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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: "James Mpoyo" <j_mpo01@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:04:55 +0200
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
JAMES MPOYO.
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
Email j_mpo02@hotmail.com
PHONE NO +27 84 030 9477
ATTN: CEO/DIRECTOR,
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
You will be surprised to receive this letter since you don't know me
personally, but do see this request as a call from somebody in dare need of
your kind assistance. For the purpose of introduction, I am Mr. JAMES MPOYO
the eldest son of Dr. MPOYO who was recently murdered with other white
farmers in the land dispute violence in Zimbabwe last year. In my keen
interest to invest in your country, I got your contact through South African
Information Exchange here in Johannesburg, South Africa, and decided to
write for your assistance.
My late father was among the few black Zimbabwean rich farmers murdered in
cold blood by the Killer Squad of the ruling government of President Robert
Mugabe on the 12th of March, 2003 for his alleged support and sympathy for
the Zimbabwean opposition party controlled by whites and this crisis and
cold-blood murder reports were communicated to the whole world through BBC,
CNN and even United Nations General Assembly meetings for heads of
governments of member nations.
Before his death, he had taken me to Johannesburg where he deposited the sum
of US$33,600,000 (THIRTY THTREE MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES
DOLLARS) with a security and finance company for safe keeping as if he
foresaw the looming danger that could erupt from the farm struggle in
Zimbabwe. This money was deposited in a box as a consignment labeled 'Family
Treasure', with the security company. This was informed as not to allow the
company management has the knowledge of the real content of the box for
obvious safety reasons. This money was earmarked for the purchase of
machineries and agro-chemical for the farms and the establishment of new
farms-settlements in Lesotho and Swaziland.
This land problem arose when President Robert Mugabe introduced a new land
act, which wholly affected the rich white farmers and some objective blacks.
This resulted to forceful ejection of whites from their lands, rampant
killings, arson and mob actions by the war veteran and some political thugs.
Precisely, more than one hundred and seven people have been killed and many
others maimed for life in the past and up till July 2002, BBC, CNN have
reported of more killings in the farmland violence. Heads of government from
the Western World, especially Britain and the United States of America have
voiced their condemnation over Mugabe's obnoxious land acts.
The South African Development community (SADC) has continued to support
Mugabe's new Land Reform Acts. It is against this background that I and my
family who are currently staying in South Africa have decided to transfer
this money out of South Africa into a trust foreign account.
As the eldest son of my father, I am saddled with the responsibility of
seeking a genuine foreign account where this money could be transferred to,
without the knowledge of Zimbabwean government who have tactically frozen my
family's wealth, secondly, my mother,Mrs. Blessing Mpoyo is presently sick
of Heart Disease and the need to fly her out for a medical operation is very
important. But how can we fly without this fund. Presently, we are residing
temporarily in Johannesburg pending the out come of an appeal filed on our
behalf by our attorney for the Depart of Home Affairs to grant us asylum
status. At the moment we are in dilemma to the fiscal laws inhibiting South
Africa Refugees on monetary policy. We request that this proposal should be
granted so that we can be able to transfer this money to your nominated
account outside South Africa for investment purposes.
As a business man who I wish to entrust my future and that of my family in
his hands, I must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free as
far as you keep it secret, the modalities to this transfer is ready with the
help of our family lawyer, a member of a Bank Board, a South African who by
his help we finished all the arrangements the way this money should be
transferred easily. But the problem we are facing is now to get an honest
and responsible person that can keep this money safe and stand as
beneficiary.
If you can sincerely assist us with the whole of your heart to transfer this
fund into your nominated bank account, please, send a return mail to me as
quickly as possible, give me your confidential phone and fax numbers for
more information.
Thanks as I am looking forward towards your urgent response.
Best Regards
Mr JAMES MPOYO.
_________________________________________________________________
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