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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: henry paulson <henrypaulson44@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 04:52:28 +0000
Subject:
Treasury
United Nations IN CONJUNCTION WITH CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA Date: 2:09:2008 Approved and Witnessed by*Central Bank of Nigeria.*Senate Majority United States.*World bank audit committee.*United Nation Secretary general.
ATTENTION: Beneficiary
After very long meetings held by the above mentioned officials and the Minister of state for finance including the Board of Directors of the World Bank, the European Union, United States of America and the International Monetary Fund,
to see to the release of long term debt owed to many foreigners around
the globe especially the American/Asain citizens, who have been denied
of their Inheritance/Contract funds, The United Nation has been
authorized to handle the urgent release of all funds owed by any of the
financial institutions or Government that is a member of the United Nations, this is based on the loans and disbursement agreement signed between the US Government, British Government, World bank and Federal Government of Nigeria,
the release of your Inheritance/Contract fund will be supervised by
the United States Embassy/World Bank representatives in Nigeria to
ensure immediate payment in your favor and avoid delay.
From
the records of outstanding claims due for payment submitted by the
United Nations, your name is among next on the list of the outstanding
bills to be settled, I wish to inform you that your payment is being
processed and will be released to you as soon as you contact the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria with the contact information below.
Consequently,
they have been instructed to deduct any upfront charges from the
principle amount , also note that The reasons why your Inheritance
payment is been delayed for so long is that there was a counter claim
for the payment of your Inheritance funds by those crooks who have been
dribbling you around for past years and leading you into so many source
of trouble, telling you so many kind of story in order to delay your
fund so that they will divert it to there account. But now, we want you
to know that this will be the end of the sorrows to you. Also note the
officials who have been handling your fund past years have been sacked
due to their abuse in office(s).And their attempt to divert your fund
to Canada.
You
are advised to stop any further communication with your local
representative(s) any officials (s) department of the CBN and any other
Government paralstatals. This is to forestall new effort towards a
diversion of your payment. Note that this office supersedes every other
department and is thus responsible for the final payment. The
consequences of not heeding to this warning would be yours. Please
forward your Banking particulars to American Embassy in Nigeria immediately for immediate approval of your fund and payment.Contact person:Contact Person: Rev. Paul Johnson Office email address: agentpauljohnson1987@gmail.com
Open phone number: +234-80-22620442.Send him your direct phone number and contact address and your full bank account details as listed below.
1) Your full name, 2) Phone, fax and mobile number.
3) Company name, position and address ,
4) Profession, age and marital status.
5) An attached copy of your drivers license.
Kindly re-confirm the following information to the above contact person with your file Identification code number (SDUN/USGOV0013) for final verification of your details so that the funds will be transferred in your favor.
As soon as the above information is received, your payment will be made to you without any further delay.
Note that the officials in American Embassy have been authorized to handle this payment to keep a clean state of foreign debt settlement
because some Government officials and individuals have tried to
transfer this inheritance fund to you but failed due to dishonesty and
unnecessary demand for fees, You are hereby advised to stop any further
communications with any one else or any other financial institution and comply to this American Embassy in Nigeria to avoid any further delay.
The United Nations
and Government of Nigeria will not be interested in any complaint from
you if you fail to receive your fund via this programme or fail to
abide by this instruction.
We
sincerely apologize for the delays and advice you to STOP any further
communication with your associate in any of the African
countries/Britain for they contributed 100% hindrances to the release
of your Inheritance funds.
We hope you will benefit from our team of experts. We assure you the best of our services at all times.
Your urgent attention is expected
Thank
you.
Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Secretary of the Treasury
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