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From: "Dr.(Mrs.) Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:35:11 +0100
Subject: AWAITING YOUR SWIFT RESPONSE


From Office of the Federal Ministry of Finance,
Dr.(Mrs.) Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed (Minister of Finance),
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Tel: +2340907753123

Atten: Beneficiary,

I am reaching you here today based on my position and with thorough
investigation being made into the foreign beneficiary’s approved
outstanding funds owed to them by the Federal Government onto their
approved contractual/inheritance funds. As your
contractual/inheritance outstanding payment files were submitted on my
desk a few days ago by the International Payment Commission of the
Presidency after our round table meeting was held. I discovered that
your name has been long preceded as one of the foreign beneficiaries
owed by the Federal Government as stated onto the approved payment
File Number: FGN1000005462376.

This contractual/ inheritance approved outstanding payment file
number: FGN1000005462376, I have seen it as a dumping and abandoned
payment file for some years ago. But I am vowing to you here today
that your funds will surely be released to you now with 100% assurance
and guarantee as Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria.

Meanwhile, on behalf of the Executive Board of Directors, Federal
Ministry of Finance of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am hereby
apologizing you for the delays and patience you have been having,
awaiting your payment.

Now the ball is in your court as I have been advised to allow you
choose the way the fund can be getting to you which will be easy for
you and stress-free which are as follows:

Here Are The Four (4) Different Options For You To Choose One out of
them, On How You Would Want The Fund To Release To You.

( OPTION “1”) Do you want the fund to be paid to you by ” BANK WIRE
TRANSFER PROCESS? If you choose that, then you will be needed to come
down here to sign your original hard copies and if you are not in a
better position to come down to Nigeria at the moment, then I can
dispatch the documents to your doorstep through a certified courier
company which will cost you US$495.

( OPTION “2”) Do you want the fund to be paid to you by “ATM CARD”
Then the fund must be loaded in an ATM card and must be delivered to
you at your doorstep through a reliable courier service company at
your doorstep contact mailing address you will provide and it will
cost you (Courier Delivery/ Green Tag Fee US$688) only.

( OPTION “3”) Do you want the fund to be paid to you through
“DIPLOMATIC PROCESS AS CASH PAYMENT? There letting the fund into a
Trunk Box as a consignment which will be declared as a Personal and
Family Effect to avoid distraction at the Transit and also in order
for the customs not to intervene into the consignment box which must
be surely deliver to you at your doorstep through diplomatic means in
Cash and it will cost you of the (Beneficiary’s Green Delivery Tag Fee
US$895) only.

Finally, ( OPTION “4”) Do you want the fund to be paid to you by BANK
DRAFT, then, a CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT will be raised in your name of the
said total sum. It will cost you (Courier Delivery/ Green Tag Fee
US$398) only on delivery at your doorstep through a reliable courier
service company.

These details and updates were instructed and given during the
round-table meeting held hours ago and you are requested to comply and
respond to this letter as urgently as possible with your choosing
option.

Strictly follow my instructions as l await your prompt response.

Best Regards,
Dr.(Mrs.) Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed