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From: "Mr. Steve Cox"< info@ hannamsm.com>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 07:49:50 -0500
Subject: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
_Federal Bureau of Investigation_
_Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division J. Edgar. Hoover
Building Washington DC Chris Swecker,_
_Attention Beneficiary,_
_Records show that you are among one of the individuals and
organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from
overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and
Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have noticed that you
have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been
impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo /Mr. Lamido Sanusi of the
Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank,
Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Kelvin Young
of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some
impostors claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation._
_The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the
Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how some people have lost
outrageous sums of money to these impostors. As a result of this, we
hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to
you by us. We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance
that your payment totaling $5,900,000.00(Five Million Nine Hundred
Thousand Dollars). will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM
card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $15,000 a day which is powered
by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world where you see a
Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM)._
_We guarantee receipt of your payment. This is as a result of the
mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owned to citizens of
American and also Asia and Europe which includes Inheritance,
Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared._
_To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card
Center via email for their requirement to proceed and procure your
Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order
on your behalf which will cost you $390 Usd only and nothing more as
everything else has been taken care of by the Federal Government
including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever
need to pay is $350.00 only._
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_Mr.Steve Cox(ATM Card Center Director)_
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_WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535_
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_ATM Card Center Director_
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_Email:[email protected]_
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_Do contact of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above
and furnish him with your details as listed below:_
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_FULL NAMES: ___________________________________
_DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD: ___________________
_DATE OF BIRTH: ___________________
_OCCUPATION: ___________________
_TELEPHONE NUMBER: ______________________
_EMAIL ADDRESS: ______________________
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_On contacting him with your details your file would be updated and
he will be sending you the payment information in which you will use
in making payment of $390.00 via Money Gram or Western Union Money
Transfer for the procurement of your Approval of Payment Warrant and
Endorsement of your ATM Release Order, after which the delivery of
your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without
any further delay, extra fee._
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_Andrew McCabe, DIRECTOR_
_FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION_
_WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535_
_Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices
claiming to be in posses of the ATM card center who is the
rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward
any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon
it immediately.Help stop cyber crime._
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