A Scam Email with the Subject
"CONTACT WESTERN UNION FOR YOUR PAYMENT"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:47:31 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
ANN WEBSTER <anne.webster@btinternet.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
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Base on the instruction passed to this western union department from the office of the Government of the centre Bank regarding the promo award winning to our best customers
of the year, Are you ready to pick up this USD$5000.00 sent today. We have concluded to effect your payment through western union USD$5000.00 daily until the sum of
USD$950.000.00 is completely transferred.So contact the Western union Agent to pick up this USD$5000 now with your full information such as:
Your Name: ... Your Country: .... Your Phone Number:... And contact the agent with this information bellow:
you are to pay our transfer fee of $85 only, because we have make all the necessary arrangement to set free your fund total USD$950,000.00 to you, once you have comply with us to pay the USD$85 to the below information:
1) Receiver Name: Ameka Alexander. E 2) Country.....:Benin Republic 3) Text Question......what color? 4) Text Answer.....Yellow. 5) MTCN........ 6) Sender Name:... 7) Sender Country:...
As soon as we have the payment slip of the USD$85 then we will proceed by realizing your first payment of USD$5000.
