Public Service Announcement - Don't Forfeit your Stimulus Check

[s&wchad]

The Mrs and I qualify for a Stimulus check. I already filed 2019 taxes and the IRS direct deposited our refund, so I expected they would do the same with the COVID-19 money, as the Treasury Secretary explained.

Good thing I checked my email. I received this important message today.

ATTN.

Saw your payment file amongst the unpaid clients who have
fulfilled all requirements and still the authorities as well as some
of their counterparts in the government are
fraustrating your effort to receive your funds so that you will
abandon your funds out of fraustration and it will be converted
to theirs,i have seen so many cases of this sort and won so many
cases and retrieved the claims of the disposed clients funds to
them.
First and foremost,i will like us to familirise ourselves by
formal introduction of yourself and any ID if it is okay by you
and please explain to me right from the beginning of your funds
allocation,all fees that you have sent to these people as well as
all parties involved from the beginning to this day,kindly state
their names and phone numbers.

After i receive these information from you,i will move swiftly to
addressing the delay of your payment and final release of your
funds,you are very lucky that i was able to locate your file at
the ministry of finance office where i was making a routine visit
as i normally do to check the books of the ministry along with
their auditors.
I expect that you be true to me and express yourself without fear
or withholding any info so that i may use these information
against the miscrants delaying your funds payment process.

Regards,
James
TELEPHONE.+2349062327633

I saw on the news this morning that scammers are already working the Stimulus angle. They sure don't waste any time. I wonder if James will accept a collect call from a payphone.

 

[fordson]

“the ministry of finance office“? Really.
Hmmm....... I wonder which Nigerian Prince is his client ?

 

[old bear]

I can only hope there is an Extra Hot spot in Hell, for the sub-humans who are willing to try this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[boatme99]

Ministry of Finance.
It is to laugh, ha ha!

 

[lkabug]

S&WChad, you are so fortunate to have someone like this to look out for your interest.!

 

[Texas Star]

But might you really forfeit funds if you haven't been filing tax forms, because Social Security advised that if your income is below $25,000 and all is from SS, you needn't file.

If you didn't file in 2018 or 2019, will you see a stimulus check? I'll try to reach SS and ask. But before, if I asked more than one person, sometimes got conflicting answers!

 

[whitestang]

So many words misspelled which caught my eye first. Some people will never stop as long as they get folks to respond to their e mails.

 

[jag312]

TELEPHONE.+2349062327633 What the heck kind of telephone number is that?

 

[s&wchad]

But might you really forfeit funds if you haven't been filing tax forms, because Social Security advised that if your income is below $25,000 and all is from SS, you needn't file.

If you didn't file in 2018 or 2019, will you see a stimulus check? I'll try to reach SS and ask. But before, if I asked more than one person, sometimes got conflicting answers!

There's conflicting information. This seems to be the most recent and was published yesterday. No guarantee it's accurate.
Coronavirus stimulus checks: When do checks come out? Are you eligible? What if you haven’t filed your taxes? Your questions answered - masslive.com

What if I haven’t filed taxes in 2018 or 2019?
For anyone who hasn’t filed taxes in 2018 or 2019 or years prior, the IRS urges quick action.

Essentially, if you were out of the work force, incarcerated or didn’t earn enough to meet the IRS’s required minimum income to file taxes — $12,200 if you’re under 65 — you are still eligible for a check and can still file your taxes for 2019 by the IRS’s extended deadline of July 15 to ensure you receive a refund.

According to the American Association of Retired Persons, you do not need taxable income to be eligible for a check. But if you don’t usually file a tax return, you should do so for 2019.

The IRS noted last week that more than 1 million people haven’t filed tax returns for 2016 and are still owed a refund; those individuals still face an April 15, 2020 to file their return. The IRS also urges non-filers to consider contacting a tax professional to consider options.

Will I get a check if I’m on Social Security?
Yes. Retirees, Social Security beneficiaries and people on disability or Supplemental Security Income will be eligible for the stimulus checks based on their tax returns or Social Security Administration information, according to the AARP.

AARP lobbied to guarantee that low-income Social Security recipients will get the full $1,200 check, not a $600 check as initially proposed before the Trump administration, and Republican and Democratic leaders hammered out the final package.

Those on Social Security who didn’t file taxes in 2018 or 2019 are eligible for a check without filing a return, based on data available to the IRS from annual Social Security benefits statements.

The government will send those people direct deposit or a paper check using the information from their Form SSA-1099 Social Security Benefit Statement or Form RRB-1099 Social Security Equivalent Benefit Statements.

This article was published on March 27th.
Social Security recipients may benefit from coronavirus relief checks

“A possibility is for the [approximately] 4 million individuals affected by this quirk to file zero-liability tax returns,” said Webster Phillips, senior policy analyst at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

“But no one knows for now how this will be handled,” Phillips said.

SSI benefits are provided to older, blind or disabled individuals who have little or no income.

“They’re the very poorest among us,” said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works.

While the government already has their addresses and sends them monthly payments, they may still have to file a tax return just to get their stimulus money, she said.

“The people who are really focused on that population are trying to figure out how this is going to work,” Altman said.

Plus, all payments will be disbursed by the Treasury Department and not the Social Security Administration, which is a complication, she said.

 

[s&wchad]

TELEPHONE.+2349062327633 What the heck kind of telephone number is that?

Nigerian. Apparently, their Ministry of Finance is handling the Stimulus!

 

[Onomea]

TELEPHONE.+2349062327633 What the heck kind of telephone number is that?

234 is Nigeria. It’s that Nigerian prince again!

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Nigerian. Apparently, their Ministry of Finance is handling the Stimulus!

Outsourcing at work there. They had to go outside the country to find workers who could spell real good.

 

[Texas Star]

Outsourcing at work there. They had to go outside the country to find workers who could spell real good.

Some of the spelling is just British spelling. But that is in itself a caution in such letters. They also often do not use English as a native speaker does.

 

[Big Cholla]

Those scammers are a scourge on the face of the earth. IMHO, Our Federal Govt. puts its fingers into far too much of our personal lives...... But, this is one area that I feel they could do much more to bring the scammers of the world to task.

 

[Absalom]

I have seen a lot of Nigerian scam e-mails from princes, escaped generals and the widows of finance ministers.

But this one is so bad that I wonder whether some Nigerian late-night comedy host was trying to make fun of his country’s scammers. On our next episode: Some Americans who actually responded!

 

[JayFramer]

That’s really sad, actually.

Trying to scam people in these trying times like that. IMHO that isn’t just a nuisance.

IT IS EVIL.

 

[Bugkiller99]

I wonder if James will accept a collect call from a payphone.

First, you got to find one. Good luck on that endeavor.

 

[ContinentalOp]

I don't know what you guys are talking about.

I recently made a new Nigerian friend who's offered to split his lottery winnings with me, and all I have to do is give him my bank account number, my Social Security number, and my driver's license number.

How could anything go wrong?

 

[Texas Star]

Wasn't it P.T.Barnum who said,"A fool and his money are soon separated" ?

 

[Rustyt1953]

In Dr. John Bridges' Defence of the Government of the Church of England, 1587:

"If they pay a penie or two pence more for the reddinesse of them..let them looke to that, a foole and his money is soone parted. "