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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Fw: ABOUT YOUR FUNDS IN CBN

Yes madam , I surprise plenty plenty


------Original Message------
From: Dr. Mrs. Veronica Amadi [JP]
ReplyTo: drveronica01@mail.kz
Subject: ABOUT YOUR FUNDS IN CBN
Sent: Aug 2, 2012 2:01 PM

Attn:


I know that you might be surprise on this mail, but I am telling you the truth. I know that it is against my official duty

to release confidential issue like this to an outsider.There is nothing I can do to help you beside this; I am taking this

bold step because of my belief as a Christian.


What I want to tell you is about your fund with the Federal Government of Nigeria, there are a lot forces working against

you right from the last CBN Governor Prof Charlse Soludo and the current Governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi with other

Top officials of all the Commercial Banks here in Nigeria, they have been frustrating people by demanding upfront payment

from them constantly, If I tell you that they are using all these money you sent to them to work against you, you might not

believe it. But it is reality.


There is a way I can assist you get your fund without you paying any charges to get your fund, it is risky but one has to

take it, I have assisted one woman from Mexico with it, it worked out though her fund was US$2.5m-. What you have to do is

to open another bank account any where, if you can open it in another place, it will be nice, but what you have to bear in

mind is that you have to re-transfer the fund to another account immediately you confirmed it in your account, I know why I

want it this way.


If you want me to go ahead, let me know as soon as you get this mail, if I make the transfer into your account this week,

it might be next three months that they will find out and by then, you have re-transferred the fund into another account.


Get back to me as soon as you get this mail so that I will be in better position to know what to do.Get back to me on this

email: drveronica01@mail.kz



Dr. Mrs. Veronica Amadi [JP]
KTT UNIT CBN




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Fw: urgent;my late father funds

Now this one is SOOOOO complicated. Can't understand it at all man. You seem to be making things up as you go along.


------Original Message------
From: joseph kumar
ReplyTo: kumars@blumail.org
Subject: urgent;my late father funds
Sent: Aug 1, 2012 5:24 PM

Dear Sir,
Greetings from Accra - Ghana

I would like you to help me receive my late father consignment funds; I am
looking for a God-fearing person. Let me introduce myself to you. My name
is Joseph kumar from Sudan Darfur am a refugee from Sudan presently in
buduburam refugee camp accra ghana, my late father consignment containing
$18 million dollars is in the United States. The consignment was to be
deliver to mrs . teisha stratlin of alabama she is my family foreign
beneficiary. But she died of cancer during the process of delivery the
consignment to her while the consignment and the UN diplomat is already in
Miami Florida.

The consignments are presently in States. The consignment gets to States
through the help of a U.N diplomat col.bomgo sikwe When he got to the
States after clearing the consignment from the Airport, he called mrs.
Teisha sratlin to give him the description to is house for the delivery,
but his house maid answered the call and told col. Bomgo sikwe that mrs
teisha died some few hours due to her cancer sickness.

I need your assistance urgently; I want you to stand as my God parent /
beneficiary to retrieve the consignment from the diplomat. And let him
know that I gave you the order to contact him and let him tell you how he
can deliver the consignment two trunk boxes to your house of office
safely and also I don't want you to let him know the content of the two
boxes because my late foreign partner ask me not to tell any one due to
security reasons.

Please, I want you to give me a call as soon as you receive this mail so I
can talk with you and also give you the details information of the UN
diplomat in the states;i will send you the documents covering the
consignment as I receive your reply to my mail…

kumars@blumail.org

I await your urgent response.
Joseph kumar (buduburam refugee camp accra Ghana) +233-242-852-475



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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Fw: Did you authorize a Woman few days ago to claim your fund on your behalf? I expect your Urgent reply.



No I did not. Don't you dare give anyone my money.
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From: "FROM THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA, DR. ISMAILA YUSUF"<cbn@cenbank.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 17:37:49 -0700
ReplyTo: <centralbank_cenbank1@superposta.com>
Subject: Did you authorize a Woman few days ago to claim your fund on your behalf? I expect your Urgent reply.

