URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED

Just got this in my email
"they" like me" and I belive my email address is been sold from one to another scammer.

anyway, here it is

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION [[email protected]]
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington DC ROBERT S. MUELLER,

Attention Beneficiary,

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have noticed that you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo/Mr.Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some impostors claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors. As a result of this, we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us. We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $2,000,000.00 will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $15,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world where you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM).

To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to contact Mr Patrick Osas of the ATM Card Center via email below for their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf.

MR. Patrick Osas (ATM Card Center Director) Central Bank of Nigeria Central Business District, Cad astral Zone, federal Capital Territory, Nigeria.
ATM Card Center Director Mr. Patrick Osas
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +234-705-5839-721

Do contact Mr.Patrick Osas of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as listed below:

FULL NAMES: __________________________________
DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD: __________________
SEX: _______________
DATE OF BIRTH: __________________
OCCUPATION: __________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER: _____________________ EMAIL ADDRESS: _____________________

Yours Sincerely,

ROBERT S. MUELLER,
DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

What I am wondering is, how do they proceed in getting the AFF from me?
What is the recommended NEXT step?
Delete the email and do nothing?
Do something!

Hi Borderline,

In this case the AFF (advance fee fraud, for those who may not know the abbreviation) will come in as some kind of processing fee which is necessary to issue or activate the (imaginary) ATM card. There are a variety of ways this is done, sometimes it's presented as an expensive secure courier service, other times legal services required to issue the card, and a number of others.

Our advice is to delete the email and do nothing - once your address is on the scammers' mailing lists there's not much you can do to get off them.

If you are intent on messing with the scammers instead, such discussion is not welcome on this site. However our sister site 419eater.com is all about that topic, if you wish to pursue those directions.

Hi Borderline. Yes I agree. It is not an e-mail from the fbi. It's from a silly scammer living in the realms of fantasy. It is simply better to delete and forget about it. As Gus stated, once a scammer has your email address on their list you are powerless to remove it. I myself still receive the odd scammer writing to me, almost 3 years on. It's good that you know how scams work and what to watch out for.