The fake "Barrister Edward Williams" email below is an advance-fee 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. 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 "Compensation For Being A Scam Victim" Advance-Fee Scam
From: "FBI INVESTIGATION ON ALL FOREIGN PAYMENT"<simon@joy.ocn.ne.jp>
Date: February 22, 2019 at 3:26:17 PM MST
Subject: ($2,600,000.00 USD) Compensation For Being A Scam Victim
Reply-To: <111111dajacks@gmail.com>
Our Ref: RTB /SNT/STB
To: Beneficiary;
This is FBI special agents, David Jackson. I was delegated along side others by the United Nations to come over to Africa to investigate fraudsters who had been in the business of swindling foreigners especially those that has one form of transaction / contracts and another. Please be informed that in the course of our investigation, we detected that your name and details in our Scammed Monitoring Network. We also found out that you were scammed of a huge sum of money by impostors via Western union and Money Gram. Be informed here that in a bid to alleviate the suffering of scammed victims, the United Nations initiated this compensation program and therefore, you are entitled to the sum of Two Million Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($2,600,000.00 USD) for being a victim.
Note that the said fund will be officially released to you through the paying bank mandated by the United Nations.
However, we have to inform you that we have been able to arrest some of the swindlers who has been in this illicit business and will all be prosecuted accordingly. Be informed as well that we have limited time to stay back here, so we will advice that you urgently respond to this message ASAP. And do not inform any of the people that collected money from you before now about this new development to avoid jeopardizing our investigation. All you need to do is to follow our instruction and receive your compensation accordingly as directed by the United Nations. We urgently wait to receive your response.
Reply to: dajacks111@gmail.com
Regards,
DAVID JACKSON
FBI INVESTIGATION ON ALL FOREIGN PAYMENT.