasury, not just the President and VIPs). NEVER by email. Likely, something like that (a bit suspicious, eh?) would go through your government or Interpol. Don’t these guys watch TV?
LikeLike
You would think they would have something more interesting to do with their lives, but sadly, thir persistence means they must be making money from the whole sordid affair.
LikeLike
It’s just so irritating! I always wonder how anyone can fall for such nonsense.
LikeLike
But they must, or the scammers wouldn’t keep trying.
LikeLike
Sue, the money launderer ! Shame on you. ☺
LikeLike
Only when I forget to empty my pockets before the wash 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
Reblogged this on Anita Dawes & Jaye Marie.
LikeLike
Ah ah ah. They get so creative in their nonesense
LikeLike
This one, as Chris said, is a doozy.
LikeLike
I always get such pathetic stuff but unfortunately the spammer does not work that well and it spams other things too based on code words. I am not sure what they are but they seem to include anything about paying something or that has words like immediate attention, urgent, etc. I have to keep browsing through my junk folder too…
LikeLike
It is always a good idea to check what’s in there before pressing ’empty’… there are too many glitches as you say that spam the stuff we need to know about.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh my goodness–a “doozy” indeed!
LikeLike
Sadly..
LikeLike
😦
LikeLiked by 1 person
I haven’t received this one, but I get one a week of the same ilk. A lot of them originate in Nigeria, which apparently in the world center for these phishing e-mails. Good grief, Just reading it gave me a headache.
LikeLike
Same here, Noelle. The trouble is that when you get legitimate emails from Nigeria now, there is always the suspicion they may not be genuine. The School has one of its longest standing and most dedicated students in Nigeria… and we could easily have dismissed that initial email or seen it spammed.
LikeLike
Esp. interesting as you are a resident of the UK. But imagine some US elderly or not so savvy person opening that one up! Like Noelle, I usually see the Nigerian ones. The internet has both good and bad, you have to choose which side you are going to live on, I guess. 🙂
LikeLike
There seems to be a fashion for country hopping with the origins of these things… first Nigeria, then the US, then the eastern European countries… This one is particularly nasty as you say, as it could be really frightening for a less savvy reader.
The internet is one of the most fabulous things we have invented…and the best illustration of how morality orks in practice.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Here’s a laugh – I looked at your last sentence and I thought, ‘orks?’ Must be British slang – tried to google it and only came up with Lord of the Rings fictional characters, then I realized it was your flying fingers omitting the ‘w’! ;D
So after all that – I totally agree!
LikeLike
Oh bugger 🙂 Thanks, Eliza 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂
LikeLike
Since I work in academia, I get a lot of junk mail about suspicious conferences, especially those in India or other countries. I don’t even open them if they are in the spam folder.
LikeLike
Normally I wouldn’t either, Noah. This one intrigued me enough to peek. They are just dreadful bits of predation on the vulnerable.
LikeLike
Gosh Sue – that is quite a scary one! I am constantly clearing out SEO web admin ones and have now started receiving the old blue pill ones, I thought they’d died out years ago, clearly not. Lol KL ❤
LikeLike
The spam box can be quite entertaining… but some of these are downright despicable.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Some of the spam I get is funny, and very clever but they often let themselves down with their spelling or addressing you ‘Hello Dear,’ and ‘I am the King of Spain,’ which is a bit of a giveaway. I was recently proposed to by a 4* USA General who had seen my photo and fallen instantly in love with me and wanted to marry me. He wanted a new wife for his 10 children and I looked like I might produce strong, healthy sons….given I am not of that age any longer it rang alarm bells…lol. Plus he had used the photo of General Colin Powell and we all know him. Drat!
LikeLike
I’ve had a few of those. Even I, who don’t watch TV, am familiar with the faces of the celebrities they adopt… ridiculous.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I know. They must think we are all as thick as they are. lol
LikeLike
I’m not sure that’s possible 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
LOL
LikeLike
🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
This would make a great opening for a Thriller, Sue (not that I would even attempt to write one).
I get similar emails every day, but most do end up in the spam folder (thank goodness). However, the latest one annoying me is the phone one where they leave you a message saying they tried delivering an important package to you and to call them back immediately. Of course, the number they gave is a premium line, some that charge £5 per minute (but they don’t tell you that).
LikeLike
They have great ingenuity, I’ll give them taht. Pity they take the ‘easy’ route with it instead of puuting it to service in writing or some other creative art.
LikeLike
Unbelievable. Just when we think we’ve heard it all. The other day I had a psychic leave a lengthy message right under one of my posts on Google, saying she sensed negative energy around me and was drawn to me. My finances are a mess and a lover has cheated on me because of this. But she could help by cleaning and healing some of my gold jewelry with diamonds in it. Really?
LikeLike
They are incredibly inventive.
LikeLiked by 1 person
😦 x
LikeLiked by 1 person
I heard a theory some years back about how these pustulent pieces of primordial scum operate … it goes something like this. They are aware that the average person doesn’t fall for their BS, so they deliberately include the ‘tells’ that most people spot, typos, grammar, wildly idiotic claims, etc, but those who are more vulnerable due to, lack of education, unfamiliar with the language, etc buy right into.
LikeLike
It wouldn’t surprise me at all. They are completely unprincipled.
LikeLike