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From: Christopher A Wray <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 04:24:04 +0100
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION BENEFICIARY !!
From the desk of: Christopher A Wray
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FBI
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION .
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Direct call to reach my secretary now # 6107-085-812
URGENT ATTENTION BENEFICIARY !!
How are you and your entire family, I hope you are all in a good
present state of mind and health. In regard to the previous mail sent
to you concerning your contract payment worth $8.3Million United State
Dollars which was recently endorsed for disbursement by the central
bank of Nigeria, we were informed that from the records of the
outstanding contractors whom their fund is due for payment with the
Federal Government of Nigeria, your name and company were discovered
to be next on the list of the outstanding contractors who have not yet
received their payment accordingly.
It might interest you to know that we have already contacted the
person in charge of your transfer (Dr Godwin Emefiele and he assured
us that as soon as they hear from you they start taking the next
procedural step regarding the release of your funds to you. We advise
that you contact the CBN. Payment department immediately and ask that
they attend to your payment file BEFORE THE DEADLINE DATE. We have
taken out time in screening this project as stipulated in our protocol
of operation and have finally confirmed that your contract payment is
100% genuine and from all facts and of which you have the lawful
right to claim your fund without any further delay. Having said all
this, we will further advise that you go ahead in dealing with the
Central Bank office accordingly as we will be monitoring all their
services with you as well as your Correspondence at all levels.
Note that the central bank of Nigeria equally have their own protocol
as stipulated in their banking operation, so we advise that you follow
up their procedure as may be required from you as that will further
hasten up the whole process regard to the release of your inheritance
fund/overdue, compensation payment to you as instructed by the federal
government of Nigeria. Also want to use this opportunity to WARN you
against some hoodlums that are impersonating my office and other
government agencies for the purpose of extorting money from innocent
CITIZENS like you. Be very vigilant and always forward to my office
any messages sent to you before replying to them so that we can
confirm if it’s genuine or not..We are poised to take this precaution
so as to make sure you don’t fall victim to those miscreants who are
claiming to be who they are not. Like I told you before, we recently
had a meeting with the executive governor, Central Bank office prior
to your case and they presented to us the real official contact
information of the genuine Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of which we
have enclosed below for your observation and reference.
EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR: Dr Godwin
Emefiele
OFFICE ADDRESS: Central Bank of
Nigeria ,
Central Business
District,
Cadastral Zone,
Abuja , Federal Capital
Territory ,
Nigeria .
office Phone:
+2347042156976
office Email:
[email protected]
NOTE: In your best interest, any message that doesn’t come from the
above official email address and phone numbers should not be replied
to and should be disregarded accordingly for security reasons. The
reason is because we received a fax today from the Central Bank
office, stating that they have recently been informed through their
underground monitoring unit that some hoodlums are contacting you
claiming to be from the Central Bank of Nigeria, just to collect money
from you for no reason. We have started our investigation on how to
get these hoodlums and as well bring them to book and note that any
information you send to us, will go a long way in helping us track
these fraudsters down. To this effect, we will like you to forward to
us any of their contact information so as to enable us forward copy to
all the relevant security agencies. Reconfirm your information details
to the EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR: Dr Godwin Emefiele via the above stated
contact information.
Once again, we will advise that you contact the Central Bank office
only with the above information as soon as you can because they have
already started sorting our contract payments to serious clients and
your case should not be exempted. This is all I can tell you for now
until you have contacted them as directed. Like we also stated in the
previous email which we sent to you, we will continue monitoring all
the services of this project during and after your fund must have been
routed to you as designated so you need nothing to worry about prior
to that. All we just need from you, is your utmost cooperation as it
is our duty to protect your interest at all times.
Have a blessed day !
Best Regards,
Christopher Wray
You can call my secretary in case of any emergency ( 6107-085-812 )
Those calling from overseas +16107-085-812
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001 , USA