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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: MRs.Luck Khumalo <khumalofamily@netscape.net>
Reply-To: khumalozeb@netscape.net
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:32:01 +0200
Subject: CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN YOUR COUNTRY
From Mrs. Lucky Khumalo
34 Gallo Court, 3 Avenue
Florida 1710
Johannesburg South Africa.
E-Mail Address:khumalozeb@netscape.net
CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN YOUR COUNTRY.
Dear Partner,
I am Mrs Luck Khumalo a Zimbabwean, of Mr. Madox Khumalo, a renowned Farmer in Bulawayo Town in Zimbabwe. I write on behalf of Khumalo´s family, to request if you are available and have the facility to assist my family undertake some capital investment in your country. It will be necessary to inform you that the {US$10.5M} Ten million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) intended for capitalization of the investments are presently in the custody of a private firm here in Johannesburg, South Africa which we require to Transfer out of South Africa immediately for the said investment purposes.
You may have heard of the present crisis in Zimbabwe orchestrated by the unprecedented Land use Act of the government of Robert Mugabe in which his government has arbitrarily reclaimed and acquired all farm lands owned by the white farmers in the country. This has caused a historical displacement of the white folks who are known to be the country's main farmers. The ensuing struggles and strife have brought about the killing and imprisonment of thousands of these white farm owners by the ruthless government forces designated to enforce this new order.
My father, in his good will, joined the international community in condemning and speaking out against this uncivilized and bizarre policy of Robert Mugabe's government. As a result of my father firm and upright position on this matter, a group of assailants suspected to be government sympathizers attached and killed my father in cold blood in February last year. Seeing that the entire Moyo's family was in serious threat of extinction, we immediately fled Zimbabwe to South Africa, where we have sojourned ever since as refugees under the United Nations.
Prior however, to my father untimely death he had, sensing the rising hostilities, sold some of his farm lands including those of some of his white farmer associates who had transferred ownership of their farm lands to my father to forestall the government acquiring them. My father secretly sent the proceeds {US$10.5M} Ten million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from sales of the farm lands to South Africa. And deposited it with a private firm here in Johannesburg.
Having seen your contact information in your country business journal, we now contact you for immediate assistance in lifting the funds out of South Africa for the said investments. It will interest you also to note that we have all this while articulated the needful arrangements through which the transfer will be affected. To come to terms with you regarding your reward for helping us actualize this matter, we have agreed to offer you 25% of the total money, 5% will be mapped out for the expenses we may incure during this transaction then 70% will be for me and my family. It is equally important to state here that considering the nature of this matter, we will required that it is handled most discreetly.
Kindly, contact me using the above E-MAIL ADDRESSES upon receipt of this letter for execution details and other necessary discussion. In anticipation of your trusted and Genuine assistance we remain,
yours sincerely
Mr. Lucky Khumalo.
For the family.
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