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From: "Dr.Goidwin Emefiele" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 06:42:47 -0700
Subject: FROM DR GODWIN EMEFIELE, ARE YOU ALIVE OR DEAD?I N...
Attention: Beneficiary
We wish to inform you that a power of attorney was forwarded to our
office this morning, by two Ppeople regarding your unclaimed fund of
$10.5 Million Dollar. One of them is an American citizen named Mrs.Doe
Judy Jane and the other is Mr. Styn Willy Lodewijk a Belgiem citizen.
The document claims these gentle man and Woman to be your authorize
representatives, and the power of attorney states that you are already
deceased. It further states that your death was due to lung cancer
from Corona Virus Covid-19 2020.With your date of death being March
15th, 2020.
They have now submitted a new account to replace the receiving account
that was in the original claim of funds. These funds have remained
unclaimed for quite some time and the need for resolution is pressing.
In the event that you are in fact still alive, we ask that you confirm
your existence by responding to this email. You are to view this as a
matter requiring immediately attention and response. We have 48 hr
monitoring of all activities within and Central Bank.
We have contacted the bank in the Sweden asking them to wait for
further directives from and Central Bank, prior to authorizing any
withdrawals in any form. Our request is based entirely on our attempt
to verify that you are in fact deceased, before money is wrongly
disbursed.
Finally, we forewarn you that if we do not hear back from you shortly,
we will have to assume that you are in fact deceased and Central Bank
will proceed with release funds to the above newly submitted account.
Kindly confirm the above information to avoid making payment to a
Wrong person with your full names: ? Address? Phone numbers: ?
Sincerely,
Dr. Godwin Emefiele
The Email contained an excessively large subject. For aesthethic reasons we have truncated the message in the title and reproduce the full subject below.
FROM DR GODWIN EMEFIELE, ARE YOU ALIVE OR DEAD?I NEED AN URGENT RESPONSE FROM YOU IF YOU ARE ALIVE.