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
Corporal Head Office,
Central Business District,
P.M.B 0187,
Gariki, Abuja-F.C.T
 
Our Ref: CBN-OFID/DO/CIR./Vol.1/2012
 
FOREIGN PAYMENT NOTIFICATION FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR CBN, ON INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT.
 
Dear Beneficiary,
 
RE: YOUR INHERITANCE/CONTRACT FUND NOTIFICATION VIA ATM DEBIT CARD.
 
we have received an instruction from the office of the presidency, the federal ministry of finance (FMF), and the senate committee on foreign payments (SCFP), to pay you your contract/inheritance fund from our bank (Central Bank of Nigeria) in conjunction with the HSBC bank London via ATM DEBIT CARD. This is to notify you that your fund which is total sum of ten million five hundred thousand dollars (US$10, 500,000.00), as your contract/inheritance fund have been programmed for immediate payment to you via ATM DEBIT CARD. And your fund payment has been finalized to be released to you as the legitimate beneficiary of the fund, via ATM DEBIT CARD.
 
Meanwhile, we want you to clarify if you indeed approve a woman few days ago to claim your fund on your behalf, who now claim that she is your representative sent by you to receive this fund on your behalf. Note that she actually tendered some vital documents, which proved that you actually sent her for the collection of these funds. Below is the list of the documents' which she tendered to the bank:
 
1. Letter of administration.
2. High court injunction.
3. Order to release.
 
Due to the nature of my job, I cannot afford to make any mistake in releasing these funds to anyone except you who is the recognized true beneficiary to these funds. Note that I asked her to come back next week so I can verify this fact from you first. Kindly clarify us on this issue before we make this payment to her who came on your behalf. However, note that we are waiting to hear from you shortly, as you provide the required information bellow to enable our international foreign payment department to process your payment file and release your fund to you immediately via ATM DEBIT CARD. The required information is as stated below:
 
1. Your Full Name:
2. Your Address:
3. Your Telephone:
4. Your Fax:
5. Your Age:
6. Sex:
7. Your Occupation:
 
Note that upon receipt of the above requested information, we shall be able to reconfirm and effect your payment to you via ATM DEBIT CARD. From the office of the presidency, this reputable bank has been approved in conjunction with the HSBC bank London, they have been accredited to handle and make payment to all foreign contract/inheritance funds beneficiaries in this quarter payment of the year 2012 via ATM DEBIT CARD. Therefore, we wait to hear from you soon.
 
Best regards,
 
Dr. Ismaila yusuf
Deputy Governor Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
On Foreign Payment Department/International Credit Settlement.

Fw: From the Desk Of Mr. Peter Marriot.

This one seems to have brain damage.

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-----Original Message-----
From: "THE BRITISH FINANCE MONITORING UNIT"<britishfinancemonitoringunit876@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:20:24
Reply-To: <b_tfunit2@yahoo.com.hk>
Subject: From the Desk Of Mr. Peter Marriot.

THE BRITISH FINANCE MONITORING UNIT
8th floor ellerman house,12-20 camomile street,
ec3a 7jp, United kingdom.
LONDON, ENGLAND.
Tel:/fax;+447035934484


From the Desk Of Mr. Peter Marriot.
Office Of The Director,
British Finance Monitoring Unit.
London, England.


Attention:


Be inform that it has come to our notice that a huge sum of money has been
credited in your name for transfer and is currently floating in the
international banking community.

Under the stipulated Law of the Government of Great Britain and other
member countries of the United Nations, any huge amount of money that has
been found in the international computer data system waiting to be
transferred without claims for a period of 6 months or less, shall be
confiscated and forfeited to the United Nations account.

We do hereby ask you to contact this office immediately for ratification
within the 3 days of this notice by forwarding to us all your current
information including your direct telephone number and postal address
where your original payment release documents will be send to you in order
for us to confirm your personal receipt of this fund or consider your fund
confiscated.

Be informed that as soon as we receive your current data then we will
endorse with the legal preparation of your payment release documents and
immediately instruct our authorized Bank of International Settlement (BIS)
to release your funds by forwarding your file to them for immediate
payment consideration.



