Winnie Mandela has a deal for you

Today I received another one of those scam emails offering a too-good-to-be-true deal, but this one came with a new twist: it's from Winnie Mandela! Of course this begs all kinds of responses. I immediately wondered if her goon squad was responsible for death of the anonymous "foreign customer" who died with his entire family. I thought I'd share the email here, since I found it so funny:

Subject line: URGENT ASSITANT

PRIVATE AND URGENT.

I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer
of a hugh sum of money from a deceased account. Though
I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make
any one apprehensive and worried,but I am assuring you
that all will be well at the end of the day. We
decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION;

We discovered an abandoned sum of US$20,000,000.00
(Twenty Million Dollars) in an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customers who died along with his
entire family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin
or relations has come forward to lay claims to this
money as the heir.

We cannot release the fund from his account unless
someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon
this discovery, we now seek your permission to have
you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all
documentations will be carefully worked out by us for
the funds (US$20,000,000.00)to be released in your
favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.

It may interest you to note that we have secured from
the probate an order of madamus to locate any of
deceased beneficiaries.Please acknowledge receipt of
this message in acceptance of our mutual business
endeavour by furnishing me with the following;

1. Beneficiary name and address.
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.

These requirements will enable us file a letter of
claim to the appropriate departments for necessary
approvals in your favour before the transfer can be
made. We shall be compensating you with 2 Million
Dollars on final conclusion of this project, while the
rest shall be for us.

Your share stays with you while the rest shall be for
us for investment purposes.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take
undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you,
I await your urgent


Regards,MRS WINNE MANDELA.

 

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