Scam Alert from The South African Reserve Bank

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The South African Reserve Bank
370 Helen Joseph Street Pretoria 0002

CLARIFICATION FOR PAYMENT

Attention: Fund Beneficiary.

This is to notify you about your pending inheritance fund, we have been mandated by President of Republic of South Africa under the new Government of Jacob Zuma.  To make sure all our debtors received their long-awaited fund.

Which has been gazetted to be released through your representative Mr.  John T. Kehoe, who visited our office last week with a letter of authorization, claiming to be your true representative.

And we have sent you a notification severally to inform you about this inheritance pending fund, which have been with our bank for some period. Mr. John T. Kehoe, stated that your online account should be terminated while the fund should be wired directly into his account in the United State of America.

Here are the provided Banking Details

Bank account with Bank of America,
AC Nr.: # 12908576457
Routing Number# 121000358

Please, do reconfirm to this office, as a matter of urgency if this Mr. John T. Kehoe is truly your representative. Moreover, our office has asked Mr. John T. Kehoe to return to this Bank within 48hours to enable us to have a confirmation from you. We shall proceed to issue the entire payments details to the said Mr. John T. Kehoe, if we do not hear from you within the next seven working days from today.

We are sorry to have delayed your instruction in giving out this fund to Mr. John T. Kehoe.

Please, if you have not instructed Mr. John T. Kehoe for the claim of this fund, you are advised to urgently contact Mr. Francois E. Groepe on this email address  reserve.sa1@safrica.com for the confirmation and the processing of the release of this payment into your account.

Your confirmation to the above will be appreciated.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours Faithfully
Lesetja Kganyago

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