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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: assistmedavie@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 07:30:31 -0400
Subject: i need your assistance
Dearest In The Lord,
I know you will be surprised to read from me, but
please consider this
letter as request from a family in dare need for
your assistance.
Firstly, I must introduce myself which you have
known Mr. Davie
Mwaungulu
from Malawi, I am the first and the only son of Mr.
John Mwaungulu, I
am
presently residing in South Africa.
I got your contact from South Africa Information
Exchange who
sympathize with my family and who recommended you
have a dependable and
reliable to assist me and my family to make sure we
do not loss the
huge
amount after hearing what happen to me and my family
in Zimbabwe
and on
behalf of my Mother who is a widow Mrs.Grace
Mwaungulu. I decided to
solicit for your assistance to transfer the sum of
US$18M (Eighteen
Million United States Dollars) in your personal or
company account.
Before my father's death he was among the few Black
farmers in
Zimbabwean and he was poisoned by the agents of the
ruling government
of
President Robert Mugabe for his alleged support and
sympathy for
Zimbabwe
opposition party controlled by the White Zimbabwean.
Before his death,
he
had taken me to Johannesburg to deposit this money
to a Security and
Finance Company. This money was deposited in a box
as a gemstone to
avoid
much demurrage from the Security Company. It was
purchase of new machinery and chemicals for the
farms and to establish
new farms in Lesotho and Swaziland.
In his WILL he specially drew my attention to this
sum of US$18Million
(Eighteen Million United States Dollars) that he
deposited in a safe
box in a private Security and Finance Company here
in Johannesburg,
South
Africa.
IN FACT, MY FATHER SAID IN HIS WILL AND QUOTE:
My beloved Son, I wish to draw your attention to
this money which I
deposited in your name in a box with the Security
and Finance Company
in
Johannesburg, South Africa. In case of my absence on
earth caused by
death, you should solicit for a reliable foreign
partner to assist you
to
transfer this money out of South Africa for
investment purpose.
From the above, you will understand that the live
and future of my
family depends on this money as much as I will be
very grateful if you
can
assist us. We are now living in South Africa as
Asylum seekers and
financial laws of South Africa does not allow Asylum
seekers certain
rights
to such huge amount of money. In view of this, I
cannot invest this
money in South Africa; hence I am asking you to
assist me to transfer
this
money out of South Africa for investment purpose.
For your efforts, I
am prepared to offer you 25% of the total fund,
while 5% will be set
aside for local and international expenses and 70%
will be kept by my
family and me. Finally, modalities on how the
transfer will be done
will be
conveyed to you once we establish trust and
confidence between
ourselves.
Best Regards
Mr. Davie.
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