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Mar 17, 2024 10:34:35   #
Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas
 
Bank of America Corporate Center
Address: 100 North Tryon Street, Charlotte,
North Carolina, 28202 U.S.
Payment Value: US$36,500.000.00 USD
RE/NO: 002-BOA/0047/2024
Founded: 1928.

Attn: Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Alastair Borthwick, the Chief Financial Officer for Bank of America. This is to inform you about your scammed victim compensation funds valued $36.5 Million Dollars that has been brought here in Bank of America from United Nations {UN} which is to be transfer into your bank account with immediate effect, But one Mr. Steven Craig from California USA sent an urgent email to my office stating that you are DEAD and you have given him Power of Attorney to claim your scammed victim compensation fund valued $36.5 Million Dollars on your behalf, He stated you died on a car accident last week, I urge you to get back to me today if you are not really dead as he said, He has been calling us regarding your scammed victim compensation funds, but we cannot proceed with him until we confirmed this by not hearing from you within 24 hours. Be advised that we have made all arrangements for you to receive your compensation funds valued $36.5 Million without any further delay. You are hereby informed that your funds will be release to you once you get back me with your details,

I wish to inform you now that the square peg is now in square hole and your payment is being processed and will be released to you as soon as you respond to this letter. Note that from the record in my file, your scammed victim compensation funds is $36,500.000.00 Million Dollars. You are advised to kindly reply this email with the below details enclosed to help us process your payment,

Your Full Name: _____________
Your Contact House Address: _____
Name of City of Residence: _________
Country: _____________
Direct Telephone Number: ______
Working Identity /Passport: ________
AGE: _______________
OCCUPATION: ___________

Please do provide the above information accurately, because this office cannot afford to be held liable for any wrong transfer of funds or liability of funds credited into an unknown account. As soon as the above mentioned details are received, your compensation funds will be released to you immediately. You are advised to re-confirm to us your receiving bank account details, where you want your fund to be remitted.

We await your swift response and also advise that if our directives are followed carefully, you should have your fund in your account within 24 hours and you can also open an account with us to enable your fund to be credited to your account and the ATM attached to your account would be sent to you.

Thank you,

Mr. Alastair Borthwick |Chief Financial Officer | Bank Of America Office North Carolina®
.................................................................................
NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the restrictions implemented by your Internet Service Provider, we (Bank of America) urge you to treat it genuinely.

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Mar 17, 2024 10:37:16   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
That's a good one!

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Mar 17, 2024 10:42:02   #
David Martin Loc: Cary, NC
 
One Mr. Steve Craig from California USA must have amazing inside information about you and Bank of America Office North Carolina®.

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Mar 17, 2024 10:45:59   #
Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas
 
David Martin wrote:
One Mr. Steve Craig from California USA must have amazing inside information about you and Bank of America Office North Carolina®.

Yeah, and I see they have my name correct too - “Beneficiary" - at least they spelled it right

What’s interesting is I have never had a BoA account

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Mar 17, 2024 11:37:25   #
dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone
 
Shellback wrote:
What’s interesting is I have never had a BoA account

What a humongonousstrocity encouragement it must be to know you now can have one......your very own BoA account.....within 24 hours!!!

You can open it with.....(US$36,500.000.00USD) !!!
....and get this....You don't have to give them ANY of your own money !!!

Now that's customer service, promised by the CFO from the Bank of America from United Nations{UN} !!!

(What brand of photo gear are you going to buy right away out of that US$36,500.000.00 ?!?! )

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Mar 17, 2024 11:40:01   #
Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas
 
dustie wrote:
What a humongonousstrocity encouragement it must be to know you now can have one......your very own BoA account.....within 24 hours!!!

You can open it with.....(US$36,500.000.00USD) !!!
....and get this....You don't have to give them ANY of your own money !!!

Now that's customer service, promised by the CFO from the Bank of America from United Nations{UN} !!!

(What brand of photo gear are you going to buy right away out of that US$36,500.000.00 ?!?! )
What a humongonousstrocity encouragement it must b... (show quote)



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Mar 17, 2024 12:27:49   #
Toby
 
Wonder why scammers don't offer smaller amounts such as $50-100. I'll bet they would get a lot more buyers than when they advertise a ridiculous amount like $1 mill +

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Mar 17, 2024 13:26:57   #
ecblackiii Loc: Maryland
 
Shellback wrote:
Bank of America Corporate Center
Address: 100 North Tryon Street, Charlotte,
North Carolina, 28202 U.S.
Payment Value: US$36,500.000.00 USD
RE/NO: 002-BOA/0047/2024
Founded: 1928.

