FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE

Here we go again with the free money from Benin. I mean, what are we waiting for? It's there for the taking! My favorite thing about this one is that they used a Yahoo Calendar Event Invitation to send the request to over 35 recipients. The original e-mail even had the *.ics file so we could put it on our schedule.

Wouldn't want to miss this important date...

Of course this is a scam. People at a "Federal Ministry of Finance" don't use Yahoo accounts. In fact, anyone with a business or legitimate organization shouldn't use Yahoo mail, it is the most polluted "free" mail service out there.

Delete the e-mail, don't communicate with them. Move on with your day!

LINK: Warning from the Benin Embassy

Spam email text;

From: Usa Johnson <usajohnson301@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:58 PM
Subject: Invitation: FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE
To:

DEC
05 "FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE"
When Thursday, 05 December 2013
08:30 PM to 09:30 PM
(GMT) Greenwich Mean Time - Dublin / Edinburgh / Lisbon / London

Where

Message FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE NATIONAL HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY COMPLEX SENATE HOUSE - UPPER CHAMBERS WUSE DISTRICT, COTONOU BENIN Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB I have to inform you again that we are not playing over this matter that we have sent to you several times, I know my reason for the continuous sending of this notification to you, the fact is that you can't seem to trust any one again over this payment For what you have been in cantered in many months ago, but I want you to be assured that you will received your funds THROUGH THE HELP OF THIS OFFICE.I cannot scam you for $40. The bank processing of your payment which is BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A), requested the processing fee of $40 .The requested $40 is clearly written to you before, I did not invent the bill to defraud you of $40 it is an official bank payment processing fee, and the good part of this is that you will never ever be disturbed again over any kind of payment. This is final and the forms from there becomes effective once we submit your payment application processing fee and pay the form fee of $39 I don't want you to loose this fund this time because you may never get another such good opportunity, the federal government is keen and very determined to pay your overdue debts, this is not a fluke, I would not want you to loose this fund out of ignorance, I will send you all the documents as soon as bank payment processing fee is paid, you have to trust me, you will get your fund, find a way to get $40 you will not loose it, instead it will bring your financial breakthrough, find the money and send it to our bursary. The reason why am sending you this email is because i want you to receive your USD$800,000.00 immediately, we are trying to round up for this payment program. Here Is the Payment Information through Western Union money transfer or Money Gram money transfer, finally my advice to you is not to abandon this transaction because of the requirement of ($40) Receivers Name:EMMANUEL UDALOR Address: COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC Test Question: WHEN Answer: NOW MTCN________________ Send all the details of the MTCN direct to this email.Furthermore I am waiting for the payment details in your next urgent reply Yours in service Mrs. Mary Maduome

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