From: "Dr. D. Tweedie" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dantweedie01@webmail.co.za>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:05:07 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL

I am Dr .D. Tweedie, the Director of Project Implementation with co-operation of four other top officials; we have in our possession, an overdue payment in US funds. I have an obscured business suggestion. You may be apprehensive because we have not met. The said funds represent certain percentage of the contract value executed on behalf of my Ministry by foreign contracting firms during the preparations for the last football world cup which took place in my country, which we the officials over-invoiced to the amount of US$42,700,000.00 (Forty Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). Though the actual contract cost has been paid to the original contractor, leaving the excess balance unclaimed.
The Government of the Republic of South Africa believe that private investment in general, and foreign direct investment in particular, are the real engines for sustainable economic development, for which reason it has continued to encouraged investment in the key growth -oriented sector with sincere determination to pay foreign contractors all debts owed to them, so as to continue to enjoy close relationship, and a mutually beneficial co-operation with foreign governments and non-governmental financial agencies, We are seeking your assistance as the beneficiary of the unclaimed funds, since we are not allowed to operate a foreign account as civil servants (Government Official's )
Should you be interested please send me your, private phone and fax number and current residential address. I will give you details of the whole operation. Your earliest response to this mail will be appreciated
D.Tweedie