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From: International Monetary Fund <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 05:48:49 +0000
Subject: YOUR COMPENSATION FUNDS PAYMENT ORDER
This is to inform you that, we have been working towards the
eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with the help of
the United States Government, Benin Republic Government, United
Kingdom Government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) including with the help of the
Currency Transactions Reports (CTR) and Suspicious Transactions
Reports (STR) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Financial Action Task
Force (FATF). We have been able to track down so many of this scam
artist in various parts of African countries which includes (United
Kingdom, India, Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana, Cameroon and
Senegal) and they are all in Government custody now, they will appear
at International Court of Justice (ICJ) Hague (Netherlands) soon for
Criminal/Fraud Justice. During the course of our investigation, we
have been able to recover so much money from these scam artists. The
United Nation Anti-Crime Commission and the United State Government
have ordered the money recovered from the Scammers to be shared among
100 Lucky people around the World for compensation. This Email/Letter
is been directed to you because your email address was found in one of
the scammer Artists file and computer hard-disk while the
investigation, maybe you have been scammed. You are therefore being
compensated with the sum of USD25,500,000.00 (Tewtry-Five Million Five
Hundrad Thousand Dollars Only). We have also arrested some of those
who claim that they are Barristers, Bank Officials, Lottery and
Government Agents who has money for transfer or want you to be the
next of kin of such funds which does not exist. Since your email
address appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a
compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be paid to you
through Online transfer /ATM VISA CARD. An ATM Visa Card will be
issued in your name and your USD25,500,000.00 (Tewtry-Five Million
Five Hundrad Thousand Dollars Only) will be loaded into it, and
deliver it to your postal address with the Pin Number, as to enable
you withdrawal your funds from any ATM Machine anywhere in the world.
To issue the ATM Visa Card, you are therefore advised to contact the
(CIBC FIRST CARIBBEAN BANK CAYMAN ISLAND)After the account opening
over there in Cayman Island in the new Bank (CIBC FIRST CARIBBEAN
BANK, CAYMAN ISLAND) , this is so because Visa Inc. is a global
payments technology company that enables consumers, businesses,
financial institutions and governments to use digital currency instead
of cash and checks, and the Government choose them to payout all the
compensation funds to the 100 Lucky beneficiaries. Contact him now he
will help you lodge into your new opened account with (CIBC FIRST
CARIBBEAN BANK, CAYMAN ISLAND) into your account with the same bank,
this arrangements is for safekeeping of your funds because you can not
bring all your funds at once to your country because of the new rules
and regulations on moving huge sum of funds from one place or the
other, with this arrangements, you will be officially protected and
there will be no more records of your funds to your governments, you
will only make transfers from your offshore account once you need
money to settle matters like payments of your mortgage, payments of
your cash loan, children school fees, official business payments and
lots of others payments from your side, this is all supported with the
official bank to bank transfer system 1. Full name 2. Phone and fax
number 3. Address were you want them to send the ATM card to (P.O box
not acceptable) 4. Your age and current occupation 5. Attach copy of
your identification Please Be Warned, as The United Nations Anti-Crime
Commission and the United State Government does not instruct any other
Bank or agent in this payment except (Mr. John Rusher of IBC FIRST
CARIBBEAN BANK, CAYMAN ISLAND), whom we can only give attention to,
and from now, we advice you to stop all the communications you are
having with any other Agent or bank officials in Europe, Asia and
Africa regarding to your payment. Thanks for your understanding as you
follow instructions. YOURS SINCERELY, Andrew Tweedie Finance
Department Director International Monetary Fund 700 19th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20431