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From: justice thabo <justicethabo1146@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <familybox245@yahoo.ca>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:45:33 +0000
Subject:
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From: Mr. Justice Thabo Florida Johannesburg, South Africa Tel: +27-83-747-3558 Alternative email: [thabofamily101@yahoo.com) PLS SAVE THE DYING SOUL OF MY FAMILY Attention: I am Mr. Justice Thabo, a Zimbabwean and the son of Mr. Williams Thabo, a renowned Farmer in Bulawayo Town in Zimbabwe. I write on behalf of the Thabo's family, to request if you are available and have the facility to assist my family undertake some capital investment in your country. it will be necessary to inform you that the {US$20.5M}Twenty million five hundred thousand united states dollars)intended for pitalization of the investments are presently in the custody of a private security company here in Johannesburg, South Africa which we require to transfer out of South Africa immediately for the said investment purposes. You may have heard of the present crisis in Zimbabwe orchestrated by the unprecedented Land use Act of the government of Robert Mugabe in which this governmen!
t has arbitrarily reclaimed and acquired all farm lands owned by the white farmers in the country. This has caused a historical displacement of the white folks who are known to be the country's main farmers.The ensuing struggles and strife have brought about the killing and imprisonment of thousands of these white farm owners by the ruthless government forces designated to enforce this new order My father, in his good will, joined the international community in condemning and speaking out against this uncivilized and bizarre policy of Robert Mugabe s government. As a result of my father firm and upright position on this matter, a group of assailants suspected to be government sympathizers attached and killed my father in cold blood in February 2004 Seeing that the entire Thabo's family was in serious threat of extinction, we immediately fled Zimbabwe to South Africa, where we have sojourned ever since as refugee under the United Nations. Prior however, to my father untimely!
death he had sensing the rising hostilities, sold some of his farm la
nds including those of some of his white farmer associates who had transferred ownership of their farm lands to my father to forestall the government acquiring them. My father secretly sent the proceeds {US$20.5m} Twenty million five hundred thousand United States dollars from sales of the farm lands to South Africa. And deposited same in a metal box with a private security company here in Johannesburg. Having seen your contact information in my search for a reliable partner we now contact you for immediate assistance in lifting the funds out of South Africa for the said investments. It will interest you also to note that we have all this while articulated the needful arrangements through which the transfer will be affected. To come to terms with you regarding your reward for helping us actualize this matter, we have agreed to offer you 25% of the total money ,5% will be mapped out for the expenses we may incur during this transaction then 70% will be for me and my family. !
It is equally important to state here that considering the nature of this matter, we will required that it is handled most discreetly. Kindly contact me using the above particulars upon receipt of this letter for execution details and other necessary discussion. please do me a favour by contacting me with my family email address:[thabofamily101@yahoo.com] or by my family given number above. In anticipation of your trusted and genuine assistance I remain, Yours sincerely Mr. Justice Thabo (for the family) PLEASE YOU CAN READ ABOUT PROBLEMS IN ZIMBABWE FROM THE LINKS BELOW. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm
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