Saturday, October 12, 2013

RE: APPROVAL OF YOUR PAYMENT

ECOBANK NIGERIA PLC
Foreign Remittance Dept.
Plot 21, Ahmadu Bello Way
Victoria Island, Lagos,
Nigeria, West Africa
Tel: +234-1-891-5774
Fax: +234-1-227-0374

TELEX: 5170
SWIFT CODE (BIC): ECOCNGLA
ISIN CODE: NGECOBANK000
BATCH NO.: FGN/093002-13
REF: FGN/LOS/EBP-PT/0094/13

Attention: Beneficiary

RE: APPROVAL OF YOUR PAYMENT

It might interest you to know that while you are yet to receive your payment, we at the Foreign Remittance Department, Ecobank have registered your payment as resolved and claimed by you. This was fulfilled on the account of the information receive from the Central Bank of Nigeria, but contrary to our disposition, we only yesterday received a counter information from the Ministry of Finance positioning that you have not been paid off. Paragraph two of the rejoinder from the Finance Ministry indicated that you have been placed on the chess-board of corrupt officials whose trade in stock is for disseminate sensitive payment information to their cronies and allies to distort and disenfranchise your genuine claim for payment by giving the toga of improper and phony claim via their nefarious activity. On the account of this revelation from the ministry of finance, the Foreign Remittance Department, Ecobank Nigeria Plc has invoked the powers conferred on us as the leading independent pan-African bank by articles 39 Section 11A and 23C Cap 69, laws of the Economic Community of West African States and Federal Republic of Nigeria, to recall this payment, investigate reasons in favor or against the implementation of payment. This we have assiduously concluded and we discovered that for a longtime now you have been a scam victim. We advice that, you dishonor any form of correspondence in respect of your payment to enable us resolve this impasse. It is obvious that your payment file has been retrieved. Since it is an obligation to rectify, resolve and settle such debts through this office to save the battered image of our dear country and African continent, we have resolved to deal directly with you only for a debt-buy-back payment settlement. In respect of this, we demand that you send to this office any viable information at your disposal that will confirm you as the true beneficiary in less than five working days; we sincerely regret this uncharitable display of Man’s inhumanity to his fellow mankind. However, you are required to re-confirm to us the below details for Payment Database Update for proper accreditation and to avoid improper payment to wrong beneficiary.

Your Full Name: …..
Your Current Contact Address: …..
Your Mobile number: ……, Office No.: ……., Fax No.: ……
Your Occupation: ……..
Your Means of Identification: ….

Yours in service,

Mr. Jibril Aku
Managing Director
Foreign Operations Department

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GOOD NEWS

Attention:

The U.S.A Government World Bank I.M.F And United Nations Organization, this is to inform you of your long overdue Payment outstanding in our records. We saw your name in the Central Computer among list of unpaid inheritance claims individuals and have to update your information s through this email contact for immediate confirmation. Your name appeared among the beneficiaries who will receive a part-payment of the sum of $5.Million USD to you, Credited to Online Bank ATM Card account that was set up for you in World Bank and it has been approved already months ago. However we received an email from one (MR. BRIGHT HOFFMAN) who told us That he is your next of kin and that you died in a car accident last four months back. He has also submitted his contact information s to the office department for the delivery of your ATM Card to him as your inheritor. We are now verifying by contacting your email address as we have in our Bank records before we can make the delivery to him and for us to conclude confirmation if you are dead or not. Please, confirm response immediately to us before our action release your ATM Card to him against your name listed out. Upon this, I request you send your full personal information as soon as possible to our ATM Card Payment Center to enable them finalize with the delivery of you ATM Card to you.

Your Full Names:_____________
Contact Address:_____________
Mobile Phone:_____________
Home Phone:_____________
Fax:_____________
Occupation:_____________
Marital Status:_____________
Age:_____________

In order to resolve this problem, Please contact ( Our ATM Card Payment Center) immediately for the delivery of your ATM Card via their below contact. Contact Person: Mr. Frank Don ( Payment Center Managing Director) E-mail : (Ms.victoria_bond@yahoo.co.uk) This Department is in charge of the delivery of your ATM Card. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This E-Mail is intended only for the use of the Individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Once again, I apologize to you on behalf of International Monetary Fund Agency towards this contact and proper confirmation required urgently from you.

Dr Dele Williams

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CONTACT MR. MARK WILBERG FOR YOUR CHEQUE WORTH 500,000.00 USD.

Attention:

United Nation has decided to compensate you with a sum of $500,000.00 USD
CONTACT: Mr. MARK WILBERG
ADDRESS: 15 Mill mark Groove SE14 6RL, Hawwai USA.
EMAIL: markwilberg883@yahoo.com.hk
TEL: +234 810 815 5395

Best Regards,
Mr. Ban Ki-moon
United Nations Secretary-General.

