[geeks] Fw: Investment Pact - off-list SPAM...

[Ken Hansen]

Tee Hee!

I love that name "MRS. COMFORT SOMBONGO"!

Ken
(Sorry for the long post, I almost *never* get these emails... - and, hey,
what if it's true??? 20% of $27.5M ;^P )

----- Original Message -----
From: "Comfort Sombongo" <msombongo at email.com>
To: <khansen at njcc.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 7:19 PM
Subject: Investment Pact


> Compliments,
>
> With a humbled heart I commit myself this day to write and ask for your
benevolence and kind consideration of my plight for assistance. I am making
this
> contact on behalf of my family not minding the consequences but hoping
that you would understand our predicament and come to our aid and assist us.
I
> would also kindly apologize for any inconvenience or embarrassment this
might cause your person, as we neither know each other personally nor have
had
> any previous contact or correspondence.
>
> I am Mrs. Comfort Sombongo, wife of deceased Colonel Bernard Sombongo, who
was Deputy Director of Finance and Budgetary Control of the National
> Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) rebel faction of
Angola. He was execution by the orders of Dr. Jonas Savimbi on the 13th of
April 2000
> after an attempted defection from the UNITA movement. He was assistant to
General Daniel Fuma both of whose activities centered mainly around the
> diamonds flown to Europe, through her connection in the London's De Beers
Central Selling Organisation (CSO) to dealers contracted to UNITA. The
revenue
> from these trades was basically used for the funding of UNITA's
activities.
>
> Considering the ongoing intensified civil war between UNITA and the
government in Angola, my children and I had to relocate to a nearby town in
Namibia in
> May of 2001 after my days of mourning were over through the assistance of
some UN Officials where I am currently. From amongst my late husband's
> confidential documents as I went through them in August this year, I
discovered a Certificate of Deposit with some other documents to the effect
of a set of
> two boxes formally lodged with a Security Firm in Accra Ghana. A
personally handwritten memo by my husband addressed to me indicated that he
had
> ordered the Security Firm to have the boxes moved over to their Agent in a
European country in February 2000 with order to have them released only upon
> presentation of relevant documents.
>
> As indicated in the memo, there is a total of US$27,500,000.00 (Twenty
Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars only) as the real content of
the
> boxes, which was done so as to disguise the real content thereof for
security reasons.
>
> With due respect, I seek your kind assistance in the collection of the
boxes containing U.S. $27.5 million from the Security Company's Agent in
Europe. You
> will be entitled to a 20% percentage of the total sum as both compensation
and also to cover any miscellaneous expenses incurred by you in the course
of
> this transaction and the remaining therefore to be personally managed by
you on my behalf. It is my sincere conviction that you will handle this
transaction
> with absolute confidentiality, maturity and utmost sense of purpose.
>
> I am therefore soliciting your assistance in terms of logistics and
materials to collect the consignment from the Security Firm's Agent in
Europe as the
> consignment have incurred a substantial amount of demurrage. All documents
concerning the consignment are intact with me. Upon an approval response
> from you to assist me in this endeavor, as a fund manager for this fund,
the evacuation process would immediately commence as all machinery are in
place
> for a smooth transaction.
>
> If you are capable and ready in collecting and investing this fund on my
behalf, please contact me immediately through my alternative email address
at
> msombongo at excite.com for immediate action.
>
> Thanks for your anticipated understanding and cooperation.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> MRS. COMFORT SOMBONGO