Well, it finally happened. I received an e-mail from those folks who have been trying to reach me for years through snail-mail and whose letters I unfortunately lost because, jeez, I REALLY want to help them.
I’m posting a copy in full here, and will attempt to forward to the Attorney General’s office or wherever this is supposed to go (if you have a suggestion, please let me know), but let it serve as a warning. Here then, is the e-mail, with subject heading of “Assist us”
Dear friend,
I wish to begin by way of introduction. I am Kenneth Masuku, the first and only surviving son of late Marc Masuku one of the foremost and rich black farmers in Zimbabwe
recently murdered in the land dispute in my country. Before the death of my father, he had given me the certificate of deposite he used to deposit the sum of US$30.5 million
(Thirty Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) in one of the private security companies in Europe, as family valuables, when he realized the looming dangers in Zimbabwe.
This amount was meant for the purchase of new machineries and chemicals for the farms and also for the establishment of new farms in Swaziland.This land dispute started
when President Robert Mugabe introduced a new land reform, which was particularly targeted at the rich white farmers and a few black farmers (my father included).
This resulted in the gruesome killing of rich farmers (mainly whites) and the unlawful possession of their properties by Mugabe’s war veterans, under the disguise of fighting for
the interest of the country. It is against this background that I fled the country with my family, to the Netherlands where we are currently seeking asylum.
I have decided to seek foreign assistance, as the Netherlands law prohibits asylum seekers from operating bank accounts or involve in financial transaction of any kind, hence
this letter to you. All I need is your trustworthiness to be able to entrust the above said amount and help me with investment opportunities. My family’s survival depends on this money
as we have virtually lost all our assets.
There are two options, firstly, you can choose to accept 15% of the total amount for your assistance or go into partnership for the proper investment of the money in your country.
We shall discuss in detail the modalities involved if you can reach me via this telephone numbers:0031647988965 or via my confidential email account.
I await your reply through the above media, while I implore you to maintain the absolute secrecy required to ensure a safe and hitch free transaction.
I shall furnish you with more details on request.
Yours truly,
Kenneth Masuku
N.B.
My confidential email account: kenneth_masuku@tiscali.co.uk
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I love it: “my confidencial email account.”
If you surf around, there’s an official place you can submit these sorts of letters. It’s because the scam’s so prevalent that I suppose it is a necessity. I’d take a run around the DOJ sites. I was able to find it last time, so presumably you can too.
I sent an e-mail copy off to the Atty. Blumentha’l’s office, but he’s got bigger fish to fry.
Found the U.S. website, but it seemed to want to send me to the FBI. You can bet I didn’t take it further that that.