ZH African Love Letters

I get e-mail propositions from Africa all the time. They are so charming and lovely it seemed only natural to make a blog of them.

Thursday, June 26, 2003

Subject: THE RECENT LAGOS BANK EXPLOSION.
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 01:53:37 -0800
From: "DR JAMES EZEIFE"

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL


From the Desk of: Dr. James Ezeife
EKO INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC, NIGERIA .


ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR/CEO,


Sir/MAdaam,

Permit me to introduce myself to you. My name is Dr. James Ezeife, Manager with Eko international bank Plc, Lagos-Nigeria.

I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person/company to handle a confidential transaction on behalf of my Colleagues and myself.As a matter of fact, I got your information from the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry/Nigerian Export Promotion Council.

Proposition
A German Mr. Wolfgang Schinister, 66 years of age and a prosperous oil merchant had in our Bank the sum of US$35.5m in a domiciliary account. He named his wife, Mrs. Helga Schinister as the next of kin. Unfortunately, two of them were killed in the recent plane crash involving concord AF4590 in Gonesse, France. Efforts
had been made by the management of my Bank through the German Embassy in Lagos to contact any of the deceased children but to no avail, as we were made to understand that the couple had no children. Given the skeletal information available to the Bank, it has so far been impossible to reach any of the relatives. The option left for the Bank management is to declare the deceased account dormant and revert the funds to trading on behalf of and in the interest of the Bank.

In Nigeria, and almost all other parts of African continent,when Banks acquire funds such as that of Mr.Wolfgang Schinister,they are required by law to donate 30% of the funds on acquisation to The Trust Fund For Arms And Amunitions. Arms and amunitions purchased with funds from the Trust Fund are used to further enhance the course of war in Africa and invariably turbulence of some sort in
the world in general.

It is therefore in order to avoid/avert and discourage this negative development that my Colleagues and I now seek your assistance to have you stand as a distant relative to Mr. and Mrs. Wolfgang Schinister, so that the funds would be released to you. All documents and proofs to enable you get the funds will be carefully packaged once we receive your consent on this proposal.

May I assured you that this Transaction is 100% safe and risk-free, as we have taken care of all necessary modalities to ensure a hitch-free transaction.

I have the authority of my partners involved in this transaction to propose that should you be willing to assist us in the transaction your share would be 20% of the US$35.5 million, 70% for us and 10% for taxation and other miscellaneous expenses that may be incured in this transaction.

I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me.

Best Regards.

Dr. James Ezeife

Thursday, June 19, 2003

From: Mrs Fatima Kwami
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 15:09:24 -0700 (PDT)

Dear,

Forgive my indignation if this message to you as a surprise and if it might offend you without your prior consent and writing trough this channel.

I got your information in a business directory from The Togolaise chamber of commerce and industries when I was searching for a reliable, honest and trustworthy person to entrust this business with.I was simply inspired and motivated to pick your contact from the many names and list in the directory.After discussing my view and your profile with my son,we were very much satisfied and decided to contact you immediately for this mutual business relationship.

I am Mrs Fatima Kwami,an Ivorian widow with only one son Danyo Kwami.My husband Gen Benson Kwami was the chief security officer to the ousted president Henry Kona Bedie of the republic of Cote Divoire during the over throw of 24th december 1999.My husband was among the people that were killed by the rebellious military.Before his death,the former president (Bedie) gave him the sum of $30.000,000.00 (Thirty million US dollar) for defense and equipment.The bill was in hundred dollars denomination staked in a big white metallic trunk box when he got the information that the militaries were planning to overthrow him.

Immediately my husband was confirmed dead, I made away with this box with my only son to Lome, Republic of Togo been a peaceful and safe country so that we cannot be reached easily by Mr Bedie.Right now, the money is in a safe place, I deposited it with one of the best security
company in Togo for safe keeping without the security company knowing the real content of the box because I declare the content as family jewelry.Now, I am using this opportunity to seek your assistance to move this money to your country, to be invested on behalf of my only son. For this business to be concluded immediately, all you need to do is to arrange to meet with me and my son where this box is been lodged, after clearing from the security company, you will have to open an account in your name, pay in the whole money, and then transferring it to your chosen account.

We cannot do that on our own because we have a big political name and we dont have an account elsewhere, moreover we dont have any business to cover-up such fund, that is why we needed your assistance. I am ready to offer you 15% of the total sum, then you have to help me to invest my own part of the fund in a good profitable business in your country.Note: A solid agreement must be written and duly signed by you and I together with our lawyers, to assure me that you will not confiscate the fund on reaching your account.

Reply and confirm your wiliness to assist us through this email address : mrsfatimak@post.com ,for the confidentiality of this transaction.You will send your mailing address,phone and fax number on your first mail to me if you are willing to assist for e
asy comunication.

