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From: "FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE"<[email protected]>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 03:53:10 +0800
Subject: PAYMENT,,
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE
NATIONAL HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY COMPLEX
SENATE HOUSE ?UPPER CHAMBERS WUSE DISTRICT, ABUJA NIGERIA
P.M.B. 0127, AGBOKOU,
Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB
Dear Beneficiary the fact is that you can? seem to trust any one
again towards your approved beneficiary fund payment here just
because
of what you have been in cantered with other peoples, but listen our
office cannot liar or deceive you, the US$350 you were ask to pay is
needed in your name to obtain your Fund payment Release Transfer
Clearance Certificate at the Bureau office here, the fee of US$350
is
clearly written to all the beneficiaries, our office did not invent
the fee to defraud you or any body, it is an official Clearance
Certificate fee of your fund Release , and the good part of this, is
that after this fee you will receive your approved fund without any
body to disturbed you again over any kind of fee, you are hereby
implore to divulge to us on how you want your Funds enacted to you
from the below listed means of funds transfers.
1. ATM CARD: The funds will be loaded in an Automated Teller Machine
'ATM Card' and it will sent to you via DHL Courier Service for you to
activate it in any ATM Machine close to you and make sure you change
the Personal Identification Number 'PIN Number' to your preferred PIN
Number and start withdrawing your fund from any ATM machine.
2. CERTIFY CHEQUE: You will be sent a Certify Cheque via DHL Courier
Service to be taken to your bank or any bank close to you with
approved documentations that will come along with the Cheque,
clearing
the funds to be paid to you with any form of Identification you
present to them.
3. TRANSFER TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT: Your funds will be transferred
instrumentally into your bank account through Key Telegraphic
Transfer
and it will require you to present to your bank the funds transfer
documents that will we be sent to you before you will be allowed to
start withdrawal the funds from your Bank.
This is final, once our office receive the US$350 from you to
obtain
your Fund payment Release Transfer Clearance Certificate at the
Bureau
office here, the Certificate will present to the paying bank then the
paying Bank will release your fund to you without any delay. I
don?
want you to lose your fund this time, because you may never get such
good opportunity again,
The Federal Government of Nigeria is keen and very determined to pay
all the beneficiaries overdue debts, this is not a fluke, I don't
want
you to lose your fund out of ignorance, I will send you all your fund
payment documents as soon as you send the US$350 fee needed in your
name to obtain your Fund payment Transfer Clearance Certificate at
the
Bureau office here, you have to trust me and our office here, you
will
receive your approved fund this time around, find a way to send the
US$350 you will not lose it, instead it will bring your financial
breakthrough, find the US$350 and send it to our office bursary.
Finally my advice is for you not to abandon this because of the
requirement of (US$350 the receiver is our office bursary is
available
to received the US$350 through Western Union.
As soon as you get back to me I will send you information on how to
make the payment through the Western Union Money transfer/Money Gram.
Thanks,
MARY WILLIAMS