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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • mrsmackintosh@excite.com
  • mrsmalcomsh5@hotmail.com
  • mrsmackintosh@excite.com
  • mrsmackintosh@excite.com

Fraud email example:

From: "mrsmalcom shengi mackintosh" <mrsmalcomsh@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsmackintosh@excite.com
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:17:20 +0000
Subject: ASSISTANCE/INVESTMENT.

MRS Mackintosh Malcom S.A.
Zimbabwe
TEL:27-82-79-51208
EMAIL:mrsmackintosh@excite.com

PLEASE WRITE TO ME ON THIS BOTH
EMAIL;mrsmalcomsh5@hotmail.com
EMAIL:mrsmackintosh@excite.com



ASSISTANCE/INVESTMENT.

DEAR Friend,

You may be surprised to receive this letter since you don't know me
personally,I am Mrs. MRS MACKINTOSH MALCOM SHENGI .A, the wife of late
MR.Malcom Kenneth Mackintosh who was murdered in the land dispute in
Zimbabwe.I am writing from Zimbabwe.

I got your address from the internet through the consultancy directory
during my search for a reliable and honest person to transactthis business
with.I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by
a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party-
president RobertMugabe.

Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly
sponsored the war veterans and some irrate party members to disposess the
land being occupied by white farmers.This action has led to the killing of
some members of opposition party including my husband(Malcom Kenneth
Mackintosh), For more information see thissite
www.zimbabwesituation.com/farmilist.html, page 2 number 776 428 .

But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he
deposited the sum ofUS$15.4m (Fifteen million four hundered Thousand United
States Dollars)in the name of our only son KENNETH JR ,with the help of
reputable security company in SOUTH AFRICA with the intention of using it to
open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our
neighbouring country (Swaziland)after his university education.


On the 29th of June 2000, the war veterans and some supporters of
(ZANU-PF)ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him(my husband) to
death. Since then, they have been terrorizing my only son, KENNETH
MACKKINTOSH, but he managed to escape to a neighbouring country, South
Africa as a political asylum seeker(refugee).But his position in South
Africa does not permit him to open an account or run any huge financial
business.

Subsequently, the South African development community (SADC) has
continuously supported Mugabe's new land reform act. It is against this
background that my son have decided to transfer my husband's money into a
foreign account.

That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so
that you will assist him to invest it in your country. Hence,if you agree to
assist us, we will offer you 20% of the money for your assistance, 10% will
be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction,
while 70% will be for our family investment in your country through your
assistance. I need your urgent and confidential response.

Best regards,
MRS Mackintosh Malcom .S.
FOR THE FAMILY

Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send to you all
the informations that will empower your good self in finalizing the
transaction with the security company in SOUTH AFRICA I will also send to
you the agreement that will protect both interest. And also further
information about yourself is necessary for i can not play on this.

You can as well read more about the crises in my country and about this
situation on the

following.sites:www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/08/12/violence.zimbabwe/
www.zimbabwesituation.com/farmilist.html,www.zimbabwesituation.com,
www.newzimbabwe.com/

Waiting for your prompt and positive response ..
CALL MY SON ON THIS NUMBER 27-82-795-1208.OR
EMAIL:mrsmackintosh@excite.com

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