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From: John Jay <westernunion94@cantv.net>
Reply-To: western_union71@hotmail.com
Subject: I'm western union Agent
Attention:Please My Dear XXX
Thanks for your E-mail we received dated 30th March , 2015 and we do apologize for our late response. Secondly, I am Mr. John Nze the Managing Director WESTERN UNION Money Transfer office Benin Republic.
The transfer of your funds has commenced today with your first payment of $5000.00 already sent as ordered by the Federal Ministry for Finance. What is required of you is $70 for activation fee of your MTCN of all your transfers and this payment must be made to this office before the transfer information for you to pick up your first payment will be released.
Please you are advised to go the WESTERN UNION Money Transfer and effect payment for the activation fee of your MTCN immediately and start receiving your funds without delay. For security reasons, you are advised not to expose this or the total amount of money you are receiving to people as you are only advised to move to any western union Money Transfer in your area and make the needed payment or you can also send it through Western Union to the information provided below and you shall receive the transfer information to pick your first payment within an hour today.
You shall be provided with necessary documents covering your funds with your transfer information as soon as your activation fee is confirmed paid over here as we are not allowed to release vital documents without receiving your fee and commencing the transfer.
Your $70 activation fee covers all the transfer of your full funds and you shall start receiving your funds from this office as soon as the payment is confirmed from you today.
The Federal Ministry of Finance also mandated that on no account shall any form of money be deducted from your total funds as it has to be receive in exact amount as it is recorded to avoid mistakes.
You are hereby advised to go to any nearest western union transfer office around your Area and make the $70 payment for the activation fee and start receiving your payments through this WESTERN UNION Money Transfer office within 1hr-45mins of confirming your fee made over here.
Reconfirms that below is the transfer address for your funds.
Your name --
However, We were instructed by federal Ministry to transfer your funds to you via our service (WESTERN UNION money transfer office) so you will be receiving $5000.00 usd daily until it completes the total amount of Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United State Dollars ($950,000 Thousand) as we have in our file here
In addition, this is to let you know that $5000.00 has been sent already as your first payment and the transfer information is kept on hold by this office and shall be released as soon as we hear from you.
Please i will like you to give me a call +22998954729 as soon as you send the $70.00 to avoid delays on this transaction as we have no excess time and as you know that your funds has lasted for a very long time than given, to avoid transferring your funds into government account due to failure to comply.
Hope you understand my point? So your urgent response is highly needed
YOU ARE TO MAKE THE NEEDED PAYMENT THROUGH WESTERN UNION TRANSFER OFFICE AND TO THE INFORMATION BELOW;
Receiver name: Mike Idigo
Country: Republic of Benin
City/Address :Cotonou
Text Question :In God
Answer :we Trust
Amount :$70.00 usd
And on a very Important note, Be rest assured that you will confirm your first payment of $5000.00 within 1hr-45m of receiving the $70.00 And for your information, No body has right to deduct or Added to the value of the funds due to it is pounded with Insurance policy. The instruction is from the Federal ministry of Finance Benin Republic
Your urgent respond is highly needed
Mr. John Nze From WESTERN UNION Money Transfer Benin Rep