Mrs. Susan Shabangu, South African Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy
and
Joseph "Uncle Joe" Stalin, Former Premier of the Soviet Union
team up to move some serious kopeks out of South Africa.
and introducing -- Edward Morrison, Mrs. S.'s 'diplomat'
Scam-o-disclaimer: There is a real Susan Shabangu. She really is a Minister of Minerals of Energy. This is a scammer pretending to be her. But you knew that. Joseph Stalin is dead. We think.
SUSAN SHABANGU
From: "susan shabang" <susanshabang@latinmail.com>
To: susanshabang@latinmail.com
Subject: COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:23:57 +0100 (CET)
MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from smtp.latinmail.com ([62.37.236.185])
From: Mrs. Susan Shabangu.
ATTN:My good Friend,
Greetings to you,With warm heart I offer my friendship, and
greetings,and I hope this mail meets you in good time. However strange
or surprising this contact might seem to you as we have not met
personally or had any dealings in the past, I humbly ask that you take
due consideration of its importance and the immense benefit it will be
to you.
After careful consideration with my children, we resolved to contact you
for your most needed assistance in this manner. I duly apologize for
infringing on your privacy, if this contact is not acceptable to you, as
I make this proposal to you as a person of integrity.
First and foremost I wish to introduce myself properly to you. My name
is Mrs. Susan Shabangu, mother of three and the Deputy Minister of
Minerals and Energy of The Republic of South Africa for seven years
runningYou can go through my profile
www.gov.za/gol/gcis_profile.jsp?id=1066 } I will now give you a general
overview of the situation. When I was sworn in as Deputy Minister of
Minerals and Energy in 1996, with my influence, my husband Mr.Ndelebe
Shabangu a very successful businessman was awarded several contracts in
my ministry and had direct dealings with foreign investors in this
field. Due to my political status, I was not involved in my husband's
business which was very vast and successful.
My beloved husband died whilst on an official trip to Trinidad and
Tobago in February 2001. When my husband died, I was contacted as next
of kin by a private security firm in Europe to come forth with the
Certificate of Deposit and claim a safety deposit my husband has in
their Vault in his name. At that time, my children and I did not have an
idea where the Certificate might be. We then instructed the security
firm to continue holding the safety deposit until further instructions
from me. Whilst preparing for the second remembrance of my beloved
husband, I was going through his library collection and to my
astonishment I discovered a ,Certificate of Deposit for the safety
deposit with this private security firm, and other documents relating to
the safety deposit in a book.
The safety deposit which is a trunk, is stocked with hard currency (US
Dollars)totalling $18,500,000 which was generated from cash payments
from his business associates in the diamond trade. Though I knew my late
husband was in the diamond business, I did not have the knowledge that
he moved funds in cash. This has came as a shock to me and my children,
and we have decided to have this fund invested immediately in commercial
and residential properties abroad as well as profitable ventures, as any
member of my family cannot hold such a huge amount in our name due to my
political status, hence we sincerely propose to you to render us your
most needed assistance in this regard.If you agree to render us your
assistance, your role in this project will be to act on my behalf as a
trustee to receive the safety deposit containing the funds from the
Security firm. Though I believe this transaction should be based on
mutuality, my family's interest will be protected by a family associate,
who is a diplomat. He is now aware of the safety deposit, and I have
informed him that I am locating one of my husband's business associates
(you) to handle the funds and invest on our behalf, as he might be
opposed to our decision if he found out that I barely know you. The part
of services the diplomat is required to render is to assist you in
claiming the consignments from the terminal of the security company and
to set up a transit domiciliary account in your name in one of the prime
bank he has contacts to carry out the exercise through the back door.
The purpose of the account is to enable you deposit the funds for
further transfer into your nominated bank For your reliable assistance,
we are offering you 15 %($2,775,000) of the funds. I thank you in
advance as we anticipate your assistance in enabling us achieve this
goal. On hearing from you, I will forward your contact to the diplomat
who will be representing us, and also give you his contact for both of
you to communicate and proceed with the transaction. He will be working
with you for a mutual conclusion of the process and I look forward to a
long lasting business relationship with you. As you may understand, due
to my sensitive position in the present government,
it is not safe to communicate with me via phone or fax. This is why I
have communicated with you,please all your corespondence should be
forwarded to my private email address,susanshabangu22@latinmail.com
otherwise i might not be able to read your mail and I will like us to
keep this way, for the safety of this transaction. Wheither or not you
are interested in assisting us. This will enable us make alternative
plans, in the event of non-interest on your part.
With warm regards,
MRS. SUSAN SHABANGU
Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy South Africa
JOSEPH STALIN
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005
Mrs. Shabangu,
I'm pretty sure that this was sent to me by mistake.
Sincerely,
J.V. Stalin
SUSAN SHABANGU
Sent : Monday, January 24, 2005 10:08 AM
Subject : It was not a mistake.
Dear J.V. Stalin
Thanks very much for your mail.please l want to let you know that it was
not a mistake.l contacted you for a business which l expect you to
respond as required so that we can proceed with the transaction.
