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From: "Ms Winifred Botha" <msbothaprivate@sify.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:53:28 -1200
Subject: Greetings to you and your family,
>From The Desk Of
Ms. Ntombazana Gertrude Winifred Botha
the Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture
Government of the Republic of South Africa.
Greetings to you and your family,
Please it is with warm heart that I offer my friendship and
greetings and I hope this mail meets you in good time,
however strange or surprising this contact might seem to
you as we have not met personally or had any dealings in the
past, I humbly ask that you take due consideration of it's
importance and the immense benefit it will be to you and my
family.
After careful consideration with my children, we resolved to
contact you for your most needed assistance in this manner.
I duly apologize for infringing on your privacy, if this
contact is not acceptable to you, as I make this proposal to
you as a person of integrity. First and foremost I wish to
introduce myself properly. My name is Ms. Ntombazana
Gertrude Winifred Botha the Deputy Minister of Arts and
Culture Government of the Republic of South Africa since 29
April 2004. You can go through my profile
<http://www.info.gov.za/leaders/depmin/artscult.htm>
I will now give you a general overview of the situation.
When I was sworn in as Deputy Minister of Provincial and
Local Government in 30 May 2001-29 April 2004, with my
influence,my husband, late Mr. Radabe G. Botha a very
successful businessman was awarded several contracts in my
ministry and had direct dealings with foreign investors in
this field. Due to my political status I was not involved in
my husbands business which was very vast and successful.
My beloved husband died whilst on an official trip to
Trinidad and Tobago in February 2003.When my husband died,I
was contacted as Next of Kin by a Foreign Financial
Institution in overseas to come forth with the Certificate
of Deposit and claim a safety deposit my husband has in
their firm in his name. At that time, my children and I did
not have an idea where the Certificate might be. We then
instructed the Institution to continue holding the safety
deposit until further instructions from me.
Whilst preparing for the second remembrance of my beloved
husband, I was going through his library collection and to
my astonishment I discovered a Certificate of Deposit for
the safety deposit with this private Financial security
firm, and other documents relating to the safety deposit in
a file.
The safety deposit according to the documents is available
in trunk with hard currency amounting to Thirty Six Million
United States Dollar with the Finaincial Firm which was
generated from cash payments from his business associates in
the diamond trade and Contracts.Though, I knew my late
husband was in the diamond business but do not have any
knowledge that he moves funds in cash to oversea.
This has come as a shock to me and my children, and we have
decided to have this fund invested immediately in commercial
and residential properties abroad as well as in any
profitable ventures, since no member of my family can hold
such huge amount in our name here considering my political
status and my Position here in the Government I cannot be
able to execute these business myself or any of my family
member to aviod being probed or questioned by the
Government, hence we sincerely appeal to you to render us
your most needed assistance in this regard.
If you agree to render us your assistance, your role in this
project will be to act on my behalf as a trustee/business
associate to my Late Husband to receive the safety deposit
funds from the Security firm, are you clear?.Though,I
believe this transaction should be based on mutuality,a
family associate, who is a diplomat will protect my family's
interest. He is now aware of the safety deposit, and I have
informed him that I am locating one of my Late husband's
business associate to handle the funds and invest on our
behalf, as he might be opposed to our decision if he found
out that I barely know you.
The part of services the diplomat is required to render is
to assist you in claiming the consignments from the terminal
of the security company and to set up a transit domiciliary
account in your name in one of the prime bank he has
contacts to carry out the exercise through the back door.
The purpose of the account is to enable you deposit the
funds for further transfer into your nominated bank
account. For your reliable assistance, we are offering you
20% of the funds. I wish to thank you in advance as we
anticipate your assistance in enabling us achieve this
goal.
On hearing from you, I will forward your contact to the
diplomat who will be representing us,and also give you his
contact for both of you to communicate and proceed with the
transaction. He will be working with you for a mutual
conclusion of the process and I look forward to a long
lasting business relationship with you.
As you may understand, due to my sensitive position in the
present government, it is not safe to communicate with me
via phone or fax for now as all my comunications are well
monitored.
With warm regards,
MS. Ntombazana Gertrude Winifred Botha
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