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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: "johndube6" <johndube6@canada.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:13:32 -0800
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL
REQUEST FOR TRANSFER ASSISTANCE
Dear Sir/Madam
My name is MR.John Dube of Zimbabwe. It might be a surprise
to you where I got your contact address,i got it from your
country's Trade Journal from South African
Chamber of commerce. During the current crises against the
farmers of Zimbabwe by the supporters of our president,
Robert Mugabe to claim all the white and opposition owned
farms in our country, he ordered all the white and
opposition farmers to surrender their farms to his party
members and their followers. My father was one of the best
farmers in the country and knowing that he did not support
the president?fs political ideology, the president's
supporters invaded my father's farm and burnt down every
thing, shot him and as a result of the wounds he sustained,
he became sick and died two days later. After his death,
my mother and I with my younger brother decided to move out
of Zimbabwe for the safety of our lives to South Africa.
But before he died he wrote his WILL which reads My beloved
son, I wish to draw your attention to the sum of US$20
million US Dollars which I deposited in a box with a
security company in Johannesburg, South Africa. In case of
my absence on earth caused by death only,you should solicit
for reliable foreign partner to assist you to transfer this
money out of South Africa for investment purpose. I
deposited the money in your name and you can claim it alone
with the deposit code. Your mother has all the documents.
Take good care of your mother and brother. From the above,
you will understand that the lives and future of my family
depends on this money , I will be very grateful if you can
assist us. We are now living in South Africa as Political
Asylum Seeker, and the financial law of South Africa does
not allow asylum seekers certain financial rights to such
huge amount of money. In view of this, I cannot invest this
money in South Africa, and hence I am asking you to assist
me to transfer this money out of South Africa for investment
purposes. For your efforts, I am prepared to offer you 20%
of the total fund, while 5%will be set aside for local and
international expenses and 75% will be kept for my family
and I (me) Finally modalities on how the transfer will be
done will be conveyed to you once we establish trust and
confidence between ourselves.
Looking forward to your urgent reply. For detailed
information, you can contact me on my direct line +27-73-107
2768 or via email.
Note: the key word to this transaction is absolute
confidentiality and secrecy. This transaction is 100% risk
free.
Your urgent response will be highly appreciated.
best regards,
John Dube
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