I received the same e-mail this morning...the email was sent to my work. I re-routed it to my personal email address and requested backup documentation.. they have been calling my at work for about a year now and my job called the police and they spoke to the individual and they hung up on the police. THey quite for awhile and I had to change my bank information and phone number. I think when people report them they move around and change their number.
It must be a great day for all of us to get this crap!!! I received the same email word for word, yes it is a lie and a scam. DO NOT RESPOND FOR ANY REASON, THE CALL COMES OUT OF MIAMI FLORIDA BUT MY GUESS IT IS ROUTED FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY SUCH AS INDIA AND AFRICA. Yesterday I got a call from a man under another phone number who said about the same thing so I had his number blocked on both of my phones (cell and home). Just so you know there is a man called or so his says his name is William Tanner and his number is 567-251-7777 and he also trying to scam people so be really careful and NEVER RESPOND TO THESE PEOPLE.
I got the exact same email , wording , everything the same , I do have a loan out so at first I was a bit scared , I wrote back and then got stupid emails back saying to get a prepaid card and send the name , amount BLAH BLAH ! I reported the email , cant get phone calls from them no phone , I just dont understand how they keep doing this !!