BEST REGARD
MRS FATIMA KWAMI

From: abdusalem@go.com
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:48:32 +0200

SIR/MADAM,
Before i go further with this mail to your person, i wish to introduce myself to you, my name is AHMED ABDUSALEM,am a citizen of IRAQ residing in Baghadad,with my wife and four kids,As you should be aware of the situation in my country we are absulately in choas and anarchy in the course of this Anglo-American invasion of my country,me and my family now have some preciouse artifacts that are in two metal boxes lodge with a security company in europe.i am looking for a reliable person who can make claime to them on my behalf since it is difficult for me to leave the country now.i would be greatful to handover the documents of claim to you and disscuse the percentage sharing so that you can go to europe to take possession of the boxes.
your assistance to this effect would be highly appreciated,please kindly treat this with utmost secrecy and confidential.For security reason lets all our conversation be by email for now.Email me;abdusalem@sify.com

Regards.
AHMED ABDUSALEM.

From: "612156475875"
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:41:50 +0200

DEAR SIR,

It is my humble pleasure to write you this important
letter, irrespective of the fact that we have not met
for the first time or known each before.

However I was able to get your contact through an
international profile in my earnest search for a
reliable and trust worthy person, that can handle this
transaction with me, the urgency of this matter at
hand is what prompted me to make this contact with
you.

Before I go further, I introduce my humble self,I am
Dada Damani . S. Momoh, a sierra -leonean Nationality,
son of LATE CHIEF SWARANDEEN MOMOH, the former
Minister of Gold and Diamond. In the past years my
country has been involved in a very horrible and
bloody war in which so many lives and properties were
destroyed and many atrocies were committed against
humanity.

My father was killed during the War, because of his
support for the rebels movement in Sierra Leone, He
was untill his death the paramount minister of diamond
and gold mining co-operation of Sierra Leone. He was
opportuned to syphone huge sum of money from the
co-operation and on the process of funding ethnic
Militia Forces, however , the truth and evidence for
the untold matter that saw his death was as sacrifice
for the oration of peace in our country.

Before his death, in one of our visits to him in
detention , he disclosed to us of an existence of
USD$45m in sealed boxes, which he kept in underground
vault of our villa in Free-Town. After the war I
hurried to the villa as I am lucky to survive with my
junior sister, as my parents, elder brothers and a
senior sister were killed in the war, I still found
the boxes intact and decided to move out of our
country immediately with my sister down to Accra,
Republic of Ghana with the consignment. Which I
deposited with a security company.

We are presently in Accra, Republic of Ghana with my
late father's relatives, although the war has ended,
but I considered it unsafe to go back to our country
since we have lost parents, brothers & sisters and our
properties confiscated by Sierra Leone goverment and
our present condition of suffering here is unbearable.

I am not exposed with outside world and have no
knowledge in business for an investment, for this
reason, I am soliciting for your assistance to please
make a residential arrangement for us in your country
and to help us invest this money wisely to our future
living as we have nothing else left than these
consignments.

I have the believe in you by the Grace of God, I am
ready to go into negotiation/agreement with you on
terms of sharing the cash after it has been properly
saved into your account.

I await your urgent response through my e-mail address
below to enable me give you further information on the
development of things and how we should go about it.

Thanks & remain blessed.

Yours faithfully,

Dada Damani S. S. Momoh

From: baba t ahmed
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 22:17:18 -0400
FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER BABA AHMED
LLB. (HONS) MA. DIPL. LAW
TELEPHONE:234-80-33299850

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

Hello dear,

my name is barrister baba ahmed, i am a private
attorney and i have a client who is interested in investing some good money with you.

My client is a very important and prominent person who
has mandated me to contact you for a very important business transaction. My client is by name mrs. Maryam abacha and she is the wife of the late military president of my country.

Her husband late general sanni abacha made a lot of
money through oil proceeds during his tenure in
office as military president of the federal republic of nigeria. Infact, it was discovered after his death
that he was worth well over $4.5 Billion united states
dollars and some of this money was retrieved after he
died while some was recovered from officials that
served under him during his reign as military president of the federal republic of nigeria.

The truth of this case is that my client despite the
problem she is going through now with the present
regime, she still has a lot of money which was syphoned to europe, america and asia by her husband the late military president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the federal republic of nigeria which is unknown to this present government of nigeria.And she intends to invest this funds outside our country.

What my client needs from you now is for you to claim these funds which was conceled in a trunk box and laballed as "family treasures" under the custody of a diplomatic mission in china by assisting her to pay for the customs clearance and handling charges as required by the diplomatic mission for the immediate release of the consignment to you as the bonafide owner of the consignment (funds) on her behalf for the possible investment of the funds with your expertise hence she and all the entire members of her family were banned from travelling outside the country.But mind you, all the money in her possession can not leave at once because she needs to build confidence and trust in someone who would not expose her plan to remit and possibly invest with you.

So she has agreed that i should make arrangement with you by assisting to pay for the handling charges and custom clearance for the claim of the trunk box from the diplomats in china which contains us$25m (twenty-five million united states dollars) and you are free to negotiate your mode of compensation even as she intends to invest the money in your country.

Please, do not hesitate to indicate your view of this
request by contacting me immediately you receive this
mail, so that the necessary arrangements to obtain the documents which will bear your name to empower you for the claims will be made immediately.

