# Federal Bureau of Investigation ## Identification [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] is the U.S. federal investigative agency; [[Internet Crime Complaint Center|IC3]] is its online intake mechanism for internet-enabled crime complaints; [[United States Department of Justice|DOJ]] is the cabinet department that routes federal fraud reporting and prosecution resources. The telephone channels are intentionally not reproduced. ## Notebook evidence - [[Scanned_20260730-1659#PDF page 2 — Federal fraud-reporting contacts and IC3|PDF page 2: Federal fraud-reporting contacts and IC3]] — This page establishes an **incident-response front door**. `ic3.gov` is the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, the federal intake portal for suspected internet-enabled crime; the DOJ separately routes fraud reports by category. The copied telephone channels show the author building redundant escalation paths rather than relying on one website. The page likely predates or accompanies a specific fraud concern, but no victim, transaction, or allegation is identified here. ## Relationships and overlays The source places this record in an evidence cluster with [[Fraud Reporting|Fraud Reporting]] · [[Internet Crime Complaint Center|Internet Crime Complaint Center]] · [[United States Department of Justice|United States Department of Justice]]. The occurrence contributes to the notebook's larger model of [[Identity Continuity|identity continuity]], [[Device Sovereignty|device sovereignty]], and [[Continuity Architecture|continuity architecture]]. ## Evidentiary status and open leads Recover the precipitating incident, complaint number, or adjacent correspondence; preserve the distinction between IC3 intake and DOJ category routing. ## Source - [[Scanned_20260730-1659|Scanned_20260730-1659]] ## Scanned_20260730-1830 overlay [[Scanned_20260730-1830]] adds two institutionally distinct FBI layers. PDF page 1 places the Bureau in the Crossfire Hurricane → Mueller → Durham sequence, an investigation followed by review of its origins and conduct. PDF pages 9–16 place the Bureau in the [[April 2022 FISC Section 702 Opinion|Section 702 query-compliance]] sequence. These records should not be merged into one allegation. Opening or participating in an investigation, possessing access to lawfully acquired Section 702 information, performing a repository query, and complying with the applicable query standard are separate events. The FISC opinion documents categories of noncompliant querying and remediation; it does not establish that every query returned results or that any specific vault subject was affected. ## Scanned_20260803-1201 overlay PDF page 49 of [[Scanned_20260803-1201]] preserves a historical FBI business card identifying [[Index - People#Amy L. Mentzel|Amy L. Mentzel]] as a special agent. A handwritten Texas number appears on the card but remains redacted and is not assumed to be the printed agent's current line. The card establishes a preserved institutional contact artifact. It does not establish a complaint, case, REDACTED, active representation, or FBI conclusion concerning any event in the packet.