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From: "Margaret Bierman" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: 5 Nov 2018 02:04:05 +0100
Subject: Your urgent response will be appreciated
Dear Sir/Madam,
RE: CHANGE OF ACCOUNT PARTICULARS ON YOUR PAYMENT FILE.
Following the directives received from the Office of the AU Chairman
(AFRICAN UNION), as a result of petitions and counter petitions by
foreign customers over non-payment of their due fund claims, this
office has been appointed to look into all overdue payments yet to be
released for verification and immediate payment.
Your name is among the 1st quater list in our official gazzette of
beneficiaries released for verification and immediate payment. Be
informed that there are differrent beneficiaries who submitted their
credentials for your payment by your local representatives. Thus, we
do not know into which bank account details you want us to transfer
your due fund into because we still need to confirm from you if you
are still there as we would not want to transfer your funds to the
wrong person.
Therefore, you are hereby requested kindly to verify the following
immediately: –
Did you broker your debt/payment to one Mr. Lee Chong of Indo-China
Group Ltd, Hong Kong below to claim and receive the payment on your
behalf?
Did you sign any 'Affidavit of Claim' in his favour, thereby making
him the current beneficiary with the following account details:
Account Name: Indo-China Group Ltd,
Account No: 114-102-5567-8 (US$)
Bank Name: Standard Chattered Bank, 138-141 1st Floor, Edinburgh
Tower, The Landmark, 15 Queens Road, Central Hong Kong
Swift Code: SCBL 11K111.
You are required as a matter of urgency to confirm the legitimacy of
the above claim and kindly give us reason why you decided to effect
the above change to this beneficiary. If you are not aware of this
claim, please confirm to us by replying to this mail immediately and
stating your authentic beneficiary's details to enable us commence
with the release order of your funds as we have the sum of
$21.5million USD (Twenty-one Million Five Hundred Thousand United
State Dollars) as your due fund. We have not issued payment to the
details above yet, we were advised to contact you first before
anything will be done. We have to make sure we dont transfer the
said fund to wrong customer account.
Due to the long delay this payment has suffered, be rest assured that
immediately these payment irregularities are cleared, you would
receive your fund delivery analysis for clearance of funds in your
door step.
Note that we are bound to recognize and accept Mr. Lee Chongs claim
if you fail to promptly response to this inquiry following the
'Affidavit of Claim' he submitted for the release of this fund in his
favour. Make sure you get back to me as soon as possible so that
necessary action will be taking immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Margaret Bierman
DIRECTOR FOR FOREIGN PAYMENT