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From: "MR. DAVID R. MALPASS" <[email protected]>
Welcome to World Bank.
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 10:34:46 +0100
Subject: WELCOME TO WORLD BANK GROUP HEAD OFFICE WASHINGTON, DC.
Head Office Washington, DC.
Address: 1818 H St NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA
Attention:
I believed you have received this letter before. On behalf of the
entire staff of the World Bank, The Management of the World Bank
Corporate Office Headquarters here in Washington, DC, wishes to inform
you that after a brief meeting held by the Co-Chief Operating Officer
Of World Bank on the 22ND Day of July 2022, we deem it appropriate
to intimate you that your funds will be transferred into Mrs. Annette
Cang bank account of Treasury bank account of the united state of
America if you failed to send the required fee, According to the
record we got from our payment Office due to your inability to
complete the transaction and your failure to meet up with a payment
obligation. The actual transfer of your funds US$36.5 Million into
Mrs. Annette Cang account comes up next week. The United States
Insurance Policy fee is mandatory for any transfer of funds here in
the USA involving amounts above $1,000,000.00 (One million USD).The
amount to be transferred into your account is US$36.5 Million and is
far above $1 Million. This is why the $150 fee is required and the fee
cannot be deducted from source in accordance,
with section 3 subsection 2(a) of the Huge Funds Transfer Regulation
Act HFTRA of 2001 promulgated by law after the terrorist attack on our
dear country. Meanwhile, note that this is the only fees that you will
bear the cost and your approval funds sum of US$36.5 Million (Thirty
Six Million Five hundred thousand Dollars) will transfer to you
without any delays, and we are doing Auditing for the year 2022, so
we want your
funds US$36.5 Million to be transferred into your nominated bank
account the same day we receive this fees from you. We are doing
banking Auditing for the year 2022, so we advise you to treat as
matter of urgency and try as much as possible you can to raise and
come up with the fees of $150 dollars for (Fund Legality Certificate
and Bulk Money Transfer Permit Certificate) and send it to Bank of
America Accountant Officer as the funds origin/Cashier Office
within 72 hours you receive this email so that we can transfer your
Funds into your bank account before closing for the day, We are doing
banking Auditing for the year 2022 and all unclaimed fund will be
cancel and send back to Mrs. Annette Cang account as true beneficiary
of this funds.
Note that if you still wish to receive your funds do get back to us
immediately so that we will remove your funds transfer from the list
of those transactions to be seized by the United States Government.
Also be informed that we need only a Fund Legality Certificate and
Bulk Money Transfer Permit Certificate to complete the wire transfer.
The fee to obtain the Fund Legality Certificate and Bulk Money
Transfer Permit Certificate was reduced from $350 to $150 and no other
fee is involved. You are required to send the fee of $150 to the World
Bank Accountant Officer/Cashier Office where your transaction
originated as stated below: send the payment via ITUNES Gift card,
,STEAM GIFT CARD OR SEPHORA GIFT CARD OR RAZER GOLD GIFT CARD, If we receive
the CARDS today, we will transfer your funds
US$36,500,000.00 (Thirty Six Million Five hundred thousand Dollars)
before we close office and the funds will reflect 3 hours after the
transfer. We will send you all the transfer documents to enable you
start making cash withdrawals from your account same day the funds are
transferred. We have waited for so long and we cannot continue to wait.
Meanwhile, a woman came to this bank a few days ago with a letter
claiming to be your true representative and she agreed to pay the
charges.
Failing to reply this email and pay the required fee of $150 urgently
we shall proceed to issue all payments details to the said Mrs.Annette
Cang if we do not hear from you within the next 72 hours from today.
We are sorry for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of
your fund must have caused you.
I need your urgent reply and congratulations.
NB: THIS TRANSACTION IS BEING MONITORED BY THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO GUARDS US FOR INTERNET IMPOSTORS.
Best Regards
Mr David R. Malpass,
The President of World Bank.Washington, DC.