Monday, January 30, 2012

woohoo, I'm a millionaire!

Ok, maybe not...yet another scam circulating the net:
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 HSBC BANK USA N.A, a subsidiary of the Federal Reserve Bank of America to disburse your due wining/inheritance and contract payment valued at Ten Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US10.3M) in your favor via their branch in New York.

I have received all of the vital payment numbers, I am qualified to receive and confirm payment of my funds 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 First quarter of year 2012. With that being done, you are required to urgently contact the HSBC USA N.A. in New York through their International Funds Release Supervisor:

Contact Person: Sir Nelson Haggin.
(Head, Funds Release Supervisor)
Email: nelsonhaggin17@skymail.mn

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 the following information before the HSBC 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) Full Name;
2) Full Address;
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;
8) ABA/Routing Number;
10) Swift or Sort Code/IBAN

Thank you for your anticipated co-operation.

TREAT AS URGENT.

MS. MARIE CUMMINGS
DIRECTOR OF FUNDS CLEARANCE UNIT.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
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Came from the address Federal Reserve Bank of America <Federalreserve77@aol.com>.  Seriously?  The federal reserve is hurting so bad that they had to farm out their email servers to AOL? 

Man, these people are just idiots.