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From: "Ambassador Patricia Mahoney"<[email protected]>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 06:15:34 -0800
Subject: SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION $6.5M USD


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Attention Dear,
 
 
This is from the American Embassy Cotonou, Benin-Republic. We wish to
inform you that we received a compensation fund worth $6.5M USD only
from the Federal Government of Benin-Republic here as compensation to
you for what you went through in the name of their country.
 
Having been a scam victim here, the Government has mandated us to
forward the compensation fund to you and also apologize to you for
everything you have gone through in the hands of impostors all in the
name of Benin.
 
 
You are thereby instructed to e-mail back and state how you wish to
receive your funds immediately.
Kindly re-confirm the following
 
 
1. Name:
2. Address:
3. Phone:
4. Occupation:
5. Age:
6. Country:
7: How much you lost to the impostors:
 
I hope to read from you soon.
Yours in Service
Ambassador Patricia Mahoney
U.S Ambassador to Benin.

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