Attn: Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Alastair Borthwick, the Chief Financial Officer for Bank of America. This is to inform you about your scammed victim compensation funds valued $36.5 Million Dollars that has been brought here in Bank of America from United Nations {UN} which is to be transfer into your bank account with immediate effect, But one Mr. Steven Craig from California USA sent an urgent email to my office stating that you are DEAD and you have given him Power of Attorney to claim your scammed victim compensation fund valued $36.5 Million Dollars on your behalf, He stated you died on a car accident last week, I urge you to get back to me today if you are not really dead as he said, He has been calling us regarding your scammed victim compensation funds, but we cannot proceed with him until we confirmed this by not hearing from you within 24 hours. Be advised that we have made all arrangements for you to receive your compensation funds valued $36.5 Million without any further delay. You are hereby informed that your funds will be release to you once you get back me with your details,

I wish to inform you now that the square peg is now in square hole and your payment is being processed and will be released to you as soon as you respond to this letter. Note that from the record in my file, your scammed victim compensation funds is $36,500.000.00 Million Dollars. You are advised to kindly reply this email with the below details enclosed to help us process your payment,

Your Full Name: _____________
Your Contact House Address: _____
Name of City of Residence: _________
Country: _____________
Direct Telephone Number: ______
Working Identity /Passport: ________
AGE: _______________
OCCUPATION: ___________

Please do provide the above information accurately, because this office cannot afford to be held liable for any wrong transfer of funds or liability of funds credited into an unknown account. As soon as the above mentioned details are received, your compensation funds will be released to you immediately. You are advised to re-confirm to us your receiving bank account details, where you want your fund to be remitted.

We await your swift response and also advise that if our directives are followed carefully, you should have your fund in your account within 24 hours and you can also open an account with us to enable your fund to be credited to your account and the ATM attached to your account would be sent to you.

Thank you,

Mr. Alastair Borthwick |Chief Financial Officer | Bank Of America Office North Carolina®
.................................................................................
NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the restrictions implemented by your Internet Service Provider, we (Bank of America) urge you to treat it genuinely.
Bank of America Corporate Center br Address: 100 N... (show quote)


Give the faker credit for doing some homework. He got the corporate headquarters address and name of the CFO correct. But the year of the bank's founding is wrong. And he made some grammatical errors in the text along with the mistake of writing the word "millions" following the numerical expression of the total value.

They are getting smarter, just not smart enough!

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Mar 17, 2024 13:31:59   #
ecblackiii Loc: Maryland
 
Shellback wrote:
Bank of America Corporate Center
Address: 100 North Tryon Street, Charlotte,
North Carolina, 28202 U.S.
Payment Value: US$36,500.000.00 USD
RE/NO: 002-BOA/0047/2024
Founded: 1928.

Attn: Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Alastair Borthwick, the Chief Financial Officer for Bank of America. This is to inform you about your scammed victim compensation funds valued $36.5 Million Dollars that has been brought here in Bank of America from United Nations {UN} which is to be transfer into your bank account with immediate effect, But one Mr. Steven Craig from California USA sent an urgent email to my office stating that you are DEAD and you have given him Power of Attorney to claim your scammed victim compensation fund valued $36.5 Million Dollars on your behalf, He stated you died on a car accident last week, I urge you to get back to me today if you are not really dead as he said, He has been calling us regarding your scammed victim compensation funds, but we cannot proceed with him until we confirmed this by not hearing from you within 24 hours. Be advised that we have made all arrangements for you to receive your compensation funds valued $36.5 Million without any further delay. You are hereby informed that your funds will be release to you once you get back me with your details,

I wish to inform you now that the square peg is now in square hole and your payment is being processed and will be released to you as soon as you respond to this letter. Note that from the record in my file, your scammed victim compensation funds is $36,500.000.00 Million Dollars. You are advised to kindly reply this email with the below details enclosed to help us process your payment,

Your Full Name: _____________
Your Contact House Address: _____
Name of City of Residence: _________
Country: _____________
Direct Telephone Number: ______
Working Identity /Passport: ________
AGE: _______________
OCCUPATION: ___________

Please do provide the above information accurately, because this office cannot afford to be held liable for any wrong transfer of funds or liability of funds credited into an unknown account. As soon as the above mentioned details are received, your compensation funds will be released to you immediately. You are advised to re-confirm to us your receiving bank account details, where you want your fund to be remitted.

We await your swift response and also advise that if our directives are followed carefully, you should have your fund in your account within 24 hours and you can also open an account with us to enable your fund to be credited to your account and the ATM attached to your account would be sent to you.

