WARNING: The FBI wants to talk to YOU!

I have seen these, but deleted them unopened, so I wasn't really aware of the contents, but figured it was something along those lines. I figure if the FBI or any other law enforcement types want a sitdown, then they will come to visit in person, and not through an email. I have also gotten email from various government officials, and of course many foreign ones as well... and a whole lot of people in Nigeria. Fortunately, Gmail has an excellent spam filter, although I do have to occasionally rescue some things from it. The sad thing part is that there are people stupid enough to fall for these scams, and that is the reason they are around. I wonder how many people actually send money to these crooks?

LOL, I'm sure if the FBI wanted my information they'd have my direct line by now!!!! What a bunch Of B.S. You try to help some poor diplomat from Nigeria get their money out of the country & just look what it gets you......

I can tell you from actual experience; if the FBI wants to talk to you they do not send emails. (Let's face it; if they sent you an email and you were guilty; you would be skipping town immediately and disappearing. The FBI is smarter than that!) What does happen if they want to talk to you is they will come and knock on your door (home or office) and introduce themselves - "Hello, my name is Special Agent _________ from the FBI and I would like a few minutes of your time." That is what they did when they were looking for the people who used to rent an office space next to my office. "Why doesn't the real FBI arrest these clowns?" - Simple, time and money. There are so many other cases that they are investigating and helping local authorities with that they have a dollar limit on the cases they get involved in. If the crooks are stealing more than that limit; it is not cost effective to go after them.

Had to take a minute to go load my shotgun. I never open those kinds of emails anyway, unless they're sent by someone I know. Many of them contain viruses.

I am inclined to agree with you about it being a scam. If the FBI were coming to get you I'm sure the first we would know about it is them breaking down the door! I'm sure they won't be sending out warning emails!

It amazes me how many people still fall for this type of scam. People should know by now not to follow those links and not to freely hand out their information. But it's still happening. The scammers still manage to persuade people not only via email but also over the phone. Thanks for the warning. I hope it will save some people from being scammed;)

The real FBI doesn't arrest them because they are in Nigeria. It is a real drag to get such emails from them scammers. I wish everyone would only delete them and NEVER fall for it because then they will give up if no one in the world ever fell for their stupid tricks anymore.

I applaud you in your attempt to protect ignoramus from themselves but ignoramus because they are ignorant. The only reason that an E-mail like this would work in the first place is because there are individuals out there that would fall for a scam like this. It is supply verses demand in a nut shell, enough ignoramus that would fall for anything enough intelligent individuals out there to take advantage of the ignorant.

There is no way any email, regardless of who is is supposed to be from, would get me to divulge any type of personal or financial information.

Ok, I have now learnt about it, and will be alert. But what are they up to? What does they want. From a bank statement anyone cannot access the account. They need signatures and account numbers, and passwords for that. did they do any harm to anybody?

I've been playing with these freaks off and on as part of a scam fighting site for over a year now and the FBI email is my favorite one! You can always tell a foreign scammer because they use phrases like "our dear country" or "our lovely citizens"...things we don't say here. There's a lot of scams out there.

I find it hard to believe anyone would be stupid enough to fall for this scam. I've been receiving emails lately telling me my computer is hacked and if I'll download instructions and send them my password it will be "fixed." Yea, right. Now tell me about that bridge you've got for sale too will ya? :P LOL

FBI come after me by sending me a mail to warn me , that will be nice ! No wonder we have so many criminals walking around free. lol!!!Thank for the warning ,FBI.

I would say the FBI probably has accessed this information long before the person in question would have been notified. It would be necessary for their case against you. I don't know why more people don't use snopes.com. A lot of people could save their money and identities so easily.