Stupid Punts!

I received this email four times today, clearly Mr Ikell is very keen to do business with me.

The subject line was rather confusing, "I Need Your Assistant", I was not aware that I had anyone in my employ.

Disregarding Mr Ikell's failure to master basic grammar, he moves swiftly to the point.

His father is dead, he left $15M which resides in a bank account in Holland.

He wants me to access the account, and needs my details to move this "100% risk free" venture forward.

Sorry chum, try elsewhere.

My name is EDWARDS IKELL, the eldest son of Dr. ENAGUA IKELL from Zimbabwe. This
letter might come as a surprise to you about where I got your contact address
and how I knew you. I got your address from the net, and i decided to contact
you for an assistant, which I do hope you will take this matter into
consideration.
During the current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters of
our
President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms for his party members
and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender all their farms to
his party members and his followers.
My father was one of the biggest farmers in our country and because he strongly
opposed Mugabe's ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded my father's farm and burnt
everything in the farm, killing my father and made away with a lot of items in
my father's farm.
Before his death, my father had deposited with one Security Company in SOUTH
AFRICA, the sum of US$15.5 (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars). This was money he planned to use in buying new machinery and to set up
a new farm in Swaziland. After the death of my father, l decided to escape to
Netherlands because of continued harassment from Mugabe and his supporters.
As the senior man in the Family, l decided to contact you to assist me since
I was able to moved this money out of SOUTH AFRICA to Holland for safe keeping
although the courier comapny were not aware of the content of the suite case
because it was convey as personal valuable goods,
Presently the Fund is already in Holland, while I need to seek political asylum
to secure my staying here and we are not allowed to operate any bank account
within Netherlands. For your role in this transaction, me and my family have
agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum for your assistance, 5% will be mapped
out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of this transaction and
70% will be for me and my family to invest in your country.
All I want you to do is to help me finish this transaction and the same time
help me to invest the money into a lucrative business in your country Please get
back to me if you can be of assistance and l would want our correspondence to
be via email as most phone lines of asylums seekers are presently bugged by
the Government.
l expect your confidentiality and your prompt respond to this email so as to
proceed.
Note that this transaction is 100% risk free. You should however treat this
transaction with absolute confidentiality.please forward your phone/fax numbers
and your address to my private Email address at
Thanks and God bless.
Best regards,
MR. EDWARDS IKELL