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From: John Ramon <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:37:04 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: URGENT REPLY IS NEEDED FOR YOUR ($2.5 MILLION)
URGENT REPLY IS NEEDED FOR YOUR ($2.5 MILLION)
ATTENTIONFrom Money Gram Office
We sent you mail on march 16th 2018 and no respond so now we do apologize for our late response. Secondly, I am Dr. John Ramon, the Managing Director Money Gram Transfer office Benin Republic.The transfer of your funds has commenced today with your first payment of $4,500.00 already sent as ordered by the Federal Ministry for Finance. What is required from you is $75 for activation fee of your Money Gram Transfer code of all your transfers and this payment must be made to this office before the transfer information will be released for you to pick up your first payment.
Please you are advised to move to the Money Gram Transfer or western union and effect payment for the activation fee of your MTCN immediately and start receiving your funds without delay. For security reasons, you are advised not to expose this or the total amount of money you are receiving to people as you are only advised to move to any Money Gram Transfer or western union in your area and make the needed payment or you can also send it through Ria Transfer to the information provided below and you shall receive the transfer information to pick your first payment within 3 hours today.
We shall be provided with necessary documents covering your funds with your transfer information as soon as your activation fee is confirmed paid over here as we are not allowed to release vital documents without receiving your fee and commencing the transfer. The $75 activation fee covers all the transfer of your full funds and you shall start receiving your funds from this office as soon as the payment is confirmed from you today.
The Federal Ministry of Finance also mandated that on no account shall any form of money be deducted from your total funds as it has to be receive in exact amount as it is recorded to avoid mistakes so you will be receiving $4,500.00 usd daily until it completes the total amount of two Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($2.5 Million) as we have in our file here In addition, this is to let you know that $4,500.00 has been sent already as your first payment and the transfer information is kept on hold by this office and shall be released as soon as we hear from you.
Please i will like you to email me as soon as you send the $75 to avoid delays on this transaction as we have no excess time and as you know that your funds has lasted for a very long time than given, to avoid transferring your funds into government account due to failure to comply.Hope you understand my point? So your urgent response is highly needed You are to send the fee with INFORMATION BELLOW.
Receiver Name___ekene prince chikeCountry___Benin RepublicCity___CotonouTest Question___colorTest Answer___greenAmount___$75we need you to send us the reference number and the sender's name once you are done with the paymentREFERENCE NumberSender's Name
REGARDSDr. John RamonThe Managing Director Money Gram Transfer office Benin Republic.