"Mr. David Lance Bowdich" Advance Fee Scams Being Sent by Online Scammers

The fake "Mr. David Lance Bowdich" email below is a scam. Recipients are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by scammers who are attempting to trick their potential victims into sending them money or personal information by impersonating someone else. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and one of the most common types of confidence trick. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster requires in order to obtain the large sum.

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Mr. David Lance Bowdich Advance Fee Scams Being Sent by Online Scammers

The "Mr. David Lance Bowdich" Advance-Fee Scam

From: "Mr. David L. Bowdich" <test@zos-v.ru>

To: Recipients <test@zos-v.ru>

Date: March 14, 2019 at 10:20 AM

Subject: ATTN: Beneficiary.

ATTN: Beneficiary.

According to the ethics of an office, introduction is always very important on a first contact like this. I am Mr. David Lance Bowdich, (FBI) Deputy Director. This Official Memorandum is to inform you that we discovered that some officials whom work under the United States government have attempted to divert your ATM CARD Valued US$5,500,000.00 through a back-door channel. We actually discovered this today, through our Secret Agents under the Disciplinary Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after we apprehended a suspect.

The mentioned suspect was apprehended at the United States-Mexico border, as he attempted to divert your ATM CARD Valued US$5,500,000.00 outside the shores of USA to Mexico. In respect to the money laundering decree of United States, such amount of money cannot be moved outside United States because such attempt is a criminal offense and is punishable under the money laundering act of 1982 of United States of America. This decree is a globalize law applicable in most developed countries in order to check-mate terrorism and money laundering.

From our gathered information here in this Unit, we discovered that the said Funds in question actually belongs to you, but it had been purposely delayed because the officials in charge of your Payment are into some sort of irregularities which is totally against the ethics of any Payment institution. Presently, this said Funds is under the custody of the Paying Bank and I can assure you that your Funds will be released via atm card to you without a hitch provided that you are sincere to us in this matter. Also, we require your positive co-operation at every level because we are closely monitoring this very transaction in order to avert the bad eggs in our society of today.

12th March 2019, we have instructed the Executive management of the Paying Bank to Release your ATM card to you as the certified Beneficiary in question, because we have valuable information's/records to authenticity that the said Funds truly belongs to you. Be that as it may, you are required to provide us with below listed information's (for official verification).

1. First Name, Middle Name and Last Name.

2. Age.

3. Occupation.

4. Marital Status.

5. Direct Telephone/Fax Number.

6. Residential address.

Email me back the above required details at:

We await your immediate compliance to this official obligation, so that you can be paid by authorized Paying Bank.

Officially Sealed.

Mr.David L. Bowdich.

Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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November 5, 2020 at 2:29 PM by
"Mr. David Lance Bowdich" Advance Fee Scams Being Sent by Online Scammers
an anonymous user from: Oak Park, Illinois, United States

Received the SCAM letter today, Nov. 4, 2020.

Do people really believe these?

Delete

September 2, 2020 at 8:37 PM by
"Mr. David Lance Bowdich" Advance Fee Scams Being Sent by Online Scammers
an anonymous user from: St Louis, Missouri, United States

I got this exact email on 08/07/2020 and showed it to my wife and she being very smart and witty yelled SCAM and delete that piece of trash. I hope no one got scammed by this email as they make it look very professional with a nice Red Heading to get your attention.

Here's a copy:

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Field Intelligence Groups J. Edgar Hoover Building

935 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20535

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 that contained the sum of 4.1 million dollars. Also, inside one of the boxes was documents with your name as the receiver of the money. After interrogating the diplomat, we learned that he was to deliver these funds to your residence as an inheritance / winning prize payment due / owed to you.

Further checks show that the consignment paperwork lacks the PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE. We then confiscate both boxes and release 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, reply for direction on how to procure the two certificates, so you will be relieved of the charges for evading tax which is a jailable offense under section 12 subsection 441 of the tax code. We will ask the IRS to launch an investigation for money laundering if you do not follow our instructions.

You're therefore instructed to reply within 72 hours at that point I will walk you through the process of clearing your name. Failure to comply may lead to your arrest, interrogation, and/or you being prosecuted in the Court of Law for tax evasion and money laundering. You're 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.

Delete

February 4, 2020 at 7:29 AM by
"Mr. David Lance Bowdich" Advance Fee Scams Being Sent by Online Scammers
info

"From: David Lance Bowdich <bowdichd@investigation.net>

Sent: Friday, January 31, 2020 10:35 PM

To: Me

Subject: Re: FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI)..

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, within one of the boxes were 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 you arrested, interrogation and/or you being prosecuted in the Court of Law for taxing evasion and/or money laundering. You are also advised not to contact any bank in Africa, Europe or banking institution for security reasons.

Yours in service,

David Bowdich

Deputy Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation."

Here is another scam.

Delete

April 9, 2019 at 9:20 PM by
"Mr. David Lance Bowdich" Advance Fee Scams Being Sent by Online Scammers
an anonymous user from: Seattle, Washington, United States

The letter I got said they intercepted a box with 4.1 million and some other documents.

Delete

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