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The UK’s Economics & Finance Ministry
HM Treasury's Correspondence and Enquiry Unit
From The Office of Rt Hon George Osborne MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer
HM Treasury
Horse Guards Road
London SW1A 2HQ
Tel: +44-077 0003 6878
Fax: +44-020 7270 4861

Friday, September 17, 2010

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INTERNATIONAL RESOLUTION ON UNPAID FUND PAYMENT (FILE CODE - UK/IMF/7890/121).

HM Treasury, in full Her Majesty's Treasury, informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing the British government's public finance policy and economic policy. The Treasury maintains the Combined Online Information System (COINS) containing a detailed analysis of departmental spending under thousands of category headings.

We have taken time to review your online email communication messages on your unsuccessful transactions with most European banks and other foreign banks in Africa. We wish to let you know that we have communicated with most of these foreign banks that withheld most international payments to individual accounts so as to find out why these funds were withheld, the source of the funds and a final solution to this problem. Although you are reading from us for the first time, we have been working very hard on this issue and making progress on our research on why international banks has failed to completely credit funds to international owners/beneficiaries account.

Conclusively, we discovered that most of these withheld and/or unpaid funds being remitted to individual accounts abroad originated from Lottery Organizations, international trading companies awarded contract funds and deceased personals.

Such transfer suspension was placed on these funds because majority of these international fund remittance/transfer of over the total sum of $500,000 and above to private European/Non European residence accounts abroad, usually carried out by foreign Banks, Private or Commercial Courier Companies were never properly recorded by the paying institution for future file reference/assessment by the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Services Authorities.

In joint alliance with the HM Revenue & Customs, the European Financial Service Commission & the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to resolve this issue, we wish to let you know that we have been approved to release only the total sum of Five Million Pounds (£5,000,000.00 GBP) from the HM Treasury to enable you start up your own business.

Through the assistance of the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) to investigate and release suspended, withheld and/or unpaid Inheritance/Award Winning/Contract funds to its beneficiaries account abroad, we were able to gain an approval authorization letter from Her Majesty's Courts Service which stated that these funds will be released by these European banks and other foreign banks to its beneficiary's account on proper confirmation of its claim.

In response to this court decision, we got the Legislature to apply backward in time so that you can use the violation of the existing law to get your funds back.

You need to apply for your fund payment by sending us your personal information below along with a scanned copy of your international passport or drivers license so that we will forward it for verification and payment.

PERSONAL DETAILS; ANSWERS;
1. Your Full Name, Nationality & Current Location.
2. Your Age & Current Occupation.
3. Your Phone & Fax Number.
4. Your ID Number (or Attach Identification Documents).


By the virtue of the provision of the law which confer on us powers to advocate, adjudicate suspend and authorize an immediate transfer of your funds internationally, we hereby state emphatically and without prejudice that should there be any information that may succeed your application for fund release that are currently deposited in most European banks and other foreign banks in Asia and in Africa, please do not hesitate to provide us the information so that we will know how to help you receive your funds.

Important Notice: Your inability to make this clarification for fund transfer with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will continue to suspend your chances of receiving any international payment directed to your local bank account from any foreign bank until this clarification is made.

Failure to properly apply for the funds release for transfer will nullify your chances of receiving this funds, and this funds will be confiscated and made to be forfeited under the Money Laundering and Other Financial Crime Prohibition Act of 2003.

Also note that due to my position as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Second Lord of the Treasury — Rt Hon George Osborne MP (Conservative), I may not always be available to answer any of your calls because I am not always in my office due to the states financial matters but you could direct your questions about this information to this telephone number +44-(77) 0003 6878 for assistance, especially if you have any issue to discuss regarding your funds or kindly email us and we will always get back to you as soon as possible.

Email: ( Click here to eMail ) (link to an email address)

Regards,
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Rt Hon George Osborne MP (Conservative)
HM Treasury's Correspondence and Enquiry Unit.
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Questions about this information should be directed to
Chancellor of the Exchequer. Telephone: +44-77 0003 6878. or | By eMail |

Oh... it it says I emailed them at some point... which I did not.

Any clue?

You need to apply for your fund payment by sending us your personal information below along with a scanned copy of your international passport or drivers license so that we will forward it for verification and payment.

PERSONAL DETAILS; ANSWERS;
1. Your Full Name, Nationality & Current Location.
2. Your Age & Current Occupation.
3. Your Phone & Fax Number.
4. Your ID Number (or Attach Identification Documents).

The only reason I was asking was this is the first SPAM I had that involved a part of the world that I have been recently dealing with.

If I hadn't just opened an account at Click and Buy (in London) for FFXIV, AND hadn't just dealt with a guy in Australia on ebay, in which I refunded some of his shipping cost back to him, I wouldn't have even looked twice at the email.

Speaking of spam, I had an email the other day from a friend (this email had her name in title which is what threw me off), saying that she was stuck in Nigeria (or any foreign country, but Nigeria seems to always work well), and that she needed money sent to her for X reasons.

I would have called her but the thing that made it stand out as spam was that it was still using her married name, and she's been divorced for almost a year. It was freaky though.