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Normans_Ghost

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Got HM's truck thingy on AutoTrader.

 

Got an email asking for more details and best price. Answered and got back:

 

HELLO,

 

 

AM OKAY WITH THECONDITION SO THIS HOW HE GOES

Thanks for your mail, as for the price of £24,500i find it quite reasonable, and i'll have my client to go for it, but since i wouldn't be able to come over myself, as i am tied down now with other negotiations, i'll have my client issue you a cheque for £31,500 this will cover the shipping expenses and my agents fee and his travelling expenses, to come over and pick up the car for shippingI don't mind the cheque having to get cleared by the bank before we get the car, but i want to know if i can trust you on sending the remaining balance to my agent through Western union Money Transfer as soon as the cheque is cashed.To start with the procurement of the cheque, i'll need the following information from you:Your full

address (street,city/town,state,Country and post code), your phone number and full name to be written on the cheque/draft.

Thanks again and looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards

Johnni


 

Responded with "many thanks but only accept cash in a brown envelope, thanks"

 

 

Norman Verona, 1989 BDR 220bhp, Mem No 2166, the full story here

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Ooh Richard, haven't seen you around for ages. How's the money business going and is the coffe getting any better in that cafe?

 

Can I have your advice on this:

Dear Friend,

My name is Martins Mumba the the first son of Chief George Mumba a rich black farmer who was recently murdered in a land dispute in Zimbabwe.I am contacting you because of my present need to engage in a mutually beneficial business partnership with a person whom I have not had dealings with before and who do not have any political indignation in my country, Zimbabwe. It is imperative that I inform you that this is not one of those numerous scam emails you might have received in the past being disseminated by some conmen always requiring you to Sign any blank cheque or give out your bank account in order to perpetrate their illicit scams. Please note that I will never involve you in anything that would be detrimental to your person, this transaction is very legitimate and all I need is your partnership.

As a matter of fact, since the death of my father, the Zimbabwe Government under the Leadership of President Robert Mugabe has subjected my family to all sorts of harassment, intimidation and persecution. This is because President Robert Mugabe introduced a new land act that wholly affected the rich white farmers, and my late father was among the few black Zimbabwean rich farmers who refuted his new land act. As a result of my father's alleged support and sympathy for the Zimbabwean opposition party being controlled by the white Minority, he was murdered in cold blood by the agents of the ruling Government of President Robert Mugabe. However, to confirm the real truth about the killing and invasion of the white farmers by the agents of President Mugabe concerning this Zimbabwe land matter, please view the below website http://rhodesian.server101.com/zanu_pf_thugs_attack_whites.html

The motive behind this email to you is that presently I have left behind for me by my late father the sum of US$25 million dollars, which I wish to transfer abroad as discreetly and as expeditiously as possible and I wish with your help to apply this fund towards investment purposes in your country. This money was allocated for the purchase of new Machinery and chemical products for Agro allied farm and for the establishment of new farms in Lesotho and Swaziland and my father was the one in charge of the acquisition. Due to the political mayhem in Zimbabwe, before my father's untimely death, he deposited the $25 million dollars in two trunk boxes with a security company in Netherlands as if he has foresaw the looming danger, And the two trunk boxes were presented to the security company to contain valuable work of arts meant to be transferred to his foreign partner.

Two years after the death of my father, the security company in Netherlands addressed a notification letter to us that the term of deposit agreed with my late father concerning the two trunk boxes containing the $25 million dollars in question, has expired and the consignment must be cleared out of their company. As my father's next of kin, I have written a letter to the security Company concerning the clearing of the consignment but the security company requires the presence of the foreign partner to my late father on whose behalf

The two trunk boxes were deposited.

In view of this, I write to solicit your partnership in this transaction so as to present you to the security company as the foreign partner to my late father on whose behalf the consignments were deposited and thereby clear the funds out of the security company into your account to be used towards investment in your country. For your assistance I propose to give you a commission of 30% and 10% will be reserved for any expenses you may incur on our behalf in the process of actualizing this transaction which you shall deduct immediately the money is wired into your account.

Please, I implore you to exercise the utmost discretion in keeping this matter very confidential; whatever decision you make please feel free to convey this to me immediately at martinsmumba@netscape.net.

Thank you and God bless.

Yours sincerely,

Martins Mumba


 

he seems to be a very nice young man and I feel I can trust him.

 

Your advice please.

 

Norman Verona, 1989 BDR 220bhp, Mem No 2166, the full story here

 

Edited by - nverona on 8 Jan 2005 08:29:12

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