Thank you,

Mr. Alastair Borthwick |Chief Financial Officer | Bank Of America Office North Carolina®
.................................................................................
NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the restrictions implemented by your Internet Service Provider, we (Bank of America) urge you to treat it genuinely.
Bank of America Corporate Center br Address: 100 N... (show quote)


Let's give the faker credit, he did some homework and got the bank's headquarters address and name of the CFO correct. But he then made some grammatical errors in the text and made the dumb mistake of writing "million dollars" immediately after writing "$36,000,000.00."

They are getting better, but not good enough to really fool people who graduated from high school.

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Mar 17, 2024 14:23:34   #
goofybruce
 
...and if you look closely at the numeric amount, you are only getting $36,500. The amount is expressed down to "zero" mills. Other than that, makes sense to me.... NOT!!!

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Mar 17, 2024 14:30:58   #
ecblackiii Loc: Maryland
 
goofybruce wrote:
...and if you look closely at the numeric amount, you are only getting $36,500. The amount is expressed down to "zero" mills. Other than that, makes sense to me.... NOT!!!


He made a Freudian slip. The custom in certain foreign countries is to use decimals in the place of commas.

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Mar 17, 2024 15:21:12   #
rwww80a Loc: Hampton, NH
 
I just got one too. I won a grant from the UN Democracy Fund of $50,000 cash delivered to my door, with pictures of cash. All I have to do is contact the agent. Problem, when I looked up the fund it is only for governmental agencies and minimum award is $100K. Something strangggge is goin on here.

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Mar 17, 2024 15:31:52   #
Horseart Loc: Alabama
 
Shellback wrote:
Bank of America Corporate Center
Address: 100 North Tryon Street, Charlotte,
North Carolina, 28202 U.S.
Payment Value: US$36,500.000.00 USD
RE/NO: 002-BOA/0047/2024
Founded: 1928.

Attn: Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Alastair Borthwick, the Chief Financial Officer for Bank of America. This is to inform you about your scammed victim compensation funds valued $36.5 Million Dollars that has been brought here in Bank of America from United Nations {UN} which is to be transfer into your bank account with immediate effect, But one Mr. Steven Craig from California USA sent an urgent email to my office stating that you are DEAD and you have given him Power of Attorney to claim your scammed victim compensation fund valued $36.5 Million Dollars on your behalf, He stated you died on a car accident last week, I urge you to get back to me today if you are not really dead as he said, He has been calling us regarding your scammed victim compensation funds, but we cannot proceed with him until we confirmed this by not hearing from you within 24 hours. Be advised that we have made all arrangements for you to receive your compensation funds valued $36.5 Million without any further delay. You are hereby informed that your funds will be release to you once you get back me with your details,

I wish to inform you now that the square peg is now in square hole and your payment is being processed and will be released to you as soon as you respond to this letter. Note that from the record in my file, your scammed victim compensation funds is $36,500.000.00 Million Dollars. You are advised to kindly reply this email with the below details enclosed to help us process your payment,

Your Full Name: _____________
Your Contact House Address: _____
Name of City of Residence: _________
Country: _____________
Direct Telephone Number: ______
Working Identity /Passport: ________
AGE: _______________
OCCUPATION: ___________

Please do provide the above information accurately, because this office cannot afford to be held liable for any wrong transfer of funds or liability of funds credited into an unknown account. As soon as the above mentioned details are received, your compensation funds will be released to you immediately. You are advised to re-confirm to us your receiving bank account details, where you want your fund to be remitted.

We await your swift response and also advise that if our directives are followed carefully, you should have your fund in your account within 24 hours and you can also open an account with us to enable your fund to be credited to your account and the ATM attached to your account would be sent to you.

Thank you,

Mr. Alastair Borthwick |Chief Financial Officer | Bank Of America Office North Carolina®
.................................................................................
NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the restrictions implemented by your Internet Service Provider, we (Bank of America) urge you to treat it genuinely.
Bank of America Corporate Center br Address: 100 N... (show quote)


And you died ON an accident? Wow. You'd better rush and get this done before they bury you! You're still gonna be friends with all of us hawgs aren't you??? Just say "yes".

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Mar 17, 2024 15:58:22   #
Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas
 
Horseart wrote:
And you died ON an accident? Wow. You'd better rush and get this done before they bury you! You're still gonna be friends with all of us hawgs aren't you??? Just say "yes".



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Mar 17, 2024 16:17:18   #
cahale Loc: San Angelo, TX
 
He's really only an associate CFO. If he's lying about that, he's probably lying about the size of the fund. It's probably more and he's skimming.

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