As it is now l will wait for your approval before l let you know the
full details of the whole transaction and how it will go.Please include
your mobile contact number.
Count it as God's divine arrangements for both of us to transact
business together as l will use my good office to open more good
opporunity for you in my country.
l will stop so far untill l hear from you.
Thanks once again.
Regards
Mrs Susan Shabangu.
JOSEPH STALIN
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005
Mrs. Shabangu,
$2,775,000 is a lot of money just to help you do a transfer. Do I have
to kill anyone or anything like that? I don't necessarily have a problem
with that, I just want to know what my exact involvement is going to be.
J.V. Stalin
SUSAN SHABANGU
Sent : Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:24 PM
Subject : Reply back.
Dear J.V. Stalin,
Thanks for your courage to reply.l want to let you know that lam not a
killer either do l have intention of killing.all l want is business and
family relationship.if l understand you mail very well you are not
paying me rather lam paying for your contribution and your assistance.If
you feel is too much for you then l will reduce the percentage.For now
we have no direction based on your last mail to me.
l will still wait for your confirmation and your approval for us to
carry on with this transaction.As soon as l hear from then we can start
working on the process.l will now give you all the details you need to
know.
Please in your next mail kindly give me your private phone number so
that l can forward it to my family diplomat.
Thanks
Regards
Mrs Susan Shanbangu.
[The phone number is a Moscow Russian-language hotline number to call to
find out where your car has been towed to. Got to come up with a new
number one of these days, these guys are probably getting tired of calls
from scammers by now, especially those looking for Joseph Stalin...]
JOSEPH STALIN
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Susan,
I hope you don't mind me using your first name. You seem like a very
pleasant lady and if you ever have a chance to visit here you'll be
treated like one of the family. Please feel free to call me Uncle Joe.
As long as you can assure me that we're not doing anything too illegal I
have no objection in helping you. Neither do I have any problem with the
percentage you have offered; $2,775,000 is a lot of kopeks.
I should give you a bit of information about myself. I'm an
ex-government official here and I live quite comfortably on the pension
and housing that the government provides me. One of the reasons I
decided to help you is that I do miss the interaction with other
government officials and look forward to a statesman-to-stateswoman
relationship. Sometime I must tell you about the old Warsaw Pact days.
You'll really get a chuckle.
My number here at the kremlin is 7-095-964-8597. It goes through the
kremlin operator so just have your family diplomat ask for me and
they'll transfer the call. By the way, what's with having a 'family'
diplomat? Even I never had one of those. Good idea if you can get one
though.
I will await your further instructions.
Uncle Joe
SUSAN SHABANGU
Sent : Wednesday, January 26, 2005 7:44 PM
To : j_dzhugash@xxxxx.xxx
Subject : Respond back
Dear Uncle Joe,
Thanks for your good reply.lam so impress with the content of your
mailit has given me opportunity to trust you on this transaction.lam
looking forward to a day we all will seat down and then talk about
government,the good and the ugly.Without waisting much time l want to
assure you that this is legal business as the money belongs to my late
husband.
The only thing you will do for me is not to let my family diplomat know
that you have not met my late husband before as he may oppose my choice
of you.I will only let him know that you are one of his business
associate and that you want to assist me get the fund out.
lam also glad that you have been in Government and you are aware of the
procedures,so that is more reason l needed your assistance.l want to be
carefull about my position.Having said all this let me quickly let you
know things you need to know to enable us proceed.You are aware that the
fund in question is in a security vault in Europe( London )and you need
to be there for claiming.
My family diplomat will be on hand to assist you open a non residential
account were the money will be deposited for onward transfer to your
account back home,that is after claiming.Before l link you up with him l
want to make sure that two of us has agreed on one thing.First l will
like you to confirm to me your readness to be in London for conclussion
of the transaction.As soon as l hear from you then he will call you for
more details on what you will do.
Futhermore it is important you note that one thing is to have money but
the most important thing is to make good use of it.l believe you have
plan on how we are going to invest this fund so that both family and
other socity can benefit from it.
Please get back to me as soon as possible.
Thanks very much for your cooperation.
Regards
Mrs Susan Shabangu.
JOSEPH STALIN
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005
Tvarish Susan,
I can't express my happiness to be dealing with you in this business.
This sounds like the sort of thing that comes along once in a lifetime.
I am pretty sure I can arrange to be in London to complete this project,
although I will have to see about getting a passport I suppose. I have
an old friend in the British government whom I haven't spoken to since a
vacation we all took in Yalta some time ago. This would give me a chance
to look old Winston up and see how he's getting on these days. Crusty
old bugger, but we had some great times together.
By all means, have your family diplomat give me a call or send me an
email. I've got some ideas on investments that I'll put down on paper
one of these days so you can start considering them.
I await further instructions.
Hui Tyebya (Your Friend)
Uncle Joe
[Hui Tyebya - F*** you, in Russian]
SUSAN SHABANGU
Subj: l wait for your mail.
