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From: "Mr. FOREIGN PAYMENT DEPARTMENT" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 08:10:39 +0100
Subject: ATTENTION : ACCOUNT OWNER,
Eco Bank PLC Benin Rue Du Gouverneur
Bayol 0!Bp 1280 Cotonou Benin
Republic. Phone number+229-98243164
[email protected]
Attn: Beneficiary.
My name is Mr Jonas Gomez Director Foreign Operations Some documents and letters were forwarded and received in our office here requesting that your on hold and unclaimed funds be paid to Messrs Jacobs Enterprises from Texas USA. In the said letter of change of beneficiary/ownership, representatives of Messrs Jacobs Enterprises states that you are dead and as such your funds should be paid to him as the next of kin to you. Because of the elaborate global scam, we decided to contact you for confirmation. If after two(2) working days, no response is received from you, it will be assumed that you are dead and as such, authorization and approval will be granted on behalf of Messrs Jacobs Enterprises to claim/receive your fund.
At this spot in time, we have approved your payment of( $10.5m us dollars )through our swift card payment center as that is the most recent instruction by the Federal Ministry of Finance, with incorporate of united nation, this card center will send you an inter switch powered ATM visa card for withdrawal of funds from any ATM station in any part of the world with daily maximum withdrawal limit of only Five Thousand Dollars per day, if you like to be given you fund in this manner, gently present us with the following information below:
Reconfirm the following Information to me if you are still willing to receive your funds:
1) Email address………..
2) Phone, fax and mobile #.
3) company's name,position and address.
4) profession, age and marital status.
5) Copy of int'l passport or any scanned identity to prove yourself.
Also, let us know how you want your funds paid to you without further delay if you are still alive. Send your response immediately.
Regards
Mr Jonas Gomez
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