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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 zuma <jameszuma114@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 12:13:52 +0000
Subject: INFORMATION
FROM: DAVID ZUMA TEL: +27-76171-2227 JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA. TRANSFER OF US$24.5MILLION (CONFIDENTIAL) You will be surprised to receive this letter since you don't know me personally, but do treat this request as a call from somebody in dire need of your kind assistance. For the purpose of introduction, I am DAVID ZUMA , the eldest son of DR EDWARD ZUMA , who was murdered with other whites in the land dispute violence in Zimbabwe. In my keen interest to invest in your country, I got your contact through the South African Information Exchange (S.A.I.E) here in Johannesburg, South Africa, and decided to write for an assistance. My Late Father was among the few black Zimbabwean rich farmers murdered in cold blood by the KILLER SQUARD of the ruling government of President Robert Mugabe for his alleged support and sympathy for the Zimbabwean Opposition Party controlled by whites and this crises 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 member nations. Before his death, he had taken me to Johannesburg where he deposited the sum of US$24.5Million (Twenty Four Million Five 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 and Finance Company. This was informed as not to allow the company management have the knowledge of the real content of the box for obvious safety reasons. This money was earmarked for the purchase of machinery 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 Acts 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 war veteran and some political thugs. Precisely, more than one hundred and seven (107) people have been killed and many others maimed for life in the past and up till July 2002, BBC and CNN have reported of more killings in the farm-land violence. Heads of governments from the Western world, especially Britain and United States of America have voiced their condemnation over Mugabe's obnoxious land acts. Subsequently the Southern African Development Community (S.A.D.I.C.) has continuously supported Mugabe's Land Reform Acts. It is against this background that I and my family who are currently staying in South Africa have desired 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 the Zimbabwean Government who have tactically frozen my family's wealth. 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 Department of Home Affairs to grant us asylum status. At the moment we are in dilemma to the fiscal laws inhabiting South African 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 on 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 how to get an honesty 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 as quickly as possible and give me your confidential phone and fax numbers for more information. Please respond to enable me know my decision. Yours sincerely, DAVID ZUMA (FOR THE FAMILY)
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