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Header: ATT: MS *************

ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNION

UNITY SECRETARIAT 20th January 2014
633 Aviation Road,
4 Airport Residential Area, P.O. Box M.386,Accra.

Acting Head of Representation:Andrew C Kawanah

Telephone: 02469 62128

E-mail: [email protected]



ATT: MS ****** .



Dear Mrs ****** ,



The (AFRICAN UNION) AU in conjunction with Ecowas Community Monetary Inspection has finally stopped your fund which was transferred with out legal document, that back up the transaction from Bank Atlantic in Lome Togo on Friday17th day of January. 2014 to your local bank account in BANK COMMERZBANK ***** ,in account number ********** and account name ****** with Swift/Iban Number ****** amount involve Usd$7 000 000:00(Seven Million United States Dollars)

Madam after our research we do confirm that the mention transaction was not accompany with legal instruction under finance in AU monetary law under article 309 of the financial constitution.



We do wish to inform you that before the said funds will be release and credit to your account in COMMERZBANK ***** GERMANY. you are instructed to obtain a TRANSFER CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE and also CERTIFICATE OF ANTI MONEY LAUNDRY, from our commission as this show the authenticity of this funds.



You are instructed to contact this office for more details /instruction on how to obtain ANTI MONEY LAUNDRY CERTIFICATE that will enable this commission release your funds immediately to its designated bank account in Albania.



Warm Regards

Andrew C Kawanah

Acting Head of Representation

Officer (A.U-COMMUNITY

(PS: I censored any personal data with the *. Thanks for your help in advance. Greets, nf.Ruksa)

Added quotation. (BW)

Hi nf.Ruksa, welcome to scamwarners.

Yes, this is most definitely a scam. It is a classic case of the 419 advance fee fraud, which promises large sums of money which can only be released to you if you provide some documents which you obviously have to pay for. The money doesn't exist, the only goal is to scam money from you.

Delete the mail, stop all communication and ignore any future incoming messages.

If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to ask!

Hi Michael,

thanks for your quick reply. The $7mio named in the e-mail, is a transaction that acutally happened on 17th from Togo to Germany and we're waiting for the money. However, today that mail came, which is basically saying, that they froze the transaction if im understanding it right!? I can't find any evidence on the internet for those certificates required and it seems absurd to need a money laundry certificate for a transaction from one bank to another! What are your thoughts?

edit: contracts for that money are made, it's for business purpose and 100% not laundered money!

Welcome to Scamwarners nf.Ruksa,

As Michael stated it is 100% Scam. There is not 7 Million Dollars. Everything the scammer is telling you is a lie.

The scammer is playing all roles in this scam. The scammer is trying to steal your money. He will have you pay all kinds of fee's for the pretend money that will never come.

Read here on Advance Fee Fraud/Scam viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3242

Do not send any Money to the Scammer. Stop all contact with him. He will only lie to you more and try to steal your money.

Hey Byron Williams,

have you read my reply to Michael?

Greets,
nf.Ruksa

[AlanJones]

The $7mio named in the e-mail, is a transaction that acutally happened on 17th from Togo to Germany and we're waiting for the money.

As Michael and Byron said it is definitely a scam and the $7mil does not exist.

You say that the transaction happened on the 17th - how has this been proved to you? Were you given a website to view the transaction on? The website will be fake, set up to back up the scam - if you post the details here, we will be able to give you proof that the site is fake.

The transfer slip:
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/3508/9z25b6wb_jpg.htm

The Bank (as you can see ):

http://www.banqueatlantique.net/

Greets,
nf.Ruksa

[AlanJones]

The website is a strange one - it has been around for nearly 10 years, which would be unusual for a fake site. But it doesn't hold true as a legitimate bank site.

The contact link goes nowhere, so there is no way of contacting the bank. Also, it was registered by someone in Hong Kong, which would be strange for a African bank.

Unfortunately, the transfer slip proves nothing - I could knock something similar up using Photoshop in 1/2 an hour.

The big clue that you are dealing with a scammer is in your original post. They are writing to you using the email address [email protected], which is a free email address and not one that an official organisation would use.

[AlanJones]

I have now come to the conclusion that the website is legitimate - but it is still a scam.

I would suggest that you phone the Togo office of the bank (228) 220 88 92 and ask them about the transfer slip - although the only place I have found that phone number is on the bank website.

If you really want to be sure you are dealing with the real bank, they have a Paris office +33 1 77 353636 and I found a picture of that branch on Google maps so it definitely exists and the number appears on other sites - I am sure that they can confirm the phone number of their Togo office.

The person that has contacted us today, is not the same person, that we're dealing with for the money reasons. The person that we're dealing with is a private person and has a private e-mail adresse, which i'm not going to reveal. The bankiers e-mail adress, whom we got the transfer slip from is: [email protected].

To get more clarity into the situation:

We were dealing with that private person due to business reasons (and their bankier). They've (atleast said) that they transfered the money on friday, including the transfer slip. Today we received the above e-mail from [email protected] and that one seemed weird.

edit: contracts for that money are made, it's for business purpose and 100% not laundered money!

Which ones, if I may ask? How were you contacted?

The Bank (as you can see ):

http://www.banqueatlantique.net/

So you logged in on that website, and saw a confirmation of the transfer?

[email protected]

That is a free webmail address, comparable to hotmail and gmail.com. No way on earth a legitimate bank uses that service.

[AlanJones]

[email protected] is another free email address and not one a real bank would be using - if you were dealing with the real bank, I would expect them to have an @banqueatlantique.net email address.

The scammers are just using the name and website of the bank to back up their scam - if you ask them to provide an @banqueatlantique.net email address, they will not be able to do so.

100% Scam . Even if the website turned out to be legit . Scammers often times have accomplices working inside legit businesses . This is where they get all the fake documents they use . The scammers could have someone working inside that bank .

@Michael:

We got contacted by e-mail.
We we're contacted by a woman from togo 4 weeks ago. My mother has a music promotion business and therefore her e-mail adress is publicly available. The content of the e-mail was, that she has inherited $7mio from her husband and that she wants her 17 year old son to get education in europe. $3.5mio are for the educational purposes. $2.1mio are meant to be for any social project and $1.4 mio were meant to be for my mother as pay, providing all the organizing for her son to study in europe (Aquiring a Visa, a flat, a private university etc.). E-mails went back and forth until they had sorted everything out.
My mother got contacted by a bankier, who asked her to open a bank account in Togo. However, since she get's alot of scam mail, she wasn't ready to do that and told him so. The woman told my mother that she is going to organize a normal bank transfer, so that she would not have to spent any money before receiving the pay of $7mio. My mother and the woman finalized a contract, in which the splitting of the money was clearly stated, inorder for my mother not to get into trouble with authorities here in germany, since it wasn't all meant for her. All this process took 4 weeks, phone contact was made with her son. (he also has a facebook profile)
Last friday all the paper work was done and we received the transfer slip via e-mail.
It didn't seem like scam, due to the excessive e-mail contact, the contracts and all that. Seems like it is after all?

edit: we have not send a penny to anyone!!

The only money involved in this situation is yours, if you follow instructions to send money by Western Union or MoneyGram for various permits, fees, and bribes.