FIRST NAME:---------------------------------------------------------

LAST NAME:----------------------------------------------------------

SEX:----------------------------------------------------------------------

AGE:-------------------------------------------------------------

OCCUPATION:-------------------------------------------------------------

FULL ADDRESS:-------------------------------------------------------------

COUNTRY:.....................................................................................


TEL / MOBILE
#:-------------------------------------------------------------------


I
...................................................................hereby
declare that the above DATA are true, and in case of any unforeseen
circumstances.


We appreciate your urgent co-operation.

OFFICIAL USE ONLY BY THIS OFFICE (BFMU)


Verified by: ------------------------------ Confirmed by:
------------------------------

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. Peter Marroit
The Director
British Finance Monitoring Unit.

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: THIS COMMUNICATION AND ITS ATTACHMENTS MAY CONTAIN
NON-PUBLIC, CONFIDENTIAL OR LEGALLY PRIVILEGED INFORMATION. THE UNLAWFUL
INTERCEPTION, USE OR DISCLOSURE OF SUCH INFORMATION IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU
ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, OR HAVE RECEIVED THIS COMMUNICATION IN
ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY THE SENDER IMMEDIATELY BY REPLY EMAIL AND DELETE ALL
COPIES OF THIS

Fw: From the Desk Of Mr. Peter Marriot.

Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone provided by Airtel Nigeria.

-----Original Message-----
From: "THE BRITISH FINANCE MONITORING UNIT"<britishfinancemonitoringunit876@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:20:24
Reply-To: <b_tfunit2@yahoo.com.hk>
Subject: From the Desk Of Mr. Peter Marriot.

THE BRITISH FINANCE MONITORING UNIT
8th floor ellerman house,12-20 camomile street,
ec3a 7jp, United kingdom.
LONDON, ENGLAND.
Tel:/fax;+447035934484


From the Desk Of Mr. Peter Marriot.
Office Of The Director,
British Finance Monitoring Unit.
London, England.


Attention:


Be inform that it has come to our notice that a huge sum of money has been
credited in your name for transfer and is currently floating in the
international banking community.

Under the stipulated Law of the Government of Great Britain and other
member countries of the United Nations, any huge amount of money that has
been found in the international computer data system waiting to be
transferred without claims for a period of 6 months or less, shall be
confiscated and forfeited to the United Nations account.

We do hereby ask you to contact this office immediately for ratification
within the 3 days of this notice by forwarding to us all your current
information including your direct telephone number and postal address
where your original payment release documents will be send to you in order
for us to confirm your personal receipt of this fund or consider your fund
confiscated.

Be informed that as soon as we receive your current data then we will
endorse with the legal preparation of your payment release documents and
immediately instruct our authorized Bank of International Settlement (BIS)
to release your funds by forwarding your file to them for immediate
payment consideration.



FIRST NAME:---------------------------------------------------------

LAST NAME:----------------------------------------------------------

SEX:----------------------------------------------------------------------

AGE:-------------------------------------------------------------

OCCUPATION:-------------------------------------------------------------

FULL ADDRESS:-------------------------------------------------------------

COUNTRY:.....................................................................................


TEL / MOBILE
#:-------------------------------------------------------------------


I
...................................................................hereby
declare that the above DATA are true, and in case of any unforeseen
circumstances.


We appreciate your urgent co-operation.

OFFICIAL USE ONLY BY THIS OFFICE (BFMU)


Verified by: ------------------------------ Confirmed by:
------------------------------

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. Peter Marroit
The Director
British Finance Monitoring Unit.

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: THIS COMMUNICATION AND ITS ATTACHMENTS MAY CONTAIN
NON-PUBLIC, CONFIDENTIAL OR LEGALLY PRIVILEGED INFORMATION. THE UNLAWFUL
INTERCEPTION, USE OR DISCLOSURE OF SUCH INFORMATION IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU
ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, OR HAVE RECEIVED THIS COMMUNICATION IN
ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY THE SENDER IMMEDIATELY BY REPLY EMAIL AND DELETE ALL
COPIES OF THIS

Fw: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL.

There must be a rat in this.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mr Andy Galloway <galloway_mrandy@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:56:16
Reply-to: mrandy005@yahoo.com.hk
Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL.



ATTN:

RE:INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROPOSAL.

