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The "Office Of The Attorney General" Advance Fee Scams Being Sent by Online Scammers

The fake "Office Of The Attorney General" 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 impersonating the real person and who are attempting to trick their potential victims into sending them money or personal information. 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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An "Office Of The Attorney General" Advance-Fee Scam

From: Mr William Barr - iiiiiiiiii@world.ocn.ne.jp

Date: April 8, 2019 at 2:27:03 PM MST

Subject: OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Reply-To: Mr William Barr - williambarr992@gmail.com

U.S. Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington,DC 20530-0001

https://www.justice.gov/ag

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

This email message came to you from the office of I, Mr William P.Barr, the Attorney general of United state of America. I know it might sound strange to You that A high official personnel like me is contacting you via email but am hereby to intimate you of a very important information which will be a great help to redeem you from all the difficulties you have been experiencing in getting your fund. I resumes this office as the 86th Attorney General of UNITED STATE OF AMERICA after the suspension of the formal Attorney General Mr. Jeff sessions who was fired by the President. the 68-year-old to take charge of the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. Definitely this is not your first time of receiving emails from a high government officials about your fund transaction because During my official research with CSI AND CIA servers i found out that you have been receiving countless emails and calls daily from many people of different offices requesting your personal information in order to send your fund to you. Truly, there was a fund of twenty million United States dollars in your name but those emails and calls you’re receiving is not from a real source/office and guess why you haven’t receive your fund up to this moment ? During my official research in the office i discovered a Bank draft valued sum of TWENTY MILLION USD ($20,000,000.00) which was brought by US Embassy in Benin Republic to the White House of Washington DC Belonging to you as the rightful intimate Beneficiary.

Thereafter, I tried to know why the Bank draft was not released to you and i was told by the Vice President that the former Attorney General Mr.Jeff Sessions who left this office withhold your Bank draft for his own personal interest without knowing that his evil plans towards diverting your fund will be discovered, and his actions gave the internet fraudsters the privilege of impersonating on many high officials of different offices claiming they had your fund while their game plan is to extort your hard earn money. It is a pleasure and privileged for me to reach you through email to let you know that the Bank draft is still available and ready for your receiving which i have already contracted with the UNITED STATE POSTAL SERVICE Company to deliver the Bank draft directly to your home address once you get back to me with the required information's below:

Your address

Telephone or Mobile phone number

Your full name and occupation

Date of Birth

As soon as the above mentioned information is received, i will personally deposit your Bank draft with USPS and more details on how your Bank draft will be deliver shall made known to you as soon as i receive your swift positive Response.

Thank you for your understanding.

Best Regard

Mr William Barr.

United States Attorney General.

Do you have any questions? The Department may be contacted by phone at the following:

Department Comment Line: (206) 257-2546 leave your message.

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