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Subject: Protect Your Funds
Date: 05 September 2012
Attn: Beneficiary.
We have been informed to re-direct your "UNCLAIMED LOTTERY PAYMENT" to this account below:
Bank Name: Standard Bank, South Africa
Name: F.M. Odendaal
A/C#: 280632746
Branch Code: 050820
Swift Code: SBZAZAJJ
This instruction was after a detailed email from your representative, F.M.Odendaal who has presented the above bank details today informing THIS OFFICE: DEBT RECONCILIATION COMMITTEE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OVERSEA CREDIT COMMISSION that you have instructed further transfer of your "UNCLAIMED LOTTERY PAYMENT" to the above account.
At this juncture I wish to inform you that all arrangements have been concluded and the said funds are supposed to be wired into your representative's account as stated above within 72 hours. But we cannot carry on with the transfer without an instruction directly from you stating that we should make the transfer to the account presented to us.
Please advise immediately so that an immediate action will take place.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Mercy Adams.
For Debt Reconciliations Committee