Dear Sir/Madam,
I received a mail recently stating that i have won 250,000.00 GBP. And the draft is with RBI. They have asked for conversion charges and fund release charges. Can someone help me with the authenticity of the message. I have pasted the mail received below.
Thank you.
Ashwath.
From: Reserve Bank of India <[protected]@rbi-online.net>
Date: Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Subject: FROM RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
To: [protected]@gmail.com
ATTN- ASHWATH KUMAR
This is to notify you that your draft of 250,000.00 pounds.( two hunderd
and fifty thousand pounds)is due to ractificaton and clearance from the
reserve bank of india. in regards to this, the formalities that are required
to enable the transfer to take place is the clearifaication of your personal
and bank account details which you have to send to us and then the payment
of the transfer and converstion fee which will be paid into our brokers
account. The payment of the charges should be made before the transfer can
take place.
MAHESH KULKARNI
Chief General Manager-in-Charge
Foreign Exchange Department
Reserve Bank of India
Central Office
11th Floor, Central Office Building
Shahid Bhagat Singh Road
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