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An Email with the Subject "From:World Bank\United Nation" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:11:24 -0500 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email. The sender shows as "World Bank/United Nation office"<sandyowen@optusnet.com.au>.
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WORLD BANK\UNITED NATION FACT FINDING AND APPROVAL OF FOREIGN DEBT PAYMENT
(WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME) DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT AND
TRANSFERS.870 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA 20-ANEW YORK NY 10017
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT
Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX027
ATTN:BENEFICIARY!
FOREIGN DEBT RECONCILIATION
We have actually been authorized by the Presidency of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria and the governing board of Central Bank of Nigeria, the British
Government with the help of the World Bank to investigate the unnecessary delay
of your inheritance/contract payment, Recommend and approve your claims for
Payment if certified as genuine.
Your name among others were forwarded to my humble office for verification of
your surname in accordance with the beneficiary record, during the course of Our
investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been
Unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank, who are Trying to divert
Your funds into their private accounts.As I found out that you have almost met
all the statutory requirements in Respect of your pending payment, a lot of
people are interested in your payment And those people are merely doing paper
works with you and that explains why you receive fax and phone messages from
different people everyday.
To forestall this, security for your funds was organized in the form of your
Personal Identification number (PIN) this will enable only you have direct
Control over this fund. We have also agreed with the IMF that we will monitor
This payment ourselves to avoid the hopeless situation created by the Officials
of the bank.
We are happy to inform you that based on our verification your surname matched
with beneficiary’s record, your outstanding Contract Fund of ten Million
United States Dollars ($US10.M). We shall later advised You to contact CBN
Foreign Remittance Director, to indicate your preferred mode of payment.
You are advised to furnish me with this below information:
(1) Your full name(2) Address (3)Personal Cell phone /fax and mobile(4) Company
Name (5) Occupation/position (6) Age and Marital Status (7) copy
of your Int'l passport /driver's license if available (8)equity line of
credit {yes}or {no}
We expect your urgent response to this email to enable us monitor this payment
Effectively.
CONGRATULATIONS!
From:Werrent Honlins
SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT
TO:MR. BAN KI-MOON,
SECRETARY.