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From: Andrew G. McCabe<[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: 22 Jul 2017 08:41:30 -0400
Subject: Western Union/MoneyGram Scam Victim
FBI Headquarters
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20535 USA
Dear Beneficiary,
After proper and several investigations and research at Western
Union and Money Gram Office, we found your name in Western Union
database among those that have sent money through Western Union
and this proves that you have truly been swindled by those
unscrupulous persons by sending money to them through Western
Union/Money Gram in the course of getting one fund or the other
that is not real.
In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors
of WESTERN UNION, MONEYGRAM, the FBI alongside with the Ministry
of Finance, As a consequence of our investigations it was agreed
that the sum of One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars (U.S.1,500,000.00) should be transferred to you out from
the funds that The United States Department of the Treasury has
set aside as compensation payment for scam victims.
This case would be handled and supervised by the FBI. We have
submitted your details to them so that your funds can be
transferred to you. Contact the Western Union agent office
through the information below:
Contact Person: Betsy D. Holden
Address:Western Union Post Office, California
Email: [email protected]
Yours sincerely,
FBI Acting Director,
Andrew McCabe