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From: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:12:50 -0700
Subject: Attention Beneficiary
Attention Beneficiary
This is to notify you that your payment of US$3,989,000.00 (Three
million nine hundred and eighty nine thousand United State Dollars)
has been deposited with Bank in United States of America, on your
behalf. The I.M.F Auditors will be present in the United States of
America all through this WEEK supervising the payment of
beneficiaries. This supervision exercise was part of the agreement
signed at the last G-8 meeting held in Washington between the WBG,
UN,IMF,US Government and The Ministry of Finance. Our legal department
shall handle most important and vital aspect of it all, which is the
legal angle of claim.
You will therefore be advise to contact the Bank for your payment
release as soon as I hear back from you and make sure you abide with
their instructions and do provide them with every detail they may ask
of you, to enable them finalize your Funds release either via online
banking OR other mode of payment release, particulars in order for you
to start transferring your Funds to any designated bank account of
your choice.
The bank contact details will be forwarded to you as soon as I hear from you.
Yours Faithfully
Mr James Walsh
I.M.F Telex Regional Director Africa