I am an investment/financial management consultant; I represent and partners
with an investment group based in the Switzerland.

I was consulted by my client who is currently seeking means of expanding and
relocating his business interest abroad in the following sectors: oil/Gas,
banking, real estate, stock speculation and mining,transportation, health
sector and tobacco, Communication Services, Agriculture Forestry &
Fishing, thus
any sector, to provide him with a reliable investment partner.

If you have a solid background and idea of making good profit in any of the
mentioned business sectors or any other business in your country, Please write
me for possible business co-operation. More so, we are ready to facilitate and
fund any business that is capable of generating minimum of 10% annual
return on
investment (AROI) Joint Venture partnership and Hard loan funding can also be
considered.

I am confident that you will give your consideration to this proposal and
respond positively within a short period of time. I am available to discuss
this proposal with you and to answer any questions you may have in regard to
this fund.

As soon as you give your positive response to this proposal, I will not
hesitate in sending you the details information of this business.

This transaction is 100% RISK FREE.

I look forward to discussing this opportunity further with you.


Thanks and very best regards.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr Andy Galloway

ATTN:

RE:INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROPOSAL.

I am an investment/financial management consultant; I represent and partners
with an investment group based in the Switzerland.

I was consulted by my client who is currently seeking means of expanding and
relocating his business interest abroad in the following sectors: oil/Gas,
banking, real estate, stock speculation and mining,transportation, health
sector and tobacco, Communication Services, Agriculture Forestry &
Fishing, thus
any sector, to provide him with a reliable investment partner.

If you have a solid background and idea of making good profit in any of the
mentioned business sectors or any other business in your country, Please write
me for possible business co-operation. More so, we are ready to facilitate and
fund any business that is capable of generating minimum of 10% annual
return on
investment (AROI) Joint Venture partnership and Hard loan funding can also be
considered.

I am confident that you will give your consideration to this proposal and
respond positively within a short period of time. I am available to discuss
this proposal with you and to answer any questions you may have in regard to
this fund.

As soon as you give your positive response to this proposal, I will not
hesitate in sending you the details information of this business.

This transaction is 100% RISK FREE.

I look forward to discussing this opportunity further with you.


Thanks and very best regards.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr Andy Galloway

Fwd: Special Agent In Charge of the FBI Atlanta, Ga Division

 

 

All this talk about money makes me hungry !

 


---------- Original Message ----------
From: F B I <FbibriaN@estate.ocn.ne.jp>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Date: 27 July 2012 at 12:42
Subject: Special Agent In Charge of the FBI Atlanta, Ga Division

From: Agent Brian D. Lamkin Office
Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Atlanta Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Intelligence field unit
2635 Century Parkway N.E,
Suite 400 Atlanta, GA 30345 USA
 
 
 
Urgent Attention:
 
 
 
I am special agent Brian D. Lamkin from the federal bureau of investigation (Atlanta division) intelligence unit. We have just intercepted and confiscated two (2) trunk boxes at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta international airport, and are on the verge of moving it to our bureau head quarters.
 
 
 
We have scanned the said boxes, and have found it to contain a total sum of USD$4.1m and also backup document which bears your name as the receiver of the money contained in the boxes. Investigations carried out on the diplomat who accompanied the boxes into the United States has it that he was to deliver this fund to your residence as your contract/inheritance payment which was due you from the office of finance Minster of the federal government of Nigeria.
 
 
 
We cross-checked all legal documentation in the boxes, and were about to release the consignment to the diplomat, when we found out that the boxes is lacking one very important documentation which as a result, the boxes have been confiscated until the required document is provided.
 
 
 
According to section 229 subsections 31 of the 1991 constitution on release of unclaimed consignment payment, your consignment lacks funds ownership certificate and for that reason you must contact me for direction on how to procure this certificate, so that your consignment can be legally cleared and okay for delivery to you.
 
 
 
You are required to contact this bureau within 72 hours or we would take it that you do not want your consignment, and would move it to the treasury Also, you must not contact any other bank for any payment, because your payment is here in care of our storage vault team and will be released to you once you follow my directives
 
 
 
You have been warned.
 
 
 
Yours in service
Brian D. Lamkin
Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Atlanta Division