Beware E-mail for help

United States
May 12, 2008 11:02pm CST
From: Mrs. Rosemary Border Gezi Tel: +27-83- 671-5777 Email: familybensongezi@gmail.com Johannesburg , South Africa ATTN: SIR/MADAM, WE ARE REQUESTING FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE Please do not be embarrassed to receive this mail especially since we dont know each other or meet in person before. I was opportune to have your esteemed particulars from South Africa Information Exchange (S.A.I.E.), in my search for a reliable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involve a transfer of fund to a foreign account. My concern has centered on how I could transfer my late husbands money amounting to US$25.5 Million (Twenty-Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) out of South Africa for a better investment abroad. I am Mrs. Rosemary Border Gezi, the wife of late Mr. Border Gezi, My husband was the former Zimbabwean Minister for youth, gender and Employment creation. While alive, my husband stood against seizure of white farms and the distribution of it to the blacks without compensation to the white owners. Because of my husband's sincerity, he was killed by a planned motor accident along Harare-Masvingo Road near Mvuma Province of Zimbabwe. Before his untimely death, my husband told me some few weeks earlier that he kept one diplomatic box with a private finance and Security Company in Johannesburg , South Africa which contains US$25.5 Million (Twenty-Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). He warned that he only declared the contents of the diplomatic box to the Security Company as a family treasure/ values, with insurance values of the said amount. He also told me that he used the name of our son Benson Border Gezi as the beneficiary of this money being his only child. The original document that shows the Deed of lodge, Proof of Deposit, and Depository Agreement between my late husband and the Management of the Security Company was kept with the reputable South African Lawyer. Because of South African Financial Law, which bared asylum seeker/ refugee like us to operate an account that exceed US$1000 and fear of the amount involved, I decided to write to you to seek your help for this money to be transferred into your companys or personal bank account for our future investment in your country. I am presently sick with HIGH BLOOD PRESURE, and was admitted in the hospital for treatment. So, I will please ask you call my son as soon as you receive this letter for more details concerning this transfer transaction. Please give us your direct phone and fax numbers, which will allow an easy communication before or after transferring the money into your bank account. I want to assure you also that this transaction is 100% risk free. As for your reward for this kind assistance, we are ready to offer you 20% of the total sum while 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred in the course of the transaction. Please find below how I want you to help me and my son. 1). YOU ARE REQUIRED TO COME DOWN TO SOUTH AFRICA TO HELP US CLEAR THE OUT-STANDING DEMURRAGE FROM THE SECURITY COMPANY. 2). UPON YOUR ARRIVAL HERE IN SOUTH AFRICA , YOU WILL OPEN A NON-RESIDENT DOLLAR ACCOUNT IN YOUR NAME WHERE THE TOTAL MONEY WILL BE DEPOSITED FIRST FOR ONWARD TRANSFER TO YOUR OVERSEAS ACCOUNT. 3). WE ALSO NEED YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT COPY, THAT WILL ENABLE US MAKE THE CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE IN YOUR NAME AS THE BENEFICIARY OF THIS FUND,WHICH WILL SEND TO YOU AND TO ENABLE THE SECURITY COMPANY RELEASE THE BOX TO US AS SOON AS YOU ARE HERE FOR COMPLETION. 4). YOUR FULL NAMES AND RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 5). PLEASE WHAT IS YOUR AGE AND OCCUPATION? THIS IS TO KNOW IF YOU ARE CAPABLE TO HANDLE THIS TRANSACTION FOR US, AS WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOOSE THIS MONEY. 6). ALL YOUR EXPENSES WILL BE GIVING BACK TO YOU AS SOON AS WE CLEAR THE BOX UPON YOUR ARRIVAL. If you are willing to help me and my son, please try as soon as possible to get back to me through the above private telephone and e-mail. Please, I do hope that this money will be safe when finally transferred into your bank account. I do hope of establishing a good relationship with you and your family after this transaction. God bless you and your family while waiting to hear from you urgently. Yours Sincerely, Mrs. Rosemary Border Gezi & Son (Benson Border Gezi) (For the family) Email: familybensongezi@gmail.com Tel: +27-83- 671-5777 NB/ PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE WILL NEVER LEAVE TO HAVE PEACE FOR KILLING MY HUSBAND. THAT IS MY PRAYER TODAY IN THE HOSPITAL
4 responses
@BUSSY1979 (1283)
• United States
13 May 08
yep, this one is an email scam for sure. I haven't checked it out, but, I can already tell that it is by the way they talk in the email. I wouldn't full with it. I'd delete the message for sure and spam it to your email company. That's what I do. I send them to my spam box, and I've set my spam box to delete all the spams immediately when they come in so that way I won't have to. LOL D@MN SPAMMERS!
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• Philippines
13 May 08
Same here. I think one may not finish the whole story crap, to know that this is fraud! Hope the spammer will get the same medicine that he deserves.
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@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
13 May 08
Most of these type emails never get to my inbox, most are sent direstly to spam mail.. When and if I do see one, I delete it immediately.. I don't know how stupid people think that we are.. I was taught, while growing up, that "If something sounds too good to be true, then is usually is".. So this is too good to be true and I delete all of them..
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@jimbelle (485)
• Philippines
13 May 08
I have been receiving a lot of these emails. They are a big scam. They come in several email addresses with contact numbers. Baware also of emails telling you that you won using you email addresses in the lottery. The come in several forms too. Everyday I receive about 5 of these. I just delete them.
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@rockvixen (894)
• United States
13 May 08
OMG! You know, this email has been around. I once got something very similar and it was just like this one. I know it's a scam, I mean no one would write to a total stranger and deposit that money in a total strangers account. The requirments are a bit unusual, first she says it's a free transaction then she says you have to come down to Africa for it to work out. Total crap is what that is. I would not fall for it.