Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Tanzania Uncut Diamonds: Business Proposal (2006)
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From: Victor Mrema mremavictor@katamail.com
Date: Apr 11, 2006 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: Business Proposal (Tanzania Uncut Diamonds)
24 THEMI HILL
ARUSHA
TANZANIA
11-04-06
Dear Friend,
Re: Urgent Business Proposal
With warm heart I offer my friendship and greetings, and I hope this email meets you in good time. However, surprising this contact might seems to you as we have not met personally before, I humbly ask that you take due consideration of its importance and immense benefit.
First and foremost I wish to introduce myself, my name are Victor Mrema Chief Security Officer with a leading Mining Corporation in Tanzania. I am seeking your confidentiality as my oversea partner to receive a consignment containing uncut Diamond worth U$750.000 and physical cash totally U$10.5million (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand U$ Dollars). I will disclose further information on how i came about this funds and diamonds once i receive your offer of assistance.
I have also made a secured arrangement with a colleague’s friend working with an International Courier services in Dares Salaam Tanzania who will arrange packaging of the consignment with a diplomatic cover in order to protect the content.
Upon delivery of the consignments, the diamond shall be sold off on the current market value. I am proposing 30% for you, 70% for myself and my colleague friend working with the courier company. This deal itself is 100% safe, as I will be using a known courier company. On your part the courier company will deliver the boxes to your destination, and you will ensure the safety of the consignment before my arrival. I shall invest my share in real estate properties, which you will assist me before returning back to Tanzania.
If i can trust you on this transaction and you do show me 100% transparency and honesty, I can guarantee you; there will be more business deal from this source to come in the near future.
Please treat this transaction with utmost confidentiality.
Yours Faithfully,
Victor Mrema
