WARNING: These are scams. They are Emails sent to a honeytrap address only ever used for this purpose. Do not reply to these people, they will try to con you into paying out money in return for nothing.
CAVEAT: Please note that some of these Emails may be impersonating a genuine company or person. We wish to make it clear that any such name mentioned within these Emails has no connection to the scam. For the sake of searching, we leave these messages untouched, but we will respond to any concerns left in our comments.
From: "Africa Development Bank"<[email protected]>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 05:23:16 -0700
Subject: HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO RECEIVE YOUR FUNDS?????i
Risk & Compliance Officer Africa Development Bank.
Dear Friend,
Im Mr. Miki Williams, a Special investigator by profession and the
compliance & Risk officer with the First Bank of Nigeria PLC, based on
the nature of my department I work hand in hand with several financial
institutes and also financial Fraud Unit of the Criminal Investigation
Division (CID). I specialize in Background Investigations on funds and
I notice that you have being receiving numerous emails from people who
claims to have funds coming to you but I advise that if youre still in
communication with any of them on issues of funds however, youre
hereby advise to stop every communication right now because those
people has being investigated and confirmed to be a Fraud.
I wish to announce our successful investigation which I believe will
bring joy to your family however; I guess it will interest you to know
why this investigation was conducted. For your information, it was
truly confirmed that you have 100% Legitimate unpaid transaction and
you have every right to claim this funds as you have been verified to
be the right Beneficiary of the said amount US10.8M, however Due to
the delay of getting this funds to you, your funds has Accumulated an
accrued interest of US2.8M over the years because of its unpaid
status.
It must interest you that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and
the United Nations oversight office have instructed that this accrued
interest amount of US2.8M be released to you without any further
delay. Right now, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has confirmed
this funds to be 100 % legitimate after all investigation which was
carried out to make sure that this funds get directly to you the
beneficiary, however, Im informing you this today because I came to
notice that youre not communicating with a legitimate person who is in
charge of getting these funds to you.
This announcement has to be made open to you however because you may
have being swindled by those unscrupulous people whom you have sent
money in the course of getting this funds, it is very important you
reconfirm your details such as, 1, Your Full names, 2, Your Direct
Phone Numbers, 3, Your Full Address, 4, A copy of your identification
to enable me pass my recommendation to the right authority to start
immediate process for the payment of your accused interest of US2.8M.
Regards,
Mr. Miki Williams
Risk & Compliance Officer Africa Development Bank