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From: judith sipho <helpjudith_s60@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <siphofamilys@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 07:18:21 +0000
Subject: FROM MRS JUDITH SIPHO
FROM MRS JUDITH SIPHOJOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.Email: siphofamilys@hotmail.com Dear Sir,
CONFIDENCIAL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable and sincere business partner, I got your contact from internet and I ask if you can be trusted not to break an agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind to contact you and to offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole life depends on. My name is JUDITH SIPHO , the wife of Late Mr. OLIVER SIPHO.A Zimbabwe Man, politician and Farmer. During the current crises against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters of of President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender all farms to his party members and his followers. My Husband is One of the most successful multi-farmers in our country and because he did not support Mugabe`s ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded his farm and burnt everything in the farm, killing him and made away with a lot of items in my husband's farm. Before his death, my husband had deposited with a security company in South Africa the sum of (USD$8.MILLION). (The documents of which he only made me aware of it.) After the death of my husband , I decided to move to Republic of South Africa where I re-located under political asylum asa refugee to seek for foriegn patner overseas that will assist me to move this money out of the security company to HIS country. As an asylum seeker I am not allowed to operate any Bank Account within South Africa .I have agreed to offer you 20% of the total sum for your assistance as soon as the money get`s into your account. I want truth and honest to be our watch word in this transaction and please treat this transaction with strictly confidential for the successful out come of it. All I want you to do is to furnish me with your personal phone and fax numbers and also your private e-mail address for easy and urgent communication. Note that this transaction is 100% Risk free and absolutely confidential. Thanks and God bless you. Sincerely Yours,JUDITH SIPHO
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