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From: Federal Reserve Bank New York <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:02:54 +0100
Subject: Thank you for banking with us.
Head Office
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045
Tel: + 1 (208) 277 0492
Dear: Esteemed Customer
It has come to our notice that you have been defrauded of your hard earned
money by fraudsters from Africa and the rest of the world. During the last
Anti-Fraud meeting held in Washington DC, we were alarmed along with the
rest of the world at The loss of funds from various foreigners to scam
artists operating all over the world today. After the meeting, we have
decided to redeem the good image of some African countries, so an immediate
payment of $ 10,500,000.00USD (Ten Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United), will be released to you as the authorized and
corresponding paying bank under the assistance of the World Bank.
As some of the beneficiaries have been paid most of them are from United
States. Your information was among those mentioned by some syndicate
members arrested in Benin Republic, Lagos Nigeria, Accra Ghana and London
as one of those who have lost a lot of money to their operations.
You are hereby advised and warned not to communicate or duplicate this
message to anybody for any reason whatsoever as the US secret service and
the FBI are working day and night to track these criminals down. This has
to be kept confidential until these criminals are all apprehended .
We hereby bring to your notice that the sum of $10.5 Million will be
credited into your new registered online account and the Online login
access information will be given to you, once you provide us with an FBI
FUND IDENTIFICATION RECORD AND DIST CERTIFICATE of the funds in order to
receive your payment and have clean bill of record with the FBI commission
without having any problem, make a swift arrangement to Secure fbi fund
identification record and diplomatic seal of transfer certificate,
alongside drug clearance certificate quoting the reference file no of FBI,
FBI.ESX-CODE12/19 to the authorities concerned to avoid RED flagging your
online account because of the large volume of funds involved. This will
enable you log into the online account and make your online transfer to any
account of your choice.
You are therefore advised to comply with this instruction immediately and
get back to me Asap.
Thank you for banking with us.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Donald V. Hammond
Chief Operating Officer