Is this scam ?

Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:10:27 +0200
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Attention : Special Counsel for Fraud Prevention[FBI RESCUE TEAMS]


FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION [FBI]

Washington Dc

Room , 7367

J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building

935 Malvern,

Avenue NW Washington, DC 20535
Special Counsel for Fraud Prevention [RESCUE TEAMS]
Fraud Section of the Criminal Division.



Attention:



This is to inform you that we are monitoring your transaction with many fraudsters/ scammers. We have the whole details in our office and wish to notify you that they are not genuine unless only one that we have noted from our investigation and that is BANK ALFINDO SEJAHTERA, PT INDONESIA.

BANK ALFINDO SEJAHTERA, PT INDONESIA. is the only legitimate and authentic transaction among all the transactions you have had with many international online transaction, confirm from our network system and has screened through our various monitoring networks and has confirm the transaction you have with the BANK ALFINDO SEJAHTERA, PT INDONESIA, It is legal and you have the lawful right to claim your fund which has stayed in that bank for long now.

We advise you to go ahead with the above named bank and do what is required of you to get your fund transferred to your nominated local bank account for your project as we are monitoring all the bank’s services and network.

Follow their procedures. They have their own legal procedure which we have examined and confirmed legal.

So follow their instructions while you keep us updated. You are covered and remember that FBI is watching.





Thank you ,



Mr. Kelvin Montréal.
Special Counsel for Fraud Prevention [RESCUE TEAMS].
[USA UNIT]

It sounds like it is highly sus. You will find the bank is real but the offer is not!
re: [FBI RESCUE TEAMS] I've never heard of such a thing? There may be like a hostage rescue department or some such within the organisation, but would have no connection to scamming. So mentioning the rescue team is not condusive to any reality from what I see.
Without going into specifics, the email is all wrong! Scammers also piggyback on well known companies, so any info sent will be instead gathered by the fraudulant tricksters.

re: through our various monitoring networks and has confirm the transaction you have with the BANK ALFINDO SEJAHTERA, PT INDONESIA, It is legal and you have the lawful right to claim your fund which has stayed in that bank for long now. The question here is why not send you compensation directly (if there is any)??
But to clear any confusion, once money has been sent to a scammer via WU/ moneygram it's highly unlikely of any recovery. Unless the transfer is stopped before collection.
What does it have to do with the fbi and a bank?
What does the email header tell you?
It will be a great idea to stop any further communications with the trickster.
If you have any further info, it would be worth posting it.

Yes, it is a scam. The FBI does not email individuals our of the blue. This is a set up for a Recovery Scam. They are targeting people who have been scammed and will promise to get their lost money back. The problem is, they will say they need money to get your money for you.

They cannot do this and all that will happen is the victim will lose more money.

PS, the FBI does not use hotmail to send or receive email communications.