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From: "JAMES COSTOS"<[email protected]>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 16:30:08 -0700
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE
Finance/Remittance Department Director
Int’l. Wire Transfer/Telex Department,
International Monetary Fund,(IMF).
Address: 700 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20431.
Business Hours: Monday–Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (ET).
Saturdays: 9:00 a.m to
4:00 p.m
Dear Friend.
I hope this email meets you in a good state of mind. Quite frankly,
after a serious thought, I have decided to personally reach you
directly because I do not have anything against you, but your so
called representatives working with you to realize the remittance of
your payment. However, have you ever wondered why you have been going
through this vicious circle over the past years with respect to having
your fund paid to you without any success. It is possible that you
were informed that your payment was brought to me for finalization,
neither were you informed that I am the person frustrating every move
to get your fund remitted to your local bank account in your country,
I can assure you that this is yet another deceit on the part of your
representative(s).
Well, like I said earlier to you, I have nothing against you or your
payment but I’m only trying to protect my interest also. I do not want
to mention names here, but am certain you are aware of whom I am
referring to having not received your funds.
I am the Finance/Remittance Department Director, International Wire
Transfer/Telex Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) your
funds conveyor. Sometime in the past a representative of yours
approached me through a friend of mine who works with one of the
Government Ministries here and requested that I assist him conclude a
money transfer deal having you as the beneficiary and we all agreed.
According to him, he wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge
amount of US Dollars by presenting your name as Beneficiary Whose fund
has not been paid.
Although we agreed that once I did that, he would give me 20% of the
total fund and he will equally give me your contact information before
I release the fund to your account. When he saw that I have programmed
your fund for onward transfer and your name has been approved among
the list of those to be paid as instead of him letting me have your
contact information to enable me regulate the transfer of funds and
confirm when it arrive in your account to enable me send to you my
private account details for my share of the 20% as was agreed
previously, what he does was to start avoiding me and which
thereafter, resorted to threats, because of that, I immediately
deleted your payment initializing code (PIC) from the list of those to
be paid, and this made it very IMPOSSIBLE for the transfer to be
completed to your account.
However, your local representative became very angry when he came to
discover I was able to truncate his illicit and deceitful plots and it
could not work out as he wrongly wished. What he did was to start
looking for other means of trying to bribe other junior officers along
with some other financial agencies to see how they could assist him
secure approval to enable them transfer the money to you but all their
efforts were to no avail. Is it not so funny my good friend that you
as a beneficiary are being asked to pay several statutory fees over
and over without your fund being transferred to you as well expected.
Well, your fund is right here with us and am 100% responsible for the
delay and obstructions of completing the transfer of funds to your
account because of the breach of the gentleman agreement between me
and your representative. If you doubt what I have just told you now,
then go ahead and pay any amount he may oblige you to pay and
thereafter, he will subject you to another form
(I). You must keep my information to you in this correspondence
highly secret because I don’t want to get involved with him, your
local representative again in my life and I will have 20% of the money
if successfully transfers to your local bank account because it is
only two of us in connection to logical remittance of the fund to you.
(ii). You MUST assure me that you will not betray me at last and my
own share will be safe until when I will redirect you to lodged my
part of the fund into an account that I will forward to you.
(iii) As you have seen, it will be useless and a mere waste of money
if you continue with your local representative and i can assure you
that with trust and confidence we will conclude the transaction with
utmost secrecy and confidentiality if you wish to adhere to my
directives and instructions. If these conditions are acceptable to
you, contact me as soon as possible to let us finalize all the
arrangements and conclude the remittance of the fund to you
immediately without any other delay attached.
I will give you more important details once I hear from you based on
if you promise to keep away from your local representative and handle
this matter with utmost confidentiality because I want to transfer the
money without the knowledge of any other official of the bank or even
without the knowledge of your local representative.
May the peace of our Jesus Christ be upon you.
Faithfully Yours in Him.
James Costos.
Finance/Remittance Department Director,
International Monetary Funds, (IMF).