Stupid Punts!

Today's scam email contains all the usual ingredients:

-A widow

-A box of money

-The desire to transfer the money to an overseas account

As with all of these scams, there is in fact no money; just a conman waiting to relieve you of your bank details.

The writer offers me two choices with regard to working with her. My preferred option is not listed, that being not to have anything to do with her.

Neither should you, if you receive one of these scam mails.

FROM: MRS ROSEMARY MOYO
TEL:

HELLO,GOOD DAY.

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

You might be surprised to receive this letter from me since you don?t know me personally. I am MRS ROSEMARY MOYO the wife of late MR. JOSEPH MOYO who was murdered by the Zimbabwean war veterans and irate black people. I am writing this letter from Harare, Zimbabwe, to solicit for your special assistance to my family shattered by a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party, President ROBERT MUGABE.

Because of land and farmland crisis in Zimbabwe the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to disposed the land being occupied by the white farmers. This action led to killing of some members of opposition party including my husband who did not support this ill-fated action. But before the death of my husband, he anticipated some dangers and so he smuggled out the sum of US$25.5 million dollars (Twenty five million, five Hundred Thousand united state dollars) to South Africa and deposited it in a Security Company with the intention of using it for the purchase of farm machinery and chemicals for agricultural Purpose in South Africa and establishment of a new farm in Swaziland.

This money was deposited in a box as family valuables to avoid much demurrage in the Security Company. On the 29 January 2003 the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed my husband to death and my second son of 28yrs. Since then they have been terrorizing my son BENJAMINE but he managed to escape to neighboring country South Africa as a
political asylum seeker (refugee).

His position in South Africa does not permit him to open an account or to operate any business. That is why I want this fund to be transferred in your account so that you will
assist him to invest the money in your country. If you accept to assist us, all I want from you is to arrange and come down to Johannesburg South Africa so that you can help him to open a non-resident bank account in your name which will aid us in transferring the money into your nominating account overseas.

I have two options for you, firstly, you can choose to have certain percentage of the money for nominating your account in this transaction or we can go into partnership with you for the proper profitable investment of the money in your country whichever the option you want feel free to notify him. He will then furnish you with every detail you need to know.

We have also mapped out 5% of the total sum for any expenses that might be incurred during the time of this transaction. If you do not prefer a partnership, we are willing to give you 25% of the money while the remaining 70% will remain for my family, if you are really capable and willing to assist us please contact him immediately in South Africa with this telephone + , Finally please treat this matter as urgent as possible. Thanks for you?re mutual co-operation. I?m expecting you be soonest and urgent response.

Best Regards,

MRS ROSEMARY MOYO.
(FOR THE FAMILY