Cash down

Spam can be really annoying but there are a few that are hard to ignore. One such purportedly sent from the Reserve Bank of India under the subject line "official payment notification" says, "Attention beneficiary! £500,000 GREAT BRITISH POUNDS will be released to you in your name". The attached document says the recipient was listed as a beneficiary in the recent schedule for payment of outstanding debts incurred by the "BRITISH GOVERNMENT pending since 2007 to 2013". It also talks about a meeting - that took place "recently on the 20th of November 2013" - where "RBI governor Dr Raghuram Rajan, and Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations met with the Senate Tax Committee on Finance, regarding unclaimed funds". Here's the catch: the recipient is "required to pay 22,200 INR ONLY in cash deposit" as transfer fees. A lottery of £500,000 for Rs 22,200 only, not a bad deal, eh?