14 DAY TRIAL // Internet users might find in their inboxes a message that allegedly comes from the Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, threatening them with imprisonment if they didn't pay a certain amount of money.
This turns out to be a scam in which someone invested a lot of effort, since the email makes numerous threats that are very likely to attract some attention.
Cyberwarzone provided a copy of such a fake email in which an FBI agent that considers himself a “good Christian and an honest man” is giving the recipients a last chance after they failed to answer to previous inquiries.
The victim is actually accused of plotting with a Nigerian man in what seems to be a classic 419 scam.
The weird thing is that the recipient is given two options. He either pays $99 (70 EUR) and receives a compensation fee of $10 million (700,000 EUR), or he is fired, arrested and have his bank account forcefully emptied.
“Note/ all the crimes agencies have been contacted on this regards and we shall trace and arrest you if you disregard this instructions,” the so-called agent warns.
The message threatens that even the FBI's director knows of the situation and that he's really set on arresting the user that got the email. Furthermore, they are prepared to contact the victim's employer to make sure he remains jobless.
“We would also send a letter to the company/agency that you are working for so that they could get you fired until we are through with our investigations because a suspect is not suppose to be working for the government or any private organization,” reads the phony email.
This is one of the most outrageously funny fake notices I've ever seen, but with the large number of threats someone could actually believe the FBI is after them.
Users are advised to avoid such emails since state law enforcement officials have a lot of better things to do than to go around threatening people after which handing them over millions.