WACHOVIA BANK AL, 700 S. McKENEIE ST. Foley, Al
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On August 26, 2011, I received the below email from "The Federal Reserve Bank of New York":


"Federal Reserve Bank of America
33 Liberty Street,
New York, NY 10045.

Our Ref: FRB-75BFNYUS2011

Attention Honorable Beneficiary

Payment Release Instruction From Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Acting on our capacity as the international correspondent bank to the International Monetary Fund Organization, this is to officially notify you that we have received a confirmation advice from the International Monetary Funds External Auditors Committee, World Bank, United Nations Organization and the Federal Reserve Bank of America respectively via International Payment Voucher Number: IMF/FRBWDC/BOA-93WB82UN567-G requesting our bank to direct the WACHOVIA BANK USA A.L, a subsidiary of the Federal Reserve Bank of America to disburse your due wining/inheritance and contract payment valued at Seven Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US7.3M) in your favor via their branch in Alabama.

In consideration of the above, you have been issued with this Exclusive Reference Identification Number (IMF/FRB-NY/9USXX10751/09), Vide Transaction No.: WHA/EUR/202 and Transfer Allocation No.: FRB/X44/701LN/NYC/US, Password: 339331, Pin Code: 78569, Certificate of Merit No: 104, Release Code No: 0876; Immediate WACHOVIA BANK Telex Confirmation No: -222568; Secret Code: XXTN014. Having received these vital payment numbers, you are instantly qualified to receive and confirm your payment within the next 72hrs. as necessary clearance has been granted from the International Monetary Funds External Auditors to release the funds to you with immediate effect.

In view of this directive received from the International Monetary Funds (IMF), we have on our own part verified your payment file as directed to us, and your name is next on the list of outstanding fund beneficiaries to receive their payment at this First quarter of year 2011. With that being done, you are required to urgently contact the WACHOVIA BANK USA AL in ALABAMA through their International Funds Release Supervisor:

Contact Person: PAUL FORSMAN.
(Head, Funds Release Supervisor)
Email:([email protected])

And reconfirm your international payment voucher number and your reference identification number respectively before that office with a view to the final remittance approval and subsequent crediting of your bank account to the tune of funds as stated herein.

We wish to inform you of the need for you to also re-confirm the following information before the WACHOVIA BANK USA .A.L. in ALABAMA to enable the officer in-charge to proceed with the preliminary arrangements that will enhance the immediate release of your funds. Owing to security reasons, be clearly informed that we will not respond to any phone calls/general inquiries placed to our bank with regards to the remittance of your funds by beneficiaries as we are barred from doing so, you are therefore advised to communicate only with the accredited officer for further remittance advice.

1) Full Name:
2) Full Address;
3) Your contact telephone and fax number ;
4) Your Age: and Profession:
5) Copy of any valid form of your Identification;
6) Your Bank name;

Re: TRANSFER FROM FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK




From: WACHOVIA BANK <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 1:00 PM
Subject: TRANSFER FROM FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK

WACHOVIA BANK AL
700 S. McKENEIE ST.Foley, Al
PHONE =(317) 641 6511

ATTN: Alphonso M. Kawah

FUNDS UPDATE

I hereby acknowledge receipt of your e-mail with the provided details which is in reference to the Payment Release Order from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York instructing our Bank to release the sum of US$7.3M from their Escrow Account with us into your designated bank account. Pursuant to the Irrevocable Authorization from the United States Financial Stability and Recovery Team with an exclusive Authority to remit the total sum of US$7.3M into your submitted bank wiring coordinates, I am obliged to inform you that we have commenced the transfer as instructed by Swift Transfer to your bank account, congratulations.

Consequently, your fund left our bank today and had been scheduled to hit your bank account within the next 24 banking hours. However, prior to crediting your bank account, you are required to make a payment of $360.00 being fee for the issuance of the Fed. Reference Tracking Number. So you are required to make this payment immediately and be assured that your bank account will get credit as scheduled. Be aware that you have to apply urgency on this payment as you have only 24 hours to fulfill this requirement so that the US$7.3M will domicile into your bank account.

Attached herein is the Transfer Confirmation Slip together with the Approval Document from the United States Financial Stability and Recovery Team which $360.00 to enable us issue out your Fed. Reference Tracking Number which will pave way for final crediting of the funds into your bank account.

In the light of the above, be advised to send this fee through Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram as soon as possible with the wiring instructions below. Immediately you send out the money, ensure to email the MTCN to me for proper confirmation and subsequent action. You need to apply urgency on this payment so that your funds can domicile in your bank account as scheduled.

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RECEIVER: NAME:PAUL FORSMAN
ADDRESS: ALABAMA, USA
AMOUNT: $360.00 ONLY
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Note that we shall send to you by Registered Mail all necessary documents legitimizing this payment to enable you present same to your bank for final clearance and crediting of your bank account. Note also that you are not required to take the transfer slip to your bank yet until you get a confirmation advice from us since the fund is not yet credited into your bank account until the above fee is paid.

