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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: "Ndalolo Ousuf" <ndalolousuf@z6.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:35:58 +0400
Subject:
My Dear,
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 Ndalolo Ousuf, the son of Uthman Ousuf, a farmer from
Zimbabwe, murdered in the land dispute in my country. As led by my
instinct, I decided to contact you through database as it is the only means I can contact you since I am cut 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, all white farmers were asked to surrender their farms to the government for re-distribution and in fact 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.
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 will documents with instructions from my father that we should leave Zimbabwe incase anything happen to him. The will documents have a certificate of deposit, confirming a cash deposit totaling Fifteen million five hundred thousand united state
dollars. (US$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, 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. Michael Smith 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 was born. In fact my decision to come here to stay is because the security company has a branch here, I have contacted them to move the safe deposit from their office in Harare to the South Africa here, which they have since
done.
I need to transfer this money to an account and invest part of it. I am seeking a genuine and reliable partner, whose account this money can be transferred into, 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 from their office here in South Africa, as it has now been transferred from Zimbabwe to South Africa. 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.
Which of the option you choose, please try and notify me in your reply.
I have also set aside 5% of this money for all kinds of expenses that come our way in the process of this transaction, and 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 for me.
Please, I want you to maintain absolute secrecy for the purpose of this transaction.
Your reply should be sent to my private email address which is above.
I look forward to your reply and co-operation, and I thank you in advance as I anticipate your
co-operation.
Sincerely,
Ndalolo Ousuf.
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