Dear Kind hearted friend, Please pardon me if I have intruded on your privacy. Though it may be surprising to you to have received this mail encompassing an investment proposal from me since you do not know me personally, however, I plead that you should give my case a hearing.
I am the first son of a late rich black farmer from Zimbabwe. My late father, Mr. Marcus Tekere was murdered as a result of his opposition to the much heralded politically motivated land dispute between white farmers and the Zimbabwean government headed by the much dreaded President Robert Mugabe. As led by my instinct, I decided to contact you through the usefulness of the internet via e-mail as it is the only means I can contact somebody since I am cutting off ties with Zimbabwe for security and safety reasons. However, I apologize if this is not acceptable to you. The purpose of this letter like I did mention above is to seek your most needed assistance in a business venture as a partner in receiving the deposited consignment containing US$18.5 million made by my late father as a consignment to an exclusively managed private security company based in the Netherlands. The total funds were proceeds from our business foreign accounts in banks, landed properties and selling of our shares in major companies. These funds when retrieved was to be used to start off a new business, purchase of lands, new machines and chemicals for establishment of new farms in Botswana or anywhere of my choice. After the death of my father, I was continually threatened to abandon my inheritance and surrender everything to the government of Zimbabwe. I resisted for awhile, but when the danger became unbearable and I survived two murder attempts, I fled Zimbabwe to the Netherlands where I am seeking political asylum. In fact my decision to come here to seek asylum was based on the fact that the securities company is located here in the Netherlands. I need to transfer this money to a foreign account and invest part of it in any other good business besides farmlands since the law of the Netherlands prohibits a refugee (asylum seeker) to open any bank account or to be involved in any financial transaction. This is why I am seeking a genuine and reliable partner whose account this money can be transferred, hence this proposal to you. You have to understand that this is a genuine proposal which will mutually benefit us both. My future is based on the success of transaction between my party and the company and so, I urge you to take it very serious if you are interested. If you accept to assist me, the company will be legally informed of you representing me and all documentation procedure will commence with the assistance of my contact person in the Security Company. For your assistance, a princely percentage of 25% of the funds have been mapped out as your commission. 70% of it is going to be the share coming to me and the rest of my family while the remaining 5% shall be set aside to take care of all expenses that might be incurred along the line by our two parties. I am ready to give a little more percentage on the condition that this transaction will be concluded in no distance time. As a sign of my open mindedness, I am ready also to entrust you with the investment of our own share in your country. Please, kindly maintain absolute confidentiality in the course of the transaction for security reasons as I am still been haunted. I do not expect to hear from you if you are not interested, but if you are, kindly send your response with your phone number inclusive for further verbal communication with you. I hope the proposal is self explanatory and understandable. I look forward to your reply and co-operation, and I thank you in advance as I anticipate your cooperation. Yours sincerely, Austin Tekere
