Victim Location 45458
Type of a scam Phishing
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From the Desk Of Abubakar Suleiman
Sterling Bank plc
We apologize for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences we might put you through, while we were having some minor problems with our payment system which in all case not meeting up with beneficiary payment information, we apologise once again.
From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with the Government of your name was discovered as next on the list out of the 11 outstanding contractors who have not yet received their payments during the 3 years tenure of the previous administration in office please bear with us for making this initial contact through email. Meanwhile, a man came to this bank a few days ago with a letter claiming to be your true representative and accepted to comply with wire/transfer charges on your behalf to have the fund delivered to him. Here is his information’s below.
Name: Mr. Richard Hopkins
Bank name: Citibank , New York , USA .
Account Number: 9348449047
Routing number: 322271627
Swift code#:WMSBUS66
Address: 399 Park Avenue New York, NY 10043
Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following
1. Account Name:
2. Bank account number:
3. Route number:
4. Swift code:
5. Bank name:
6. Bank address
7. Your contact Address:
8. Your telephone number
As soon as the Payment information is received, your funds will be wired to your bank account directly from Sterling Bank plc USA. We shall proceed to issue all payments details to the said Mr. Richard Hopkins if we do not hear from you within the next three working days from today. We are sorry for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of your fund must have caused you.
Thanks for your understanding.
Sincerely,
Mr. Abubakar Suleiman
Director Sterling Bank plc