Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Mrs Lycee Leonba of Gabon (2007)
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from “leonba@mailbox.co.za”
date Sep 28, 2007 10:04 AM
subject RE: LETTER
FROM: MRS LYCEE LEONBA
EMAIL:leonba@mailbox.co.za
LIBREVILLE GABON
CENTRAL AFRIQUE
My Dear,
With a sincere heart, I write you this proposal in utmost confidentiality, trust and wish to draw your attention to my need for assistance. I am a wife of late DR Nzamba Leonba, who died after three days Major-Operation at Johannesburg General hospital South Africa.
He was a Computer scientist with the Banque des Etats de l’Afrique centrale Gabon branch. I got to know of your courtesy of international business bureau, from one Director in charge of importations and Exportation of Goods and Product. Sequent to my zeal towards the security of my life, son and my husband fund in Foreign Security Firm in South Africa.
I, therefore write to give you break down of my life. My dear, I have two happy days. Happy days are what we worked for. But happy days are not easily worked for. (Tears) my late husband left me with a son. Besides, from the time immemorial, the tendency of human beings to live together; very few normal human beings live in isolation from their kind. My husbands brothers wanted to eliminate my only son and me so that they can claim my husbands wealth.
Therefore consciousness of kind leads to Community living with its own ethos and taboos. Precisely, my husband had a secret Account Worth of $2.8 Million (TWO MILLION EIGHT HURNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) with the Foreign Security Firm, which I now demanded your ability/assistance to put up claims of receiving the fund on your side for safety. Since the money has to be claimed by a non-co naissance. Dear, I’m down with imperialism and tribal division, no sporadically act nor pious revolution can resolve my present problems and condition. Nothing will be of avail except one from overseas assisted me and claim this fund through the help of my husband Attorney in South Africa.
For now I depend on your help to support and sustain my only son and myself. But tomorrow may be well on the way. Flying low or high in life depends in God. My humble duty now is to pray that my wound shall be healed if ever you will never fail me in the longer days and longer nights.
I wait for your kind response,
Yours sincerely,
MRS LYCEE LEONBA
NB: PLEASE IN RETURN MAIL, SEND YOUR PHONE NUMBER FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION WITH MY SON.
