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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: "Jacob Kamala" <happyfamily.kamala@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:27:17 -0700
Subject: Re:To receive my fund into your account
From Jacob Kamala
Cnr.Jack & Refinery Road,
Industries West, Germiston.
Phone Number: +27 832373322
Email:happyfamily.kamala@gmail.com <Email%3Ahappyfamily.kamala@gmail.com>
Business Proposal.
Good Day,
With warm hearts I offer my friendship, and my greetings, and I hope this
letter meets you in good time. It will be surprising to you to receive this
proposal from me since you do not know me personally. However, I am
sincerely seeking your confidence in this transaction, which I propose with
my free mind and as a person of integrity. My name is Jacob Kamala the son
of Mr. A.Y Kamala, a farmer from Zimbabwe, murdered in the land dispute in
my country. As led by my instinct, I decided to contact you through email,
after searching for contacts via the internet, as it is the only means I can
contact anybody since I am cutting off ties with Zimbabwe for now.
I apologize if this is not acceptable to you. The purpose of this letter is
to seek your most needed assistance in a business venture. Due to the land
and political problems in Zimbabwe, as a result of President Robert Mugabe's
introduction of new Land Act Reform wholly affecting the rich white farmers
and the few rich black farmers. Actually all white farmers were asked to
surrender their farms to the government for re-distribution and infect to
his political party members and my father though black was the treasury of
the farmers association and a strong member of an opposition party that did
not support the president's idea. There after he then ordered his party
members and the police under his pay row to invade my father's farm and burn
down everything in the farm. They killed my father and took away a lot of
items from his farm. After the death of my father, our local pastor and a
close friend of my father handed us over his will documents with
instructions from my father that we should leave Zimbabwe incase anything
happen to him. The will document has a certificate of deposit, confirming a
cash deposit totaling Fifteen million five hundred thousand united state
dollars. [15.5m] kept in custody for us in a security company unknown to the
company that the content is money hence it was deposited as personal
belongings.
This money was deposited with this Private Security Company for safety and
security reasons, and was to be used for the purchase of land, new machines
and chemicals establishment of new farms in Botswana. This violent and
barbaric act by Mugabe has since led to the death of my beloved mother and
kid sister and other innocent lives. I was continually threatened to abandon
my inheritance from my father after he was murdered. I resisted for a while,
but when the danger became unbearable, and I survived two murder attempts, I
fled Zimbabwe with the help of my father's close friend Mr. John Casahans
from Australia also a farmer who was leaving in Zimbabwe with us but left
with his family following this ugly development I have tried to reach him
but all to no avail. I am currently staying in the South Africa where I am
seeking political asylum. In fact my decision to come here to seek asylum,
is because the security company from Zimbabwe, has a branch here, I have
contacted them to move the safe deposit from their office in Johannesburg
here, which they have since done. Therefore I need to transfer this money to
an account and invest part of the money. Since the law of South Africa
prohibits a refugee (asylum seeker) to open any bank account or to be
involved in any financial transaction, this is why I am seeking a genuine
and reliable partner, whose account this money can be transferred, hence
this proposal to you.
You have to understand that this decision taken by me is a very big and
brave one, and it entrusts my future in your hands, as a result of the safe
keeping of this money. If you accept to assist me, all I want you to do for
me, is to assist with arrangements to claim the deposit from the security
company's office here in South Africa, as it has now been transferred from
Zimbabwe, Johannesburg South Africa to their branch here. The company will
be legally informed of you representing me. For your assistance, I have two
options for you.
Firstly you can choose to have 20% of the money for your assistance, and
helping me open an account for the money to be deposited here, or you can go
into partnership with me for the proper profitable investment of the money
in your country. Whichever the option you want, please to notify me in your
reply. I have also set aside 1 % of this money for all kinds of expenses
that come our way in the process of this transaction, and 4% for Charity
donation. If you prefer to accept the 20% for your moral and financial
assistance then the balance will be left in the account here for me.
Unless otherwise indicate or obvious from the nature of this transmittal,
the information contained in this email message is privileged and
confidential information intended for the use of the individual or entity
named above. If the reader of this message in not intended recipient, or the
employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the recipient, you are hereby
notified that any dissemination, distribution or coping of this
communication is strictly prohibited. If your have received this in error or
are not sure whether it is privileged, please immediately notify me by above
number or email address and return or destroy the original.
Thanks.
Please, I want you to maintain absolute secrecy for the purpose of this
transaction. I look forward to your reply and co operation, and I thank you
in advance as I anticipate your co-operation.
Sincerely Yours,
Jacob Kamala.
PLEASE YOU CAN READ ABOUT PROBLEMS IN ZIMBABWE FROM THE LINKS BELOW.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm
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