"Bank of America" Advance-fee Scam Sent by Scammers

Bank of America Advance-fee Scam Sent by Scammers

The fake "Bank of America" email below is an advance-fee scam. Recipients are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it. The fake email is being sent by scammers who are attempting to trick their potential victims into sending them money or personal information. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and one of the most common types of confidence trick. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster requires in order to obtain the large sum.

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A "Bank of America" Advance-Fee Scam

From: Bank of America - baakkoffamericaa1.1@comet.ocn.ne.jp

Date: Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 11:35 PM

Subject: THANKS as we wait to hear from you soon.

Bank Of America.Corporate Office Headquarters.

100 N. San Francisco-Oakland, California 28255 USA.

Our Ref: BOA/IRU/SFE/15.5/WD/011

Working Hours: Monday-Friday

8 a.m.-9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time(EDT)

Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time(EDT)

Hello our dear Beneficialy' how are you doing today?how

A compensatioth $35 million us dollars that were said to belong to you was transferred to our bank corporate headquarters at Charlotte, North Carolina 28255 last month 21st by the management of the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDS (I.M.F) Benin republic branch under the authority of MR. Eliot Gold of Florida. I would have informed you of this since last month but I was too busy attending to our numerous customers. For these funds to be transferred to your private account you will have to re-confirm us with your full information including your bank details were the ineterest of this fund will be transfer to you.

THANKS as we wait to hear from you soon.

God bless America.

Sheri B. Bronstein,

Bank of America®

Email: baakkoffamericaa@gmail.com

Phone number for text massage only: +19704142497

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Aug 20, 2020 at 12:14 AM by
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"From: Infor From Bank Of America Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 07:48:35 AM EDT Subject: Attention: Customer Your Fund Transfer $2.8MILLION, Bank of America New York Head Office of (Paying Bank) Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park is a 1,200 ft (366 m) skyscraper in the Midtown district of Manhattan in New York City, in the United States. boanewyorkboa@gmail.com Attention: Customer Your Fund Transfer $2.8MILLION, We are hereby officially notify you concerning your fund telegraphic,Transfer through our bank, Bank of America, New York, to your bank account, which has been officially approved by the management of World Bank Swiss (WBS) to credit the sum of US$$2.8MILLION, into your bank account. This fund was part of the lodged Late President Saddam Hussein of Iraq discovery fund with World Bank of Switzerland, which the Swiss Bank has decided to distribute it generously to help few lucky individuals and the American Government is in agreement with the Swiss Bank to distribute the fund to 700 hundred thousand people in America, Europe & Asia in other to help improve their businesses These are the information we needed to be reconfirmed by you.and you are advise to reply here ( boanewyorkboa@gmail.com ) as soon as you get this message for the immediately process to transfer the money into your bank account once the information is provide by you, 1.Your full name 2.Your Direct Cell 3.Your address Yours Faithfully, Mr. Peter John Brady," Here is another scam.

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May 7, 2020 at 9:48 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

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"Bank of America Corporate Office Headquarters
100 N.Tryon St Charlotte,NC 28255 United States of America
Our Ref:BOA/IRU/SFE/15.5/WD/019
Attn:Dear Esteemed Beneficiary
We the Bank of America are using this message content to appeal for the inconveniences that is surrounding your compensated funds Remittance of $10.500.000.00 in our custody, we held meeting yesterday concerning the problem affecting your funds in our care and after all deliberation, we the Panels came together in agreement to settle your unpaid sum through our card system. The debit card can be used on any ATM machine all over the world or you can go to your bank to off-load the funds
To this effect, you are to contact us with the details below for the immediate verification/authentication of the release of your funds
Full Name..
Home Address..
Age/Occupation..
Valid Phone number..
Country/State..
Any Of Your Identity Card..
This payment has been stalled for years and if you are still interested to claim your fund, please contact me back for immediate payment of this overdue contract sum to you.Do not fail to contact me if you have any questions
Thanks for banking with Bank of America while we looking forward to serving you with the best of our service.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.DONALD JOHNSON
Bank of America®
Corporate Office Headquarters,Charlotte,N.C.
Bank of America"