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ATTENTION: RECIPIENT

Subject: ATTN: RECIPIENT

Federal Bureau of Investigation
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
REF:US/28028/8A28/11

ATTN: RECIPIENT

This is to officially inform you that we have completed our investigation with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that your legally acquired funds of $800,000.00 USD. has finally been released by the paying agency outside the United States of America. During our investigation we discovered that your money and transfer of this funds had been placed on hold by corrupt officials of these agencies. Normally, it will take up to 10 business days for an International Check to be cashed by your local banks. We have successfully notified this company on your behalf that your funds is to be withdrawn from a registered bank within the United States of America in order to enable you cash the check instantly without any further delay,henceforth the stated amount of $800,000.00 USD. has been deposited with Bank Of America. We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to receive your money because we have verified the entire transaction to be Safe and 100% risk free, due to the fact that the funds have been deposited with the Bank Of America, you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in London (UK) according to our discoveries, you are required to pay for the following - Deposit Fee's (Fee's paid by the company for the deposit into an American Bank which is - Bank of America) Cashier's Check Conversion Fee (Fee for converting the Wire Transfer payment into a Certified Cashier's Check) The total amount is $520.00 (Five Hundred and twenty USD)We attempted in deducting the required fee of $520 from the funds but we realized that the money had already been deposited at Bank Of America and cannot be accessed by anyone except the legal owner (you); therefore you will be required to pay for this services if you wish to have your Certified Cashier's Check delivered to you. In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact the agent in-charge (Agent Adekunle Bamgbose) via e-mail or Telephone.

Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:
CONTACT AGENT NAME: Adekunle Bamgbose
E-MAIL ADDRESS: adekunlebamgbose@gmail.com
Tel:+447024097410

You will be required to e-mail him with the following

information:
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:

You will also be required to request the transfer details on how to send the required $520.00 for immediate delivery of your Certified Cashier's Check valued at $800,000.00 USD drawn from Bank of America,kindly include the following Fund Reference Identification : EA2948-910. This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $520.00 ONLY to AGENT DAVID JAMES via the confidential information that he will provide to you, if you do not receive your Certified Cashier's Check valued at $800,000.00 we shall be held responsible for the loss and this shall invite a penalty of $3,000 which will be made PAYABLE ONLY to you (The Beneficiary).
Please find below an authorized signature which has been signed by the FBI Public Affairs Director - Robert Mueller

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REFUND Application

Date:09/10/2013
REF:NNPC/CBN/LLY/NCS/2013/NG

Attn :

I am Dr. Abdullahi Dikkoinde, based on the highly esteemed recommendation made about your company reputation by the international trade commission affiliate to the Nigeria Chambers of Commerce, who guaranteed your reliability and trust worthiness in business dealing, I therefore decided to propose to you all this lucrative deal, which requires an urgent assistance for mutual beneficial relationship among ourselves. I am the Area Controller of Customs with the Nigerian Board of Customs and Excise in charge of Zone "B" Western Headquarter, Tin Can Island,. However, after due consideration of your Company's reputation, as a matter of fact, I have no reason to doubt your transparent honesty and creditability hence I make this business proposal to you. Please treat with utmost confidentiality. My proposal is this, my department made a wonderful revenue yield in the quarters of 2009/2012 that exceed our budget target of US$480,000,000.00 (Four Hundred and Eight Million United state's Dollars) the actual amount realized is US$850,500,000.00 (Eight Hundred and Fifty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). Having an excess of US$370,000,000.00 (Three Hundred and seventy Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). This success was possible due to the aggressive revenue strategies we employed in dealing with smugglers, exporters and importers alike. At the end of this quarter, as officer in charge of revenue, we declared only US$600,000,000.00 (Six Hundred Million United States Dollars) have since been paid into the government account as accumulated revenue for this quarter leaving behind US$250,000,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Million United States Dollars) which we have statutory set aside for refund to these importers and exporters who were charged excess duties. Now, what I want you to do is to send an application for claim, for a refund of excess import duty of US$85,500,000.00 (Eighty Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) and also enclose detail of your bank account where this fund will be remitted. It will be in disguise that your company was charged excess import duty by my office so to this effect my office will respond swiftly to your request and complete the refund process within fourteen days (2weeks) .The funds have been deposited already in a security volt company in Europe where you shall visit after good understand as the beneficiary with all claim documents in your favor.

The ratio of disbursement is as follows:

The account owner (you) will have 30% of the total amount remitted, 10% will be set as for the expenses incurred during the transaction, while 60% will be for me and my colleagues. Please, let me know your interest immediately through my private tel/fax number to enable me furnish you with more information and also a sample of the Refund Application Form which you will retype with your company letter head paper for the refund of excess import duty to you as soon as I hear from you. NOTE: This transaction is smooth and secured, as all arrangement have been well organized. Finally, do always remember the confidentiality and urgency, which this transaction requires, while I expect your urgent response to this request.

Your Full Name: __________________________________
Your Complete Address (Physical Address with Zip Code not
P.O.BOX) : _______________________________________
Name of City of Residence:________________________
Country:__________________________________________
Direct Telephone Number:__________________________
Mobile Number:____________________________________
Fax Number:_______________________________________

Best regards,
Dr. Abdullahi Dikkoinde
234-8171987962
Email.:abdullahidikkoinde@abv.bg

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