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From: Federal Ministry Of Finance <[email protected]>Federal Ministry Of Finance
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:00:33 -0700
Subject: CONFIRM IF THIS IS TRUE ?
Personal Assistant: Mr. Ahmed Bello.
5th Floor, Annex 3, New Federal Secretariat Complex,
Garik- Abuja, Nigeria
Attention: Beneficiary,
My name is Mr. Ahmed Bello, I am the Personal Assistant to Minister of
Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, I am directed to contact you by the
Minister to urgently confirm from you if actually you know one Dr.
James Bake and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. The Former Governor of Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN). and his Colleagues who claim to be your
business associate/partner in Nigeria.
The said people are claiming that you are dead and therefore will like
to change all your Information with us as actual beneficiary. Below is
the new banking information where they wish to have your funds
transferred to:
Bank Name: First United Bank
Bank Address 700 W Exchange Ave Crete li60417
Account Number: 00040221643
Account Name: Dr. James Bake.
ABA/Routing NO: 071923750
This development is coming now that the Ministry wants to offset all
outstanding payments to all our legal foreign beneficiaries around the
world in which your payment file was affected. As you may know, this
Ministry have approved this amount of $7Million Dollars Only in your
favor as a compensation.
We need to confirm from you if it’s really true that you are dead and
If we do not hear from you, this automatically means that you are dead
as informed by Dr. James Bake As soon as you receive this
message,kindly indicate if you are alive to enable us know true
position of things with you so that we will not make any mistake in
remitting your outstanding payment to a wrong person. Your swift
response to this mail will help a lot, do email me with your full data
information such as:
Full name:.
Full address:.
Telephone:..
Cell/mobile:…
Country of Origin:.
Profession:.
Age:.
Sex:..
Any of your photo identification.
Be reminded that in confirming and providing us with this above out
listed data information will definitely confirm to me whether you are
alive or not and to ensure that we are dealing with the right person.
Waiting for your response.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Ahmed Bello
Personal Assistant to
Ministry Of Finance.
Federal Republic of Nigeria