Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
South Africa Scam (2006)
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From: Mr. Ebede Edward mmnr_info8@virgilio.it
Reply-To: ebedward@jmail.co.za
Date: Aug 13, 2006 1:47 AM
Subject: A Reliable Person
Good day,
I am Mr. Ebede Edward, a Native of Cape Town and, Director of Project implementation, South Africa ministry of Mines and Natural Resources.
First and foremost, I do have to apologize using this medium to contact you about this business. It is due to the prompt access reposed on the medium.
I was the Chairman of the panel committee set up to over-haul and audit the Ministry (Mining and Natural Resources) account, which was just concluded. During the process, we discovered unclaimed contract sum of Fourteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars in the Ministry Escrow Account.
When we discovered this fund, so we decided to carry out a concrete finding in details about the source of the funds. It was after this finding, we discovered that the funds resulted from a contract proceeds that was long ago executed by a foreign contractor, Mr. Clifford Anderson, and while he was yet to claim the contract entitlements from the Ministry, he was reported dead on a plane crash when he visited his home country.
Ever since then nobody as a relative or friend to late Mr. Clifford Anderson has come forward to claim the fund. Right now, the fund is forgotten and abandoned in the Ministry’s Escrow Account unclaimed. And in accordance with the South Africa Contractual Law, if contract entitlement is not claimed within a stipulated time, it will therefore be forfeited to the Government.
Therefore we decided to source for God fearing and a reliable person who we can use as our frontier to claim the fund from the Escrow Account of the Ministry by acting as a relative/ representative to late Mr. Clifford Anderson. That is the reason we are contacting you.
We have made all the concrete arrangement on how the fund can be transferred to your bank account without any possible implications from the Government of my Country and that of your Country too. We have the principle access to all the necessary documentation /approval, which would legalize the transaction for the possible remittance of the Fund to any foreign bank account that you will provide for this business without any hiccup.
After the completion of the transaction, we propose to give you Twenty percent of the Fourteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars after the completion of the transaction.
I wait in anticipation of your positive response.
Thank you,
Mr.Ebede Edward.
