The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Mrs. Nelly Zuma Chikande <samuel_dele@orange.nl> Reply-To:     nelly191@jmail.co.za Subject:     HELP......... Date:     Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:19:15 +0200 (Mon, 21:19 EDT) FROM: Mrs. Nelly Zuma Chikande LOUIS BOTHA AVE JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA. TEL: +27 78 84 33077 Email:nelly191@jmail.co.za                  URGENT ASSISTANCE/INVESTMENT Dear Sir/Madam,      With due respect, trust and humility, I write to you this proposal which I believe would be of great interest to you. My message could be strange but real if you pay attention to it. I find your contact while I was doing a private research on the Internet for a reliable and capable foreign partner. I am writing to you on behalf of ZUMA’S family to enquire if you can assist my humble family undertakes some capital investment in your country. I am Mrs. Nelly Zuma Chikande, the WIFE of Late James Zuma Chikande, who was the treasurer of the Zimbabwe Farmer’s co-operation. My husband was among the few black farmers that were murdered in cold blood by PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE’S Administration during the land dispute that just happened in Zimbabwe. Prior to my husband untimely death, he had seen the rising hostilities by PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE’S government in my country Zimbabwe. It may interest you to know that during my Husband’s regime as the treasurer of the farmer’s co-operation, he realized some reasonable amount of money from various deals that he successfully executed. As a result of his death and uncontrollable crisis in my Zimbabwe, I together with my family members decided to seek asylum in South Africa where my husband had deposited US$20.5Million (TWENTY MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS). This money was meant for the purchase of new agricultural machineries and chemicals meant to be distributed to farms and establishment of new farms in Swaziland and Lesotho. We now want to use this money for investment in your country since we do not have anybody to assist us. Following the above, I am asking for your urgent assistance to transfer this money out of South Africa using very confidential and reliable means.  However, this money was safely kept in a Security Company here in Johannesburg-South Africa before his death under disguise as precious items and nobody has any slight knowledge of what is inside the box deposited with the Security Company. In other words, if you consider yourself honest, trustworthy and willing to assist us, the only thing that you will do at this time is to come to South Africa and assume the beneficiary of the deposited amount. Please respond by this email address ( nellyzuma@hotmail.com ) or through the above phone number to enable my son provide you with detailed I look forward hearing from you upon receipt of this mail. Best regard. Mrs. Nelly Zuma Chikande (For and On behalf of my family)   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine. Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary / commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust / diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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