We will credit the fund into the given account below, Please reconfirm and let us know;

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Thanks in anticipation of your understanding and co-operation.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Forsman
Funds Release Supervisor
WACB A.L.
Direct Office Line:) =(317) 641 6511 8:am to 10 pm everyday (except on Holidays).

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Registered in New York State of the United States of America. Registered office: 335, Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Authorized and regulated by the FDIC.

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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:21:50 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: TRANSFER FROM FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]

Attn: Mr. Paul Forsman
Wachovia Bank, AL

Further to your conversation on Saturday, August 27 on the status of payment of your bank transfer fee for the transfer of my funds to the Bank of America in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I am sending the Western Union payment information to you as you had suggested. Even though I gave you the MTCN from the Western Union on Saturday, which fees you subsequently acknowledged receiving, I am sending the Western Union transfer papers attached, as well as the MTCN to have a paper trail or record of the transaction among the stakeholders in this transaction

RECEIVER' NAME: Paul Forsman
ADDRESS: LbM, USA
AMOUNT: US $360
W. UNION MTCN # 797 972 1609

You will please find attached evidence of the remittance for the transfer from the Western Union.

I hope the transfer is now in progress so that my bank will acknowledge receipt of the remittance, and credit my account accordingly.

Thank you for your expeditious services in the premises.

Sincerely yours,
Alphonso M. Kawah"






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Based upon this instruction from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, I complied and got in touch with Mr. Paul Forsman concerning a payment which the Fed said I was entitled and that I should contact the Wachovia Bank Atlanta, through Mr. Paul Forsman, the Contact Person at the Bank. Following my contact with Mr. Paul Forsman, this is what he told me in an email to do before the alleged funds can be transferred to me:

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ATTN: Alphonso M. Kawah


FUNDS UPDATE

I hereby acknowledge receipt of your e-mail with the provided details which is in reference to the Payment Release Order from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York instructing our Bank to release the sum of US$7.3M from their Escrow Account with us into your designated bank account. Pursuant to the Irrevocable Authorization from the United States Financial Stability and Recovery Team with an exclusive Authority to remit the total sum of US$7.3M into your submitted bank wiring coordinates, I am obliged to inform you that we have commenced the transfer as instructed by Swift Transfer to your bank account, congratulations.

Consequently, your fund left our bank today and had been scheduled to hit your bank account within the next 24 banking hours. However, prior to crediting your bank account, you are required to make a payment of $360.00 being fee for the issuance of the Fed. Reference Tracking Number. So you are required to make this payment immediately and be assured that your bank account will get credit as scheduled. Be aware that you have to apply urgency on this payment as you have only 24 hours to fulfill this requirement so that the US$7.3M will domicile into your bank account.

Attached herein is the Transfer Confirmation Slip together with the Approval Document from the United States Financial Stability and Recovery Team which $360.00 to enable us issue out your Fed. Reference Tracking Number which will pave way for final crediting of the funds into your bank account.

In the light of the above, be advised to send this fee through Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram as soon as possible with the wiring instructions below. Immediately you send out the money, ensure to email the MTCN to me for proper confirmation and subsequent action. You need to apply urgency on this payment so that your funds can domicile in your bank account as scheduled.

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RECEIVER: NAME:PAUL FORSMAN
ADDRESS: ALABAMA, USA
AMOUNT: $360.00 ONLY
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Note that we shall send to you by Registered Mail all necessary documents legitimizing this payment to enable you present same to your bank for final clearance and crediting of your bank account. Note also that you are not required to take the transfer slip to your bank yet until you get a confirmation advice from us since the fund is not yet credited into your bank account until the above fee is paid.

We will credit the fund into the given account below, Please reconfirm and let us know;

Thanks in anticipation of your understanding and co-operation.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Forsman
Funds Release Supervisor
WACB A.L.
Direct Office Line:) =(317) 641 6511 8:am to 10 pm everyday (except on Holidays).

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Registered in New York State of the United States of America. Registered office: 335, Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Authorized and regulated by the FDIC. "

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Upon my payment of the US $360 plus cost of sending this fee which amounted to $28.00, Mr. Paul Forsman, having signed for the $360 from the Western Union System and, instead of making the transfer, sent me this email for an additional payment of $1,500 for transfer charges:

"RE: TRANSFER FROM FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK 1

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WACHOVIA BANK AL
700 S. McKENEIE ST.Foley, Al
PHONE =(317) 641 6511

ATTN: Alphonso M. Kawah

FUNDS UPDATE

THE FUND HAS BEEN MAPPED ON PAYMENT SLIP AND THE HEAD OFFICE ADVISED THAT YOU WILL PAY A PROCESSING FEE OF $1500 FOR THE TRANSFER TO BE POSSIBLE TODAY. ATTACHED HERE IS A COPY OF THE WIRE TRANSFER SLIP WHICH IS STILL PENDING UNTIL THE $1500 PROCESSING CHARGE IS PAID. PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THIS EMAIL WITH UNDERSTANDING RELEASING THAT THE AMOUNT INVOLVED IS HUGE .

