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That sounds extremely logical. Does that mean you can confirm the birth of the deceased or the beginning of his death?

No matter, most people won’t understand what he means.

On a funnier note: does anybody know what he means by “Have A Green Day”?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Kweku Appiah
Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Subject: BUSINESS
To: …

Dear friend,

It’s Just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am a Banker by Profession from Burkina Faso In West Africa and currently holding the Post Of Debt recovery manager in our Bank.
I have the opportunity of transfering the left over funds
($30Million) of one of my Bank’s client who died along with his entire family in Kenya Plane Crash 2003.You Can Confirm The Genesis of the deceased Death .

You can view this site to know more.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Hence, I am inviting you for a business deal where this fund can be shared between us in the ratio of 40/50 / 10% for any incurable expenses that will come during the transfer, If you agree to my business proposal.
Further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your mail. Have A Green Day.
Yours,
MR KWEKU APPIAH.

Kweku Appiah, 419 scam

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A short message offering 24.5 million US Dollars from Hong Kong.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Patrick Chan <pchan@info.net>
Date: Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Subject: Respond
To: undisclosed-recipients

I am Patrick Chan I work with HANG SENG BANK, HONG KONG.I have a Business Proposal of Twenty four million,Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars for you to handle with me from my bank,if you are interested please send me your full names,privatephone/fax and current residential address and finally after that I shall provide you with more details.
Kind Regards
Patrick Chan

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This story was originally told about 5 years ago as Robert Mugabe his land grab forcing farmers to hand over their land to the state. Due to evictions and violence against farmers they mostly left the country.

The rest of the remaining farmers have lost their land in the violence which occurred after the disputed national vote which was held this year. Looking at the situation in Zimbabwe today, it does not seem likely that Robert Mugabe will be willing to give over power to anyone in the near future.

The chaos in Zimbabwe is an ideal background to a scam e-mail like this one. It sounds plausible.

I have had contact with people who have fallen for similar Zimbabwe stories in the past. They all fell for it, because they wanted to give a poor soul a helping hand. Morally there is nothing to say against that.

It’s just that the victims took the story at face value and got taken for a whole lot of cash because they wanted to help

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: FRANKLYN LOCOMBO &lt;franklynlocombo2@gmail.com&gt;
Date: Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL
To:

Mr. FRANKLYN LOCOMBO
Johannesburg. South Africa,
Tel: +27- 74-1855-920
Email: franklynlocombo@gmail.com

FAMILY REQUEST FOR URGENT HELP AND BUSINESS ASSISTANCE

ATTN: DIRECTOR/CEO

Greetings!

My name is Mr. FRANKLYN LOCOMBO {Jr.}, the elder son of Mr. FRANKLYN LOCOMBOof Zimbabwe. It might be a surprise to you where I got your contact address; I got your contact address from the South African chambers of commerce. During the current crisis against the farmers of Zimbabwe by the supporters of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms and the few black farmers who are against his party in our country, he ordered all the white and black farmers who are against his system of leadership to surrender their farms to his party members and their followers.

My father was one of the best farmers in the country and knowing that he did not support the president’s political ideology, the president supporters invaded my father’s farm burnt down everything, killed him and confiscated all his investments. After the death of my father, my mother and I with my younger brother decided to move out of Zimbabwe for the safety of our lives. We took along with us the money my father kept in the safe in my mother’s house, which amounted to the sum of US$45 Million United States Dollars to the Republic of South Africa. The funds are presently being kept away in the secret vaults of a private security firm based here in Johannesburg South Africa.

My mother and I have decided to contact any reliable overseas firm/person who could assist us to transfer this money out of The Republic of South Africa, because we as asylum seeker here in South Africa cannot open an account of any sort, this is why we need you to travel down to south Africa to open a non-resident bank account in your name where the funds will be deposited before on-ward transfer to your nominated overseas account. If my proposition is considered, for assisting us to transfer this money to your country, we will offer you 20% of the total fund, 80% will be for me and my family to invest in your country under your supervision. All expenses incurred will be deducted from the 80%. For detailed information, you can contact me.

Best Regards,

FRANKLYN LOCOMBO (Jr)

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