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An Email with the Subject "YOUR ATM CARD IS READY TO TRANSFER" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sat, 30 May 2009 13:21:50 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "MICHAEL JOHN"<michaeljoh01@gmail.com>.
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Payment/notification
United Nations organization in conjunction with the international monetary fund World Bank
fact-finding & special duties office of the director special duties Cotonou republic of Benin.
Attn:
The world bank group, fact finding & special duties office in conjunction with the united nations
organization, has received part of your pending payment with reference number (lm-05-371) amounting
to $10,000,000.00usd (Ten million us dollars) out of your contractual/inheritance funds from our
bank quoting reference to uno/wbf lm-05-371, the said payment is been arranged in ATM MASTER CARD
according to information gathered from the bank's security computer we were notified that you have
waited for so long to receive this payment without success.
I HAVE PAID FOR THE DELIVERY CHARGES KINDLY RECONFIRM THE FOLLOWING INFORMATIONS BELOW:
1: YOUR FULL NAME------------
2: YOUR HOME ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND THE ATM CARD----------
3: CURRENT OCCUPATION-----------
4: AGE---------------
5: YOUR MOBILE PHONE NUMBER----------
6: A COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION----------
Shipment will commence as soon as you reconfirm your contact address of the person who is going to
receive your (ATM MASTER CARD) so you have noting to worry about. After all arrangements we have
concluded! That you must donate (five hundred thousand United States dollars) to a charity
organization in your destination as soon as you receive your inheritance fund (ATM MASTER CARD). To
this effect, in your response you should send to us a promissory note promising to donate the
stated amount to a charity organization.
Please keep this transaction to yourself for now till the fund (ATM MASTER CARD) gets to you as it
may cause a lot of problems if they found out that we are using this medium to help you.
The above requirement qualifies you for final remittance process of the above stated sum.
Congratulations.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Michael John
+229-93604982
DIRECTOR, SPECIAL DUTIES UNO/WBF