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Oct 9, 2019 at 11:58 AM by
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Here is another scam: "From: Christine P. Katziff Sent: 08 October 2019 20:06 Subject: Corporate General Auditor (BOA) Bank of America Financial Center Metro Center Station 700 13th St NW, Washington, DC 20005, United States Office of Ms. Christine P. Katziff Corporate General Auditor (BOA) Wire Transfer & Audit Department Dear, This is to acknowledge the receipt of your email and to notify you that I have taken my time to work out all the modalities that will empower me to initiate the transfer of your inheritance part-payment of $7,000.000.00 without getting myself into any kind of trouble but before I proceed, I request and plead with you to keep all our correspondence very confidential till you have confirmed your funds in your possession. Please, I have secretly opened conversation with the U.S. Department of The Treasury with our bank's accredited attorney and they promised to give me a fund transfer approval Clearance that will empower me to make the transfer to your account without any hitch. I hereby advise you to forward your full names, residential address, 4x4 passport photograph and copy of any utility bill paid in your name. Bank Names: Bank Address: Bank Account No: Bank Account Names: Swift No: Routing No: I await your urgent response. Thanks and remain richly blessed. Christine P. Katziff Corporate General Auditor Bank of America Financial Center"

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Oct 7, 2019 at 3:51 PM by
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Here is another scam: "From: Christine P. Katziff Sent: 07 October 2019 19:26 To: Recipients Subject: Bank of America Financial Center Bank of America Financial Center Metro Center Station 700 13th St NW, Washington, DC 20005, United States Office of Ms. Christine P. Katziff Corporate General Auditor (BOA) Wire Transfer & Audit Department Attention: I am Ms. Christine P. Katziff, Corporate General Auditor, Bank of America. Be informed of the arrival and availability of your long awaiting inheritance fund Part Payment value, ($7, 000,000.00) only as received. This occurred on the January 21st 2019, through great effort by the USA Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). But our Bank Board of Directors, refused to get you informed for reasons best known to them, which I believe, must be selfish interest. I made my research in our Bank database and confirmed I can wire the fund to your choice of Bank account and have the wire tracer wiped out from the system, where the fund wire transfer cannot be traced to your Bank account by any Financial Authority. Therefore, I urge you to trust my skill and assure me the absolute confidentiality of this information, and I will have your fund wired via the fastest method of wire transfer, (MT202 Cov), If you agree or can trust my skill on this matter, reconfirm your details as listed bellow, and I will transfer your fund as you will confirm it in your Bank account same day. If you have any doubt or negative thought about this, please, don't bother to reply this message, I cannot persuade you, I am only here to exercise my hatred on cheating and cheaters, using my perfect professional skill. Be assured of a successful completion of this deal upon adhering to my directives by acting at the right time where necessary. No INTERFERENCE from the Government or any Financial Authorities, no one will have the right to intervene on the transaction following my perfect plans to make it happen. Reconfirm the following details to enable us commence on the process immediately. Your Full Names: Your Current Home Address: Your Direct Cell: Your Current Occupation: Bank Names: Bank Address: Bank Account No: Bank Account Names: Swift No: Routing No: Christine P. Katziff Corporate General Auditor Bank of America Financial Center christinekatziff@outlook.com"

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Jul 24, 2019 at 8:41 PM by
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"From: Bank of America Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 23:30:51 0430 Subject: Notification Update Of Your Inheritance Fund Worth The Sum Of $35musd Bank Of America.Corporate Office Headquarters. 100 N. San Francisco-Oakland, California 28255 USA. Our Ref: BOA/IRU/SFE/15.5/WD/011 Working Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time(EDT) Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time(EDT) Notification Update Of Your Inheritance Fund Worth The Sum Of $35,000,000.00 ( Thirty Five Million United State Dollars ) With This Bank. Attention: Beneficiary, Please Pay Attention,This is an urgent notification payment update which will be a great help to you in receiving your unclaimed inheritance fund which you abandon with this Bank for long that has been approved for your immediate payment, I saw a file last week in your name with all your information from our central computer stating that abandoned fund worth of $35,000,000.00 ( Thirty five Million United state Dollars ) belongs to you, I want to know from you the reason why you abandoned such big amount of fund here in our bank for long up til this moment without any claim by you the beneficiary. After a brief meeting held by the Bank executives yesterday at precisely 8 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) we deem it appropriate to intimate you that your funds will be transferred into the United States Treasury Account with the JP Morgan Chase Headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in New York according to the record we got due to your inability to complete the transaction and your failure to meet up with a minor payment obligation. ... Secondly, I also want to notify you that we received a payment information today from the the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND BENIN (IMF) through Dr. Akpu OGU the director in charge of approving the OWNERSHIP CLEARANCE APPROVED CERTIFICATE to you which is below is the info for you to use in sending the document fee of $80 today to there office in BENIN via either RIA, or Money Gram, RECEIVERS NAME: AKPU OGU COUNTRY: BENIN REPUBLIC CITY: COTONOU AMOUNT TO PAY: $80 DOLLARS MTCN/REFERENCE NUMBERS. SENDERS NAME AND ADDRESS We encourage you to Treat this matter as urgent today by sending the fee needed for the approving the OWNERSHIP CLEARANCE APPROVED CERTIFICATE to you from the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND BENIN (IMF) and send the document fee of $80 to him today for the approving of the document to you for us to transfer your fund into your account,We hope to hear from you today. Regards, headquartersbankofamericaoffice@aol.com Sheri B. Bronstein, Bank of America" Here is another scam.

