"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.
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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