by David Jansen
Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:45 am
This is a compensation scam targeted at scam victims. The scammer tries to make the victim believe they can be compensated for the loss of their money, but as with all scams, the scammer will ask to pay for fees or other costs to release the money. Don't fall for this scam!
IMF FUND [email protected]
From: "CHIEF ACCOUNTANT GENERAL."
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT HAS BEEN APPROVED.
Date: 5th Sep. 2012
CHIEF ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
FROM: ENGR.BABA ADAMU
Federal Secretariat Towers (5th & 10th floors)
Shehu Shagari Way, Central Area, Garki,Abuja.
Direct line 234-805-501-6720
Attn: Sir,
How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? You may not understand why this mail came to you. I am Engr.Baba Adamu, the Chief Accountant General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Due to series of petition received from International Bodies on the way fraudsters around the world especially Nigerians defrauded them, my good self on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria have been having a meeting with the Secretary-General to the UNITED NATIONS, Ban Ki-moon for the past 10 days which ended 3 days ago.
Been the outcome of our meeting, we are sending this email to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, we have agreed to release your payment with immediate effect upon the receipt of your reply. This includes every foreign contractor that may have not received their contract sum and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Bank problems etc.
We found your name and email address on the List supplied to us by the UNITED NATIONS and that is why we are contacting you. It has however been agreed upon that you should be paid with immediate effect following the approval of your payment by my office in agreement with the UNITED NATION'S Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. We thereby cancel every bank or institution claiming to be approved bodies for the remittance of your fund because we have arrested so many fake bank directors/institutions at this moment & thorough arrest is still going on because we want to fish all of them out from there hiding places.
You are advised to get back to us as soon as possible, to enable us process your fund and release it accordingly.
Congratulations!
Yours Faithfully
ENGR.BABA ADAMU
Chief Accountant General (Federal Republic of Nigeria)
Central Area, Garki, Abuja.
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