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Federal Reserve Bank of America

33 Liberty Street,

New York, NY 10045.

Our Ref: FRB-75BFNYUS09 Your Ref:-------

Attention Fund Beneficiary

Payment Release Instruction From Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Acting on our capacity as the international correspondent bank to the International Monetary Fund Organization, this is to officially notify you that we have received a confirmation advice from the International Monetary Funds External Auditors Committee, World Bank, United Nations Organization and the

Federal Reserve Bank of America respectively via International Payment Voucher Number: IMF/FRBWDC/BOA-93WB82UN567-G requesting our bank to direct the FIRST CITY MONUMENT BANK USA N.A., a subsidiary of the Federal Reserve Bank of America to disburse your due wining/inheritance and contract payment valued at

Seven Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$7.3M) in your favour via their branch in New York.

In consideration of the above, you have been issued with this Exclusive Reference Identification Number (IMF/FRB-NY/9USXX10751/09), Vide Transaction No.: WHA/EUR/202 and Transfer Allocation No.: FRB/X44/701LN/NYC/US, Password: 339331, Pin Code: 78569, Certificate of Merit No: 104, Release Code No:

0876; Immediate First City Monument Bank Telex Confirmation No: -222568; Secret Code: XXTN014. Having received these vital payment numbers, you are instantly qualified to receive and confirm your payment within the next 72hrs. as necessary clearance has been granted from the International Monetary Funds External Auditors to release the funds to you with immediate effect.

In view of this directive received from the International Monetary Funds (IMF), we have on our own part verified your payment file as directed to us, and your name is next on the list of outstanding fund beneficiaries to receive their payment at this Second quarter of year 2009. With that being done, you

are required to urgently contact the FCMB USA N.A. in New York through their International Funds Release Supervisor:

Contact Person: Sir. Bill Efron.

(Head, Funds Release Supervisor)

Email: [email protected]

Direct Office Line: 914 373 6375

Fax: 206 426 3179

And reconfirm your international payment voucher number and your reference identification number respectively before that office with a view to the final remittance approval and subsequent crediting of your bank account to the tune of funds as stated herein.

We wish to inform you of the need for you to also re-confirm your full personal and contact details before the FCMB BANK USA N.A. in New York to enable the officer in-charge to proceed with the preliminary arrangements that will enhance the immediate release of your funds. Owing to security reasons, be

clearly informed that we will not respond to any phone calls/general inquiries placed to our bank with regards to the remittance of your funds by beneficiaries as we are barred from doing so, you are therefore advised to communicate only with the accredited officer for further remittance advice.

1) Your Full name;

3) Your contact telephone and fax number;

4) Your Age and Profession;

5) Copy of any valid form of your Identification;

6) Your Bank name;

7) Your Bank Address;

8) Account name and Number;

9) ABA/Routing Number;

10) Swift or Sort Code/IBAN;

Thank you for your anticipated co-operation.

TREAT AS URGENT.

MS. MARGRET C. WILSON,

DIRECTOR OF FUNDS CLEARANCE UNIT.

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Notice To Recipient: This email (and any attachments) is only intended for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. You, the recipient, are obligated to maintain it in a safe, secure and confidential manner. Unauthorized

redisclosure or failure to maintain confidentiality may subject you to federal and state penalties. If you are not the recipient, please immediately notify Federal Reserve Bank of New York by return email, and delete this message from your computer

Re: is this scam?

Yep, my friend, I do strongly believe this is a very nice piece of scam. They put a lot of "look-a-like professional" text in the letter and added "necessary secret passwords" with couple of "professional jargon words" to give you the impression they're serious guys from very serious bank.

Wouldn't be surprised if one clever boy from Nigeria (you know those "nigerian letters" sometimes we receive) was spamming this to dozens of hundreds of people with spamming machine.

The reason?

To get your personal data and in the end to steal your money from Visa or whatever bank account.

My suggestion is to forget about it and to put its sender into the black list.

Re: is this scam?

THANKS

JUST TO ALERT TO EVERYONE IN HERE THAT RECIEVED THE SAME EMAIL

Re: is this scam?

Oh definitely. Thanks a lot

Re: is this scam?

Certainly is. Something like this happened to me.

Re: is this scam?

Looks like a good phishing scam for me..

Re: is this scam?

Hi guys,

I got also the same thing few months ago, and I verified all provided details and it turned up to be a big scam.

They just want to steal your money from your bank account, so be very careful.

Best wishes,

Re: is this scam?

I believe this is aScam!

Re: is this scam?

yes it is.

i also often receive it through my email account..

be carefull from the scam email like that.. 8-)

Re: is this scam?

looks like scam...

Re: is this scam?

Email: [email protected]

they use gmail :-/

scam detected ;)