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2005 10:37 AM
Dear Uncle Joe,
lam glad to recieve your mail. lam too sure this transaction is going to bring together good relationship.The content of your mail was well noted.Based on your confirmation to travel to London for this important transaction l will quickly get through to my family Diplomat.l will explain to him that one of my late Husband's friend will come on my behalf to claim the fund.
He will call you any time but meanwhile give me little time to obtain some information from the security firm.Again you have to go for your passport and then tell me your poosible date of traveling.
l will forward your contact to the diplomat.Please incase he asked just tell him that you are my late husband friend.That you do trade Diamond business with him before you got the news of his death through me.
l hope you confirm to me your poosible date of leaving to London.
Thanks
l wait your reply.
Regards
Mrs Susan Shabangu.
JOSEPH STALIN
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005
Tvarish Susan,
So good to hear from you so soon.
I plan to jump on the metro this morning and head over to the passport
office and start the paperwork. I should have some idea later today as
to how long it will take to get a new one. I'm supposed to have a car
and driver to run me around but it didn't show up again this morning.
Either that damn Lada has broken down again or the driver, Igor, has
been on another one of his benders..
I will remember what you said about telling your family diplomat that
your husband and I worked together in the diamond trade. I guess I
should read up on diamonds a little bit so at least I'll sound like I
know what I'm talking about if he asks any questions. I'm not even sure
what a carrot is.
Ok, I'll let you know as soon as possible how long it's going to take to
get the passport.
Hui Tyebya,
Uncle Joe
[Gonna head out to the dacha for some well-deserved R&R...]
SUSAN SHABANGU
Sent : Friday, January 28, 2005 8:12 PM
Subject : Update me.
Dear Uncle Joe,
Greetings to you once again.This is to know if you have heard from Mr
Habu Smith my family Diplomat because l have already told him about
you.Please update me.Again if it will be possible for you to send me
your picture to enable me know you very well.
You can find my picture in my first mail were my website profile was
include in my content. Please kindly update me.
Thanks
Regards
Mrs Susan Shabangu.
SUSAN SHABANGU
Sent : Monday, January 31, 2005 10:58 AM
Subject : Reply me urgently.
Dear Uncle Joe,
Greetings to you.this to know if you have heard from the Mr Habu Smith
the diplomat.l need to hear from you.Again when are you hoping to travel
as to conclude on this project.
Thanks
Mrs Susan Shabangu.
SUSAN SHABANGU
Sent : Wednesday, February 2, 2005 9:49 AM
Subject : Confirm to me.
Dear Uncle Joe,
Greetings to you.This is to inform you that the last time l recieved
mail from the diplomat he told me he will be going to somewhere and if
he comes back he will contact you.l dont know if he has done so because
he has not send any message to me.Please confirm to me.Again my dear
uncle could you please scan and send to me your picture so that l will
know more.l hope to see your face.
Thanks
Regards
Mrs Susan Shabangu.
SUSAN SHABANGU
Sent : Thursday, February 3, 2005 2:09 PM
Subject : Update report
Dear Uncle Joe,
How are you doing?is my pleasure to report to you that l recieved mail
from the diplomat and he told me that he tried to contact you vai the
number you gave but the recieveing end keeping on speaking russian
language which makes it difficult for the diplomat to get to you.He
requested you official open up communication with the security company
then he can now come in hence you are comming for the clearance.So in my
reply to him l asked him to send the details of the contact and who you
can contact so that l can send it to you.meanwhile let me know from you
about your passport issue.
l will send the information as soon as l hear from the diplomat.
Thanks
Regards
Mrs Susan Shabangu.
SUSAN SHABANGU
Sent : Friday, February 4, 2005 7:32 PM
Subject : Reply urgently.
Dear Uncle Joe,
Greetings to you.lam suprise that uptill now lam yet to hear from you.l
have already told you that the diplomat has been trying to reach
you.please respond urgently so that we can fercilitate this project.
l hope you respond as demanded.
Thanks
Regards
Mrs Susan Shabangu.
[Demanded?? You don't DEMAND things of Joseph Stalin, but I'll let it
ride for the moment...]
JOSEPH STALIN
Sent: Saturday, February 5, 2005
Tvarish Susan,
My apologies for not writing sooner but as you are no doubt aware we've
had the heaviest snowfall here in Moscow that anyone can remember. I
went out to my dacha just before it started and by the time I decided to
head back the roads had become impassable. My idiot driver Igor got a
snootful of vodka before we tried to come back to the city and got the
Lada stuck just a click or two down the road. What a nightmare!
Anyhow, I just got back last night and I'm still getting my bearings
again. I've had no contact with the diplomat. I checked with the
switchboard to see if I had any messages but they said nyet. If the
diplomat tried to call and couldn't get through I apologize. Please ask
him to speak Russian next time.
The passport office is closed today but I'll get over there Monday to
see how much longer it's going to take. Let me know if there anything
else I can do to further fercilitate this project.