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Have you received an email from "DR WILLIAM IBRU", claiming "We hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to pay you,your over due contract/inheritance fund" and Nigeria owes you money from a "contract/inheritance payment file", whatever that may be, and he will send you the money on an ATM card, if you contact "MR ADAM BENSON"? "DR WILLIAM IBRU" is a highly educated and highly ranking lawyer or government official who apparently can't spell and feels the odd need to randomly capitalize some WORDS (like that). If this doesn't immediately strike you as a scam, then allow us to point out the inconsistencies and how the scam works.
It's a mystery who the dead guy is or why he named you as a beneficiary or what the "contract" was, but you better reply pretty quickly or risk losing millions from the "contract/inheritance payment file". Also notice that the "lawyer" is writing to you from a free email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.); in fact, they typically use more than one different free email accounts.
Of course, even if what is presented in the email were true; you would be committing several felonies, including fraud.
If you would like a step by step explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!
Notification of payment by ATM Master Credit Card
FROM THE DESK OF DR WILLIAM IBRU
DIRECTOR,INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT,
OCEANIC BANK PLC
LAGOS-NIGERIA.Notification of payment by ATM Master Credit Card
Attn: Beneficiary,
We hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to pay you,your over due contract/inheritance fund which you could not complete the process of the released of your transfer pin code through the Digitalized Payment System. We have decided to pay your funds without any requested fee butthrough (ATM Master Express Credit Card) This arrangement was initiated/constituted by the World Bank and Paris Club, due to fruadelent activities going on within the African Region.
The World Bank and Paris Club introduced this payment arrangement as to enable our contractors/inheritance beneficiary to receive their fund without any interfference. the ATM Master Express Credit Card was contracted and powered by GOLD CARD WORLD WIDE.
Reconfirm the following information to us for Security reason.
1)YOUR FULL NAME
2)YOUR RECEIVING ADDRESS.
3)YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER
4)YOUR PROFESSION
Upon the receipt of this mail we are going to load your fund USD$1,000,000 ONE MILLION Usd into the Master Express Credit Card and send a scan copy of the card to you before we will proceed to despatch the card directly to your nominated home addresss so you absolutely have nothing to worry about all we need is your Prompt Response and Co-operation by Gods Grace we will have a successfull Transaction.
Contact the ATM CARD department
MR ADAM BENSON
Email To Contact ( atm_card@post.ro )
CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE.
BEST REGARDS,
DR WILLIAM IBRU
DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT,
OCEANIC BANK PLC ,
LAGOS-NIGERIA.CC: ALL FOREIGN INHERITTANCE FUNDS
CC:CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR
CC: BOARD OF DIRECTORS [FPD]
CC: ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF NIGERIA
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