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From: "HSBC Bank"<[email protected]>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 18:32:15 +1100
Subject: DID YOU AUTHORIZE CHANGE OF ACCOUNT TO YOUR PAYMENT FILE?64
Attention Beneficiary.
DID YOU AUTHORIZE CHANGE OF
ACCOUNT TO YOUR PAYMENT FILE?
You are been officially contacted by HSBC Bank, Please confirm this
information. Did you ask Mr. Edmond Beneker from USA to claim your
fund, he told us you had an accident and you are lying half dead in
the hospital and gave him our contact to reach us and claim the fund
on your behalf? This man was directed to us by Mr. John Adams the
account officer that is supposed to transfer your fund to your
account. Please as matter of urgency get back to us immediately before
things will get wrong. Below are the account details of Mr. Edmond
Beneker where he authorized us to transfer your fund into;
Name on account: Edmond Beneker
Bank: Wells Fargo
Address:8233 Rochester Hwy. SC4600 Salem, SC 29676 USA
Acct. #: 1010246561978
Routing#:053207766
Swift Code: WFBUS0947
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Please, do reconfirm to this office, as a matter of urgency
immediately without further delay so as to enable us release your
fund through online transfer/E-banking without exposing your banking
details to anybody. You are requested to fill and send the below
information's: for verification purposes so that your fund will be
remitted to your nominated bank account Or to any of your approved
representative, the verification information's needed is as follows.
1. Your name:
2. Your full address:
3. Your telephone/ fax:
4. Age:
5. Sex:
6. Your occupation.
As the MD of this Noble Bank, I was supposed to Release this Funds to
him but I refused to do so because I wanted to hear from you first,
due to the Nature of my job, I will not want to make any mistake in
releasing this fund to anyone except you whom is the recognized
beneficiary to this Fund.
Kindly clarify us on this issue before we make this Payment to this
foreigner/representative whom came on your behalf, I'm waiting for
your reply as soon as possible,
Thanks and God bless you.
We look forward to give you a better service in near future.
Yours Faithfully
Mr. James Duke
MD HSBC Bank.
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