I WILL ALSO ADVISE YOU TO GO THROUGH THE TRANSFER SLIP TO SEE IF THERE IS A MISTAKE ON IT. IF EVERYTHING IS CORRECT THEN GO AHEAD AND SEND THE $1500 SO THAT IT WILL BE DONE.

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RECEIVER: NAME:PAUL FORSMAN
ADDRESS: ALABAMA, USA
AMOUNT: $1500 ONLY
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Thanks in anticipation of your understanding and co-operation.

Yours sincerely,
Paul Forsman
Funds Release Supervisor
WACB A.L.
Direct Office Line:) =(317) 641 6511 8:am to 10 pm everyday (except on Holidays)."

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Registered in New York State of the United States of America. Registered office: 335, Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Authorized and regulated by the FDIC.

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I then emailed Mr. Paul Forsman informing him that I do not have any other money except for the $360 already sent to him. I then said he should please return the $360 I had sent to him plus $28.00 Sending fee, giving a total of money expended by me to $388.00 and let us forget about the transfer. This is what he wrote to me:


RE: TRANSFER FROM FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK

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WACHOVIA BANK AL
700 S. McKENEIE ST.Foley, Al
PHONE =(317) 641 6511

ATTN: Alphonso M. Kawah

FUNDS UPDATE

THIS BUSINESS IS FOR REAL AND IF YOU WANT TO INVOLVE THE AUTHORITY THERE IS NO PROBLEM,, GO AHEAD, THE $7.3M IS HUGE THAT IS THE REASON WHY YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW DUE PROCESS. IF YOU CANNOT BE ABLE TO RAISE THE $1500 PROCESSING FEE JUST LET ME KNOW HOW MUCH YOU CAN RAISE SO THAT I WILL KNOW HOW TO HELP YOU.

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RECEIVER: NAME:PAUL FORSMAN
ADDRESS: ALABAMA, USA
AMOUNT: $1500 ONLY
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Thanks in anticipation of your understanding and co-operation.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Forsman
Funds Release Supervisor
WACB A.L.
Direct Office Line:) =(317) 641 6511 8:am to 10 pm everyday (except on Holidays)."

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Registered in New York State of the United States of America. Registered office: 335, Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Authorized and regulated by the FDIC. "

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When I told him that I could not raise any more funds because of my lack of confidence in the process, and that he should return my funds already paid to him, this is what he said:


"RE: TRANSFER FROM FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK

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WACHOVIA BANK AL
700 S. McKENEIE ST.Foley, Al
PHONE =(317) 641 6511

ATTN: Alphonso M. Kawah

FUNDS UPDATE

YOU ARE SOUNDING TOO HARD ON YOURSELF, YOU NEED TO MAKE MOVE AND SEE HOW MUCH YOU CAN RAISE,, BUT YOU REFUSED, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO, THE $360 YOU SEND HAVE BEEN USED TO PAY FOR THE TRANSFER FEE AND MY BANK CANNOT RETURN IT.

HOW MUCH CAN YOU RAISE OUT OF THE $1500??,

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RECEIVER: NAME:PAUL FORSMAN
ADDRESS: ALABAMA, USA
AMOUNT: $1500 ONLY
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Thanks in anticipation of your understanding and co-operation.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Forsman
Funds Release Supervisor
WACB A.L.
Direct Office Line:) =(317) 641 6511 8:am to 10 pm everyday (except on Holidays)."

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Registered in New York State of the United States of America. Registered office: 335, Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Authorized and regulated by the FDIC.

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The last thing I did was to write an email to the Federal Reserve Bank of New, the institution that first instructed me to contact Mr. Forsman for the transfer of the $7.3 million US dollars, telling them the following:

"Sirs, I have quoted most of the vital documents from Wachovia Bank Alabama to clearly trace the deceptive attitude of Mr. Paul Forsman in extorting money from me on the pretext that he would be transferring funds approved by the world bodies as indicated in the email requesting me to contact Mr. Paul Forsman for the transfer. I refuse to accept the attitude of impunity being exhibited by Mr. Forsman, insinuating that he is supported by all the International Financial Institutions in his act of extortion against me. I am therefore reverting back to, in the first place, you who said that I should contact Mr. Forsman, hoping that I should receive redress in this matter because I refuse to accept anything contrary to what is being assumed in so many words.

Please therefore let Mr. Forsman return my $388.00 expended thus far.

I await your urgent response in the premises, with a view of either deducting the $1,500 from the principal amount or returning my $388 expended thus far on this abortive transfer.

Sincerely yours,
Alphonso M. Kawah"

I have still not heard from them on my request to have Mr. Paul Forsman reimburse my $388.00 US dollars.