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This man has already received money from me (COT ) telling me that this money will be in my account 24 hour after COT was received. He is now asking money for the IMF for Forex and he is telling me that it is manatory that I pay the IMF. He states that I should send the money to the person mentioned in email copied below:-
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Attention :..

Good day to you today. received approval from United Nations organizations fund regulation, as received and gave immediate instructions for determining compliance with the approved transfer of funds have been directed to the office referring the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its filling remit form Authority (X15).
According to this mandate of the instruction as indicated in the note issued and received today 14 october 2009, the International Monetary regulation, have been instructed to immediately contact you to make a payment of $ 1, 550, USD, and that is the only way that can transfer the funds
You are mandated therefore to follow this directive by commencing immediate payment of this FOREX charge(s), so that the Foreign Exchange department of this office can commence immediate conversion of your total entitlement as directed by the EU, UN & UK recipient/monitoring authority.
please try your best and make up the payment befor the end of todays work thank you for your understanding..


SENDER:
Name:
Surname (Last Name):
Address / Country:
AMOUNT TO BE SENT: .. $ 1, 550.00 USD
MTCN;

RECEIVER:
Name: David Orobas.
Address / Country: Abuja, Nigeria.


Yours Sincerely,
Phillipe Johnson
Call line: Tel: 234 705 668 8178

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