An Email with the Subject "Re: You are notified." was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sat, 28 Nov 2015 16:36:26 -0800 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "Office of Accountant General of The Federation"<info@yahoo.com>.
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FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. GARKI-ABUJA. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. [OFFICE OF THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION] FINANCIAL SECTOR SURVEILLANCE. GARKI-ABUJA. Attn: Beneficiary. Sir, Our Ref: You are Involved. Your Ref: ..... Date: 24/11/2015. As regards to the just concluded World Economic forum held in Abuja mandating all outstanding payment owed to foreigners be settled/paid on or before the end of the 3rd quarter of the year 2015 to enable foreign investors entrance into the business scope of this country and its resolve that fraud victims be compensated to re-brand the image of the nation, we hereby update you through your email contact for your immediate confirmation response back to this office as your name appeared among the beneficiaries who will receive a total of $3,450,000.00 {Three Million Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars) through this forum for your trauma and losses to the fraudsters. It is now approved for payment by the Federal Ministry of Finance . It is discovered that Victims are lured to such false transactions as contract payment schemes, Next of kin / inheritance claims, lottery and fake game wins. However we received an email from one Mr. Mark Law, that he is your next of kin and that you are incapacitated to received the fund due to ill health. He submitted an account information to the department for transfer of the fund payment as your inheritor of the fund stated herein. We decided to contact you on verifying your email address as we have in our records before we can make the payment and for us to conclude confirmation if you are aware or not of the above claim. With your confirmation we will expedite action on your payment immediately without further delay . Meanwhile,Your current phone number / contact address should be made available to this ministry in acknowledgement of this notice to effect the processing and release of your compensation amount by the nominated bank. You are therefore advised to discontinue further communication with fraudsters to forestall cancellation of your allotment {$3,450m}. Sir, we sincerely apologize for all your past experience in the hands of the fraudsters and as well our delay in updating you . We wait your response . Thanks. Alhaji Mustapha Haruna. Secretary to the Accountant General of the Federation. Tel: +234 703 063 8229