investment scam

I twice got emails from this person asking me to participate an investment. this is something too good to be true. I don't know this person. I read something years ago about this kind of scam. Does anyone have similar experience or hear anything about it?

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Dept. of Mineral and Energy
Pretoria, South Africa.
Direct Tel:
Direct Fax:

Dear friend,

I write to seek your cooperation as my foreign partner and your
assistanceto
enable us to own properties and invest in the stable economy of your
country. I apologize if this mail does not suit your personal or
business
ethics.

My names are Dr. S**** T****. We are making this venture proposal to
you
in strict confidence. As senior civil servants in the South Africa
Government,the
South African civil service laws(Code of Conduct bureau)forbids us to
own
a foreign account. The money we have in our possession is an overdue
payment
bill totaling Fourteen Million, Two Hundred Thousand US Dollar
(US$14,200,000.00)
which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and co-operation
of
a company/ or an individual to receive the said funds, via a reliable
Bank
Account.

If you will like to assist us as a partner, then indicate your interest
after which we shall both discuss on the modalities. All other
information
to facilitate the remittance of the funds will be
revealed to you in due course. For your assistance, your share of the
entire
sum will be 30% of the total sum, 60% for us and 10% will be used to
settle
taxation and other miscellaneous expenses in the course of transferring
the funds to your account.

Please indicate your direct telephone and direct fax number when
replying
this business proposal I will call you when necessary.

If you are not interested, please also indicate so that it will enable
me
to contact other foreign partner with recommendations to carry out this
deal.
I will appreciate if you contact me with my below email address.
*******@rediffmail.com

A swift acknowledgment on the receipt of this mail will be appreciated.

Thank you and God bless you.

Best regards,

Dr. S*****Ｔ*****

一般都是有問題的,我從來不對這類東西動心. 真的想玩的話,還是玩玩自己所在地的房子,這是個LOCAL WIN MARKET. 而且你一定會贏,只要你盯著這市場.

呵呵，對這個東東到沒有動心。看這mail也算是奇文, 想起了以前的傳說，貼出了分享。 今天沒有收到 Dr.ＳＴ的信，大概死心了 ~~

外國人也是悶聲發大財的,他真有錢賺,才不到處發信呢,...

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