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Zimbabwean Heir

Here is one of my personal favorites. Joeseph, along with his fellow prefers to keep this transaction confidential. What I do like about Joe, however, is that he does seem to be concerned the ethical implications, to the extent that he even tells us up fron that we will need to share in the minimal costs with him!

Grade: A-
Comments: Good creativity but needs better proofreading

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Dear Sir,

Difficulties encountered in efforts to establish a business abroad necessitate this search for someone to assist me in securing and investing the sum of USD21,000.000 (twenty one million dollars)inherited from my father's business reserve.

I am the heir of a Zimbabwean family; my father was an agriculturist. He became rich from his old-aged investment in agriculture and later was victimized by President Robert Mugabe's land reform policy. He was assassinated by unknown gunmen for defending his land ownership and siding the minority white farmers.

Before his death, my father foresaw the insecurity of both our lives and property then decided to deposit the above sum with a private finance and security firm in Europe. This money has become the only inherited property of our family since our home was burnt,and the farmlands and machines seized; yet the government and it's loyalists are bent on making life difficult for us. [forget the money, just sell the rights to your story as a movie deal -- I can see James Earl Jones as the agriculturalist]

To summarise this traumatic story, my mother and I have decided to offer 15% of the above sum to anyone who assists us to secure this funds overseas or 25% share for possible help on investing in any reliable venture.

There are however some minimal cost involved in securing the release of this deposit [well, I guess as long as they are minimual it will be ok -- yeah right!] from the present holding company.i do not intend to overburden you with these cost [then how about we just waive them] but you must know beforehand that we will be sharing whatever cost involved in retrieving this deposit and putting it to beneficial use.

if you would want to proceed under these terms,please reply for detailed information. if you do not accept my offer,please in good fate treat with utmost confidentiality . A quick reply with your name,telephone and fax numbers to (joziwa@go.com) for more confidential communication will be highly appreciated.

Sincerely yours,
JOSEPH MUTSONZIWA