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Jul 23, 2019 at 8:24 PM by
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"From: Christine P. Katziff Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 1:07 AM Subject: YOUR FUND IS READY Bank of America Financial Center Metro Center Station 700 13th St NW, Washington, DC 20005, United States Office of Ms. Christine P. Katziff Corporate General Auditor (BOA) Wire Transfer & Audit Department Email:chris2pkatziffc@gmail.com. Attention Beneficiary, I am Ms. Christine P. Katziff, Corporate General Auditor, Bank of America. Be informed of the arrival and availability of your long awaiting inheritance fund giving by World Bank and United Nations, Part Payment value,($25, 000,000.00) only as received. This occurred on the May 4th 2019, through great effort by the USA Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). But our Bank (BOA) Board of Directors, refused to get you informed for reasons best known to them, which I believe, must be selfish interest. I made my research in our Bank database and confirmed I can upload the fund to an ATM VISA CARD and have the card ship to your address and wiped it out from our central system, where the your fund cannot be traced by Financial Authority. Therefore, I urge you to trust my skill and assure me the absolute confidentiality of this information, and I will have your fund upload in an ATM CARD via the fastest method of ATM uploading method, (MT202 Cov), If you agree or can trust my skill on this matter, reconfirm your details as listed below, and I will upload your fund as you will confirm it ship to you immediately. If you have any doubt or negative thought about this, please, don't bother to reply this message, I cannot persuade you, I am only here to exercise my hatred on cheating and cheaters of your money, using my perfect professional skill. Be assured of a successful completion of this deal upon adhering to my directives by acting at the right time where necessary. Reconfirm the following details via email (katziffchris22@yahoo.com) to enable me commence on the process immediately. Your Full Names: Your Current Home Address: Zip Code: Your Direct Cell: Your Current Occupation: Christine P. Katziff Corporate General Auditor Bank of America Financial Center Your Payment" Here is another scam.

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Jul 11, 2019 at 12:37 AM by
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"From: Mr.David I IKE Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 8:17 pm Subject: Attentions Dear Beneficiary, From BANK OF AMERICA International Groups (BOA) NG FOUNDED 1727. Office of the Director of Remittance Foreign Exchange Transfer Department 250 Bishops Gate, New York. EC2M 3AA USA OUR Reference Number: REF/NO: 002-RBS/0047/2016 OUR Financial Services Authority (FSA) Registered number 121878. Attentions Dear Beneficiary, I am Mr. David I IKE, Chairman Group Managing Directors and Operating Officer Foreign Remittance Department BANK OF AMERICA Groups International (BOA) USA. I am contacting you following the protest of the United Nations organization against every unpaid funds by the banks to the rightful beneficiaries. Based on this, I am directed to contact you and inform you that you are among the unpaid beneficiaries the United Nations Organization has approved to receive the compensation payment sum of US$5.5 million from this bank, the "BANK OF AMERICA" covering your long overdue unpaid contract inheritance fund. Consequently, the Presidency World Bank Groups has through the NEW USA Ministry of Finance approved the payment sum of US$5.5 million to be made to you from this bank. And this is to officially inform you that the total sum US$5.5 million will be programmed in an ATM MASTER CARD This is a special payment arrangement approved by the World Bank Groups, International Monetary Fund Authority, Federal Bureau of Investigation Authority and United Nations Debts Reconciliation Council legitimately designed out by the authorities to pay all victims of internet scam, Affected Natural Disaster people, Retired marine officers, Retired military officers, second World war Veterans, Peace Keeping Military officers, Bankruptcy business company owners, unpaid Lottery winners, first and last generation family Contract and inheritance payments beneficiaries as well as retired local/international government and company agents that have not yet received their entitlements. Meanwhile, the online account we will set up for you here and the ATM card we will issue to you from the account need to be activated here with your personal data in order to make it safe, easy and secured for your personal use. And to avoid wrong activation, you are required to reconfirm your information to us as below as we hope to process your payment and your fund to you immediately; 1. Your full name; 2. Your resident address: 3. Your contact telephone number: 4. Your driver’s license ID or any other identification ID: Finally, you are advised to quickly respond to this message providing us with your information as requested above so that I will finalize and proceed have your payment release to you, for any more discussion you need to have with me regarding this payment and your urgent response to this Email ; ( billandexchangeworldbank@gmail.com ) is highly anticipated. Thank you. Mr.David I IKE, Chairman Group Managing Directors, And Operating Officer Foreign Remittance Department BANK OF AMERICA USA" Here is another scam.

