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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: Justin Zuma <just_zuma@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:55:05 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Your urgent reply please.
From:Mr.Justin Zuma
Rue Du commerce 15
Lome-Togo.BP/4560
Dear,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into a business relationship with you, I got your contact from a foreign guest book in my earnest search for a reliable and God's fearing person,not only that,but to have you as a good friend. Immediately i got your email address,i prayed over it,later i was convinced by my instict to mail you.
I am Justin Zuma,21 years,the only Son of Late Patrick Zuma,from Zimbabwe but presently in Lome-Togo.My father was a Cocoa and Gold Merchant and made the money which i wish to transfer to your account from the sale of Cocoa and Gold in Harare Capital of Zimbabwe.
He was planning to establish a Cocoa farm in (Lome) Togo before he died.
he died as a result of several gun shot he received from President Robert Mugabe's killers squad while driving in his car with my mother,my mother died instantly but my father died four days later at the hospital in Harare.Before the attacks,President Mugabe had accussed my father of sponsoring his Political Opponent Mr.Morgan Tsvangirai.
At the hospital,he reminded me that he deposited the sum of Eleven Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars (11,500.000.00)with a bank in (Lome)Togo and advised me to contact a foreigner to assist me transfer/invest the fund(Precisely in your country)He gave me all the related Documents so that i can Retrieve the fund from the bank.
I have arrived in Lome-Togo,located the bank and comfirmed the deposit.I have also informed the bank Director of my plan to transfer the fund to a foreign account where i hope to invest it.The bank director for international remittance requested for the foreign account details hence i contacted you.
With due respect,i solicit your assistance to transfer the fund to your account so that we will invest it in any lucrative business in your country.
(1)You will provide the account where the said fund will be transferred.
(2)You will also assist me to invest the fund in any lucrative business of your choice in your country as soon as it is transferred into your account .
I will be willing to offer you a reasonable percentage of the total amount but i do not wish to conclud here without our agreement,you have to mail me stating your wish and idea.Furthermore,i will be sending to you all the related Documents issued to my late father by the bank at the time of deposit.Contact me through my private email address;zuma_jnr@yahoo.co.uk
Regards,
Justin Zuma
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