How would ou find out if someone is actually a FBI agent when he e-mails you?

Answer 1

With 36 years of government law enforcement we do not email you unless we have already made personal contact with you. We do not call unless we have already made personal contact with you or are setting up a meeting with you.

Keep the email and call your local FBI office. That office will give you a gov email message to forward the one you received.

Answer 2

The easiest way to verify this is to call your local FBI office and describe the EMAIL you received.

While it would be unusual for an FBI agent to EMAIL you, there is nothing improper about it. You did not say what he wanted. Maybe an EMAIL address is all he had to go by. If I was an investigator, and all I had was the EMAIL address of a potential witness, I would try EMAILing that person as the easiest way to establish contact, rather than expending the effort to get a subpoena for subscriber information for that EMAIL address. If the alleged agent did not give you his office telephone numbers in the EMAIL (which you would be able to easily verify) and ask you to call him, then I would agree with the others that it is probably a scam.

Answer 3

Why would an FBI agent email you? Most business they transact will be either in person or sometimes over the phone. I would not believe anyone who told me that they were a Law Enforcement Officer in an email.

Did it have a .gov email address?

Answer 4

You need to find where he works out of, City, and then call the FBI in that city and see if they will tell you if he assigned to that office. They may ar may not tell you

Answer 5

Let me guess. . .

He wants you to assist him in setting up a sting, using your bank account number or credit card?

Call you local FBI office (number in phone book) and tell them about this fine, upstanding agent. I'll bet they will be real interested.

Answer 6

FBI WILL NOT CONTACT YOU VIA E MAIL. TO UN SECURE. THEY WILL CALL OR WRITE OR COME AND SEE YOU PERSONALLY NOW.