Due to the present situation of my client, i would be
happy if this request can be kept secret. I would
also like to note that there is no risk involved as
all necessary arrangment towards the successful
claiming of the consignment have been perfected and concluded and it is 100%risk free.

I hope my client would be happy investing with you.
Please kindly send down your reply strictly to this
very e-mail address.Or better still you can
conveniently call me for more briefing with the above
telephone numbers.

Nb:please i would like you to enclose in your reply
your private telephone,fax and cellular numbers for a
speedy and easy communication.

Thanks and remain blessed,

baba ahmed(esq)

From: kinsleyjj3
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:55:43 +0200

From: Kinsley and Joy Johnson
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

Dear one,

REQUEST FOR AN ASSISTANCE

It my pleasure to write you after much consideration
since I can not be able to see you face to face at
first. Being the only son of my father, late MR.
Peter Johnson from Zulu in Republic of South Africa
(S.A) I am 21 years of age and my little sister Joy
Johnson who is 16 years old.

We know this proposal letter may come to you as a
surprise considereing the fact that you have not had
any formal acquaintance before . But all the same we
would want you for the sake of God to give this an
immediate attention in view of the fact that the
security of our living and possession is at stake.

Our father was a limited liability Cocoa Merchant in
South Africa before his untimely death after his
business trip to Abidjan he was assassinated with my
mother by unknown assassins. Which my mother died
instantly, but my father died after five days in the
hospital,on that faithful afternoon ,we didn't know
that my father was going to leave us after we had lost
my mother.


Before he gave up to ghost, it was if he knew he was
going to died.( may his soul rest in perfect peace ) he disclosed to me that he made a deposit a sum of US$10. M (TEN MILLION DOLLARS) in Bank here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire .

That the money was meant from cocoa business he wanted
to invest in Abidjan , Cote d'Ivoire. according to my late father he deposited the money with Bank in Abidjan, but he single handed us
all the relelvant documents and instructed us to seek
for a life time investment abroad. Now we have
succeeded in locating the bank in Abidjan, Cote
d'Ivoire and also confirmed the deposit funds with
most honesty and confidentiality.

Pls we wish if you can help us in the following
regards

a)To help invest the money into a lucrative business.

b)To assist my sister Joy get a college admission to
further her education.

c)To assist us in getting residential permits for
formal and comfortable stay in your country after the
money must have been transferred into the account you
will provide.

Now we are solicting for your assistance to help us lift
this money out from Abidjan to your account abroad so
then we should invest it in any lucrative business in
your country. Because this is our only hope in life.

Please this transaction is strictly confidential.

Thanks for your kind attention and mutual
understanding.

Best regards,

Kinsley & Joy Johnson

From: MPETI L. KABILA (Jnr)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:55:32 +0100

Your contact was availed to me by the chamber of
Commerce. It was given to me because of my diplomatic
Status as I did not disclose the actual reasons for
Which I sought your contact. But I was
Assured that you are reputable and trustworthy if you
Will be of assistance.
I am Laurent Mpeti Kabila (Jnr) the second son of
Late President LAURENT DESIRE KABILA the immediate
Past president of the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO in
Africa who was murdered by his opposition through his
Personal bodyguards in his bedroom on Tuesday 16th January, 2001.
I have the privilege of being mandated by my father colleagues
To seek your immediate and urgent co-operation to receive into
Your bank account the sum of US $10,000,000(ten million Dollars)
And some thousands carats of Diamond. Presently, I am with the
Nederland's government seeking for political asylum.
This money and treasures was lodged in a vault with a
Security firm in the Nederland's.
SOURCES OF DIAMONDS AND FUND
In August 2000, my father as a defense minister and president
Has a meeting with his cabinet and army chief about the defense budget
For 2000 to 2001 which was US $700m. So he directed one of his best
Friend. Frederic Kibasa Maliba who was a minister of
mines and a political party leader known as the Union Sacree de,
I opposition radicale et ses allies (USORAL) to buy arms
With US $200m on 5th January 2001; for him to finalized the arm s
Deal, my father was murdered. f.K. Maliba (FKM) and I have
Decided to keep the money with a foreigner after which he will use it
To contest
For the political election. In spite of all this we have resolved to
Present your or your company for the firm to pay it into your
Nominated account the above sum and diamonds. This transaction
Should be finalized within seven (7) working days and for your
Co-operation and partnership, we have unanimously agreed that you
Will be entitled to 5.5% of the
Money when successfully receives it in your account. The nature of your
Business is not relevant to the successful execution of this
Transaction what we require is your total co-operation and
Commitment to ensure 100% risk-free transaction at both ends and to
Protect the persons
Involved in this transaction, strict confidence and utmost
Secrecy is required even after the successful conclusion of this
Transaction. If this
Proposal is acceptable to you; kindly provide me with your personal
Telephone and fax through my E-mail box for immediate
Commencement of the transaction.
All correspondence is for the attention of my counsel:
I count on your honor to keep my secret, SECRET.
Looking forward for your urgent reply Thanks.
Best Regards
MPETI L. KABILA (Jnr)