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From: "FBI contact" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:06:53 -0700
Subject: Payment Approved
Attention beneficiary,
We the Investigation Bureau Washington, DC (FBI) in conjunction with other relevant Investigation agencies, we wish to inform you that we recently received several reports through our Global intelligence monitoring network that you have a transaction which wasn't accomplished after series of process and required procedures.
Consequently we finally scheduled the dispatch of your funds to the Federal Reserve Bank for easy transfer of these funds to your account without any hitches, this decision was made due to the rate of corruption and scam reports perpetrated by Individuals and Offices, therefore your funds was ordered to be moved or transferred to safe custody of Federal Reserve Bank.
The transfer of the fund to Federal Reserve Bank was successfully executed early today and we just received a confirmation from the correspondent bank (Federal Reserve Bank) that the fund valued the sum of $ 10,500,000.00 (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) was received by their Management, therefore we are officially contacting you in this regard letting you know that your funds are presently at safety custody of Federal Reserve Bank.
Therefore you are advised to contact them immediately with the information outlined below:
Federal Reserve Bank
Contact person: Mr. Jimmy Clapps
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 202 601 0005
Furthermore, you are expected to Identify your self with this code of conduct (FRB90669931), this code was given by the Board Management of the office this morning for verification or easy identification so you must include it in your email as identification code. You will be recognized as soon as you send this code, your full name and address should also be sent to the office email address stated above, you can also contact their representative on his direct telephone number as stated above.
Finally, you are advised to completely terminate all your conversation or correspondent with any other individual, authority or office who claims to be in custody of your funds because your funds was official transferred to Federal Reserve Bank this morning under federal instructions.
Therefore adhere to their instruction to enable them serve your fervently.
Yours sincerely
Investigation Bureau Washington, DC,
International Monetary Fund.