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Jul 7, 2019 at 6:46 PM by
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"From: "Bank Of America" Date: July 7, 2019 at 7:03:02 AM MST Subject: Attn: Beneficiary Reply-To: Instruction To Credit Your Account! Greetings I am Mrs. Christine P. Katziff, the newly-sworn Chief Audit Executive of Bank of America. You will get more information about me here. https://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/christine-katziff We have this day 5th of July 2019 received a payment credit instruction from President of United States of America, Mr. Donald Trump to credit your account with your Outstanding Payment valued at US$36,500,000.00 Million Dollars from the United Nation reserve account, I have made it my first point of call since taking office to settle all outstanding payments accrued to individuals or corporations with respect to local and overseas contract payment, debt re-scheduling and outstanding compensation payment. This is to make sure all outstanding payments are before the end of this month July 2019. Meanwhile, after due scrutiny and verification, I confirmed that you have fulfilled all the necessary obligations that will enable the release of your payment to you, but yet your fund worth $36.5 Million was not released to you due to one flimsy excuses or the other from the Bank officials in charge of your payment, because they had the intention of diverting your funds to their private accounts in order to satisfy their selfish interest. I have your file here in my office and it says that you are yet to receive your fund valued at US$36,500,000.00 (Thirty Six Million Five hundred thousand Dollars only). This Funds will now be transferred to your nominated bank account or your preferred payment option. You are advised to kindly reply this email with the below details enclosed to help us process your payment, Your Full Name: . Your House Address: .. Your Phone Number: .. Your Country: .. Your Occupation: . Your Age: .. Copy of Your I.D: .. Email address: ... Your Bank details: ... Please do provide the above information accurately, because this office cannot afford to be held liable for any wrong transfer of funds or liability of funds credited into unknown account. As soon as the above mentioned details are received, your payment will be made to you immediately We are sorry for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of your fund must have caused you. Be informed that this is Bank of America you can call this phone to discuss with the manager in charge 1 (980) 355-5531 YOUR SWIFT RESPONSE IS HIGHLY NEEDED IN THIS RESPECT. NB: THIS TRANSACTION IS BEING MONITORED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO GUARDS US FOR INTERNET IMPOSTORS. Signed: Yours Faithfully, Mrs. Christine P. Katziff, Chief Audit Executive Officer, Bank of America Office North Carolina® Bank Address: 100 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina, 28202 U.S. Payment Value: $36,500.000.00 USD" Here is another scam.

