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An Email with the Subject "PAYMENT NOTIFICATION: PLEASE RESPOND URGENTLY" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:11:08 -0400 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "Dr John Owen."<honcbngovng@yahoo.com>.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR.
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
Tinubu square, Lagos- Nigeria.
Our ref: Cbn/Ohg/Oxd1/2008
Your ref: ...............................
Telex: Cenbank.
Payment file: Cbn/Ben/08
PAYMENT NOTIFICATION OF YOUR FUND
Attn: Beneficiary,
Hello. We have decided to bring to your attention, the fact that we have done everything necessary
to make sure payments from the debt remittance account are made to the Bonafide Beneficiaries. I am
informing you of an attempt by some men to collect your payment on your behalf. I had to ask them
why they came to see me in person and they said that they came to collect your inheritance/contract
funds payment sum of $20M which rightfully belongs to you as shown in your file with us, on your
behalf and by your authorization.
However, I am writing you this email to find out from you if you actually sent them. Note that they
actually tendered some vital documents which proved that you actually sent them to collect these
funds. Below is the list of documents which they presented.
1) Letter of administration
2) Order to release
3) High court injunction
Due to the nature of my job, I cannot afford to make any mistake in releasing the funds to anyone
except you who is the recognized as true
beneficiary to these funds. I want to hear from you before I order the release of the funds to
these men who claim to be your representatives because they will be back to my office next week. I
decided to carry out this decision based on my work experience and this is a risk I cannot take
because I have not heard anything from you.
Kindly direct your response to the private email address of my boss,Prof. Charles Soludo, the
executive governor of the central bank of Nigeria Cbn, below for quicker deliberation and response
from him on the release of your funds to you. Please remember to indicate your personal phone
number he can reach you on in your response.
Note that for security reasons you have been assigned a code/password which is {TT7270CBN}, please
note that this code is the reference number for your transfer and it’s being disclosed to you
alone, guard this jealously and all your email response should carry this code as the subject.
Yours faithfully,
Dr John Owen.
Secretary.
To the Governor.
Central bank of Nigeria