No more writing blogs for me – I just received $8,300,000!

February 9th, 2010

All I have to do is to collect the money

This very official email sailed into my inbox sometime during the night where it was immediately diverted to the junk mail box. I fished it out from there to see what it is all about and found 8.3 million dollars waiting for me. E-mails like these usually come from Nigeria – this one comes direct from:

THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION

LONDON UNITED KINGDOM

It’s definitely mine!

The letter contains my reference numbers, a release code, a Payment Approval No., White House Approved No: WH44CV, Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No: 339331, Pin Code No: 55674 and a Certificate of Merit Payment No. 103. It’s definitely mine – I recognize the numbers!

It’s official

To show that the payment is genuine, the letter quotes: In reference to the meeting held by the UN Ad-Hoc Executive Committee on Grant Award Payment in collaboration with US Government, which comprises of 10  adjudicators Teams, headed by the UN Executive Secretary, Ban Ki Moon, UN President Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, Ben Bernanke, Representative of Office of Citizen Services and Communications, U.S. General Services Administration Director Scott D. Burford , Central Intelligence Agency CIA, represented by the Office of the Public Affairs Mark Mansfield, The representatives of Federal Bureau Investigation FBI, Amy Gutmann, The United Nation US envoy and the International Monetary Fund IMF New York officials, The Interpol President and Secretary Ronald Noble and the Citi Bank Plc, London, United Kingdom.

I have to call

I am advised to call Rev. Kenneth Brown of International Monetary Fund Office in New York today on Phone: 1-718-663-7789 for the immediate release of my fund valued at US$8,300,000.00. I am required to Deal and Communicate only with REV. KENNETH BROWN, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND NEW YORK, the official Monitoring partner.

The Signatories to the Decision to award me the money are:

Susan Rice: United States Mission to the United Nations

Hillary Rodham Clinton:  US Secretary of State

Timothy Geithner: US Secretary of the Treasury

Janet Napolitano: Secretary of Homeland Security

Eric Holder: Department of Justice Attorney General

What they need

1) My full name:

2) Address, city, state and country.

3) Phone, fax and mobile

4) Company name (if any) position and address

5) Bank details, bank names, account no, routing no, swift code, bank address.

6) Profession, age and marital status

7) Copy of my int’l passport/drivers license.

The scam

Of course the temptation to call one of the numbers listed at the bottom of the letter is almost overwhelming. What if, you think, the letter is only 10 percent honest? Maybe I can yell at someone and squeeze a couple of thousand out of him; after all, they started it! I wonder how many responses they actually get and if they raise any money at all. But if you send out a million and the hit rate is only one percent?

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