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From: Michael Beasley <[email protected]>
Reply: Michael Beasley <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 06:56:22 +0900 (JST)
Subject: IRREVOCABLE PAYMENT ORDER VIA ATM CARD

FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE (FIC)
REPUBLIC OF BENIN AFRICA
Office address:BP 1280, Rue du Gouverneur Bayol, 01 Cotonou Benin Rep.

Dear Email Owner/Fund Beneficiary,

IRREVOCABLE PAYMENT ORDER VIA ATM CARD

This message is directed to you based on the letter Office of Dr. Mohamed Ahmed, the Honorable (Minister of Finance) Republic of Benin  received from the International Monetary Funds Agency (I.M.F) and the G8 Summit meeting headed last regarding the settlement of all Winning/ Inheritance funds to the Beneficiaries. Now, we have actually been authorized by Dr. Mohamed Ahmed, the Honorable (Minister of Finance) Republic of Benin and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) secretary general to contact you for your overdue payment. This is the third time your Payment file has come to my table, and every time an Executive Order comes from the government ordering that your fund should be recalled back to the World Bank Escrow account, without any genuine reason. Meanwhile, our Payment Settlement System (PSS) has received another permanent Authority/Irrevocable Release/Unconditional payments guarantee by the Honorable Minister of Finance, Dr. Mohamed Ahmed to
pay you off your Winning/ Inheritance Funds via ATM Visa Card.

Also note that from the record in my file your outstanding Winning/Inheritance payment is (Three Million Five Hundred Thousand United state Dollars) only. Now your new Payment Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No: 339331, Pin Code No: 7644 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No: 103, ATM Visa Card Released Code 

No: 0763; Immediate Telex confirmation No: -1114433, Secret Code No: XXTN013, Having received these vital payment numbers, therefore You are qualified now to received and confirm Your payment with the Royal Bank Of Scotland LONDON UNITED KINGDOM via ATM Visa Card. To issue the ATM Visa Card, you are therefore advised to contact the  RBS BANK in LONDON UNITED KINGDOM, this is so because the United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Honorable Minister of Finance has chosen them to payout your fund, because RBS Bank ATM Visa Card is a global payments technology that enables consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments to use digital currency instead of cash and checks, Kindly contact  the RBS Bank ATM Visa Card Issuance Department now with the below contact details: 

Contact Person: 
DR.JAMES DOYLE. Director ATM VISA CARD Issuance Department
(RBS Bank  London UK) 

Please provide us with the information as stated below:
1. Your Full Name:
2. Address Where You Want the Courier Company to Send Your ATM Card
To or (P.O Box)
3. Your Age:
4. Occupation:
5. Email address:
6. Cell/Mobile Number:

Be Warned & Note: We expect your urgent response to this email as to enable us monitor this payment effectively thereby making contact with DR. JAMES DOYLE as directed to avoid further delay and/or as The United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not
instruct any other Bank or agent in this payment except (DR.JAMES DOYLE), whom we can only give attention to, and from now, we advice you to stop
all the communications you are having with any other Agent or bank officials in Europe, Asia and Africa regarding to your payment.

Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions.

Yours faithfully,
MICHAEL BEASLEY
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER.
(FIC)BENIN REPUBLIC.