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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: "Gross Gunther" <grssgunth1@msn.com>
Reply-To: grssgunth@excite.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:33:16 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam
Dear Sir/Madam,
This letter might come to you as a surprise as we have not met before, but I
believe that you would be compelled to help me after going through the
contents of this email.
My name is Mr. Gross Gunther, I am a Zimbabwean of German Origin and married
with kids. I am a farmer in Zimbabwe. Basically, I was involved in
Agricultural production, until August last three years (2002), when the
government of Robert Mugabe
decided to seize all farm-land(s) owned by whites in Zimbabwe (without
compensation).
He (Robert Mugabe) did not stop at that, he also went further to expel all
White farmers in Zimbabwe.
He employed the assistance and services of his war veterans to undertake the
seizure. The war veterans have been accused (correctly) of being behind the
violent occupation of white-owned commercial farms in which an estimated
70,000 farm workers have been displaced. At least, eight white farmers and
four black settlers have been killed since the invasion of the farm{s} began
in February 2000.
As at this momemt, most of us have grudgingly gone back to Europe, while
some (a few) of us are still in Zimbabwe. We have decided that we must see
this problem to the end. Although we know that we are taking a great risk by
staying back here in Zimbabwe because as I write you at the moment, our
phone lines are bugged, and all our movements are under survilance kind of
monitored so to speak by Zimbabwe´s (Robert Mugabe´s) secret Police.
Therefore email is the safest means of communication for now. We (White
farmers in Zimbabwe) have taken our case to the United Nations, and even
with the threats of sanctions and the subsequent sanctions from the West
against the Zimbabwean Authorities, Robert Mugabe (The President of
Zimbabwe) is adamant over the issue. He is insisting that our farm land
(some of which we bought with our money and most of which We inherited from
our fathers) belong to the(his) government of Zimbabwe.
Anyway, as soon as I heard the rumour about the possible seizure of Our farm
land(s) and Our subsequent expulsion from Zimbabwe, I immediately sold part
of my farm land and withdrew all the money I had in Zimbabwean banks (Both
savings,fixed and current accounts).
Since I could not keep the money in Zimbabwe, I used the services of a
Diplomatic Courier Company to move this money (registered as official
documents) out of Zimbabwe to Europe. At present,my money totalling
US$23,350,000.(Twenty three million, three hundred and fifty thousand United
States Dollars) is in Europe and hopefully, it would be paid into an
offshore account.
Please can you be of help to me? Are you capable of handling this money?
Above all, are you sincere and trustworthy enough to do this for me? Can you
handle this money?
If you can,please contact me via my above email address.
All you need to do is to claim this money from the Courier Company. You will
be required to contact the Courier Company that moved this money out of
Zimbabwe to Europe.
All necessary particulars which can facilitate and enable you claim the
money on my behalf will be forwarded to you as soon as your consent to
proceed is received.
For your assistance, you will be entitled to 20% of the total sum. You are
also obliged to help/advise on the proper and most convenient way of
investing this money in your country, since this money cannot be brought
back in cash to it's Country of origin.
Hopefully, you will consider this request and respond positively. If you are
still in doubt after the
receipt of this email, please do not bother to contact me and ask
question(s) that might hinder your decision on this matter.
I await your favourable response.
Yours sincerely,
Gross Gunther.
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