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From: "jonathan soko" <js_1family@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: josokoofamily@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:51:17 +0200
Subject: A PLEAD TO SEEK FOR FAMILY ASSISTANCE
A PLEAD TO SEEK FOR FAMILY ASSISTANCEDaer Sir/MadamYou may be suprised to recieve this letter from me since you dont know me in person but please take this letter into consideration,I am MRS FELICIA SOKO ,wife of DAVID SOKO who was mudered in the land dispute in Zimbabwe. I got your contact through my late husband,s friend who is a member of the South African Export Promotion Council (S.E P.C) who was at govenment delegation in your country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable credentials/particulars to us.I plead to seek a confidential co---operation with you to handle a transaction which involves a transfer of fund to a foreign account or salvation church account and i decided to write you,my late husband was among the few black Zimbabwe rich farmers murdered in cold blood by the agents of the ruling government of president Robert Mugabe for his alleged support and sympathy for the Zimbabwean opposition party controlled by the white minority.Before my husband death,on one of his many trips abroad he took me to a very beautiful city in South Africa to deposit some amount of foreign currency with a security company as if he knew they will kill him. The amount was deposited in a box and the contents of consignment were declaredv as personal effects.It was so declared to avoid the temptation of the security company tampering with the contents. Secondly if not so declared the security company could have refused to take the consignment into their custody for safe keeping as they are not a financial institution and so are not authorised by law to keep currency, this money was embarked for the purchase of new mechinery and chemical for farms and the esthablishment of new farms in Lesotho and Swaziland.
This land problem arose when President Mugabe who according to my husband was in desperate bid to hold on to power for life, introduced a new land act. Which equally affected the rich farmers and few black farmers who eventually vehemently comdemed the method adopted by the government. And that resulted in rampant killing, looting and wide scale mob actions.Precisely more than 31(thirty one) people have been killed and as i write to you now, at least 300 white and black families have fled from about 100 raided farms in North-West Zimbabwe. Heads of government from western world especialy Britain and United States of America have voiced their condemnation against Mugabe,s new land reforms act.Subsequently ,South African development community (S.A.D.C) has continuosly supported Mugabe,s new land act. It,s against this unsettled conflict that I and my son currently residing in South Africa have decided to to transfer the amount left behind by my husband into a foreign account or salvation church.I am saddled with the responsbility of seeking an honest individual or an organization with vast experince in business to help us safeguard and invest the amount without the knowledge of my government who are tactically freezing our wealth and South Africa government seems to be playing along with them,
I am faced with the dilemma of investing this amount in South Africa for fear of encountering the same experience in future since both countries have almost same political history.More so,South Africa,s foreign exchange policy does not allow such investment,hence we are seeking for ,,ASYLUM,, please all iwant you to do is to give me your total dedication,respect and confidentiality to my proposal.
You should not fear any risk because i have concluded arrangement to safe guard you in this transaction and we have worked out transfer modalities with the help of top bank official in this country (South Africa) on which you will be detailed with the amount involved only when we received your positive response.Kindly call my son JONATHAN SOKO on telephone /fax No +27 76 800 9090 before sending any any fax message for security reasons, he will let you know the benefiting conditions of your help in this family assistance relationship/transactionGod be with youRegardsMRS FELICIA SOKO
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