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Jun 28, 2019 at 8:30 AM by
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"From: milerobert76@yahoo.com Date: June 28, 2019 at 1:50:25 AM EDT Subject: From: Mrs. Katrina Sharkey Reply-To: vitalfinanceb@gmail.com From: Mrs. Katrina Sharkey Director Vital Finance Bank Vital Finance Bank Benin Republic Our Ref: VFB-0XX2/482/010 Attn: Beneficiary, IMMEDIATE CONTRACT/INHERITANCE PAYMENT We wish to bring to your notice about the due process of your outstanding Contract/Inheritance payment which was suspended by the management of this Bank by stopping the telex unit to pause the transfer of your contract/inheritance funds to your nominated bank account. During the auditing of all financial records in our Bank (VITAL FINANCE BANK), it was discovered from the records of outstanding payment with our Bank that, your name is next on the list of those who will receive their funds. As a result of this development, verification conducted by credit department in conjunction with the Debt Verification Panel on your contract/inheritance fund, your file has been endorsed for immediate payment awaiting your confirmations. Meanwhile, three men came to my office few days ago with a letter, claiming to be your true representative. They were two CANADIANS and a BRITISH BARRISTER and they introduced themselves as Mr. Tim Parker and Mr. Roland Gulf and the Barrister's name David Mayfield. Below is the information they presented to my office: BANK NAME: BANK OF AMERICA BENEFICIARY OF THE ACCOUNT: MR.ROLAND GULF BANK ACCOUNT: 250880939815 SWIFT CODE: USBKUS44IMT ACCOUNT ROUTING NUMBER: 104000029 As the Finance Director of this Noble Bank, I was supposed to Release your Funds to them but I refused to do so because I wanted to hear from you first. Due to the Nature of my job, I would not want to make any mistake in releasing your Funds to anyone except you whom is the Recognized Bona fide Beneficiary to these Funds. Please we would like you to confirm to this office immediately if these men are truly from you or not, so that our bank will not be held responsible for paying into wrong account. You are also requested to fill and forward the information below for verification purposes so that your fund valued U.S$9.5 Million Dollars will be remitted into your nominated bank account (1)Your Full Name And Address: (2) Your Age And Marital Status: (3) Your Occupation: (4) Your Telephone Number: (5). Your Nationality: (6) Your Bank Details As soon as we receive the above requested information, we will proceed with the process of remitting your funds into your bank account. We are sorry for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of this fund must have caused you. We are waiting for your urgent response in regards to this notification. Yours Faithfully, Mrs. Katrina Sharkey Finance Director Vital Finance Bank send a Text Message or Whatsapp 1(412)219-4362. Email: vitalfinanceb@gmail.com" Here is another scam.

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Jun 26, 2019 at 6:59 AM by
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"From: Brian T. Moynihan Date: Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:47 PM Subject: Attn: Online Beneficiary Your details information has been received and confirmed with what we have in our database before we proceed to set up your Bank of America Personal Residential Online Account, we want to bring to your notice the simple procedure to achieve this aim with our bank under my supervision. First and foremost the origin of funds has previously advised in my initial e-mail was from the United Nation Organization on unpaid payments from deposit funds from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. Your name and contact information was retrieved from the short listed data on the file of the United Nation Organization..." Here is another scam.

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Jun 11, 2019 at 3:32 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Pocatello, Idaho, United States

"We encourage you to Treat this matter as urgent today by sending the
fee needed for the approving the OWNERSHIP CLEARANCE APPROVED
CERTIFICATE to you from the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND BENIN (IMF)
and send the document fee of $80 to him today for the approving of the
document to you for us to transfer your fund into your account,We hope
to hear from you today.
Regards,
SherI B. Bronstein,
Bank of America®
On 10 Jun 2019 9:05 pm, "john shipes" wrote:
Hello Sheri,
I try to called you 5 times it rejected. I have not a text massage. I want you give me your phone for voice. I use my laptop phone video an interpreter relay, I'm deaf. I want to talk you about
A compensations funds worth $35 million us dollars that were said to belong to
you was transferred to our bank corporate headquarters at Charlotte, North Carolina 28255 last month 21st by the management of the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDS (I.M.F) Benin republic branch under the authority of MR. Eliot Gold of Florida
From John Shipes
On Saturday, June 1, 2019, 4:03:18 PM MDT, SherI B. Bronstein wrote:
Bank Of America.Corporate Office Headquarters.
100 N. San Francisco-Oakland, California 28255 USA.
Our Ref: BOA/IRU/SFE/15.5/WD/011
Working Hours: Monday-Friday
8 a.m.-9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time(EDT)
Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time(EDT)
Hello my dear good citizen of USA how are you doing today?
A compensations funds worth $35 million us dollars that were said to belong to
you was transferred to our bank corporate headquarters at Charlotte, North ou Carolina 28255 last month 21st by the management of the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDS (I.M.F) Benin republic branch under the authority of MR. Eliot Gold of Florida. I would have informed you of this since last month but I was too busy attending to our numerous customers. For these funds to be transferred to your private account you will have to re-confirm us with your full information including your bank details were the interest of this fund will be transfer to
you.
THANKS as we wait to hear from you soon.
God bless America.
SherI B. Bronstein,
Bank of America®"
Phone number for text massage only: 19704142497

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