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With American troops being stationed in Iraq now in it’s 6th year, it would seem that stories like this would be long gone. It would be unlikely that such sums of loot would still be hidden away or undiscovered.

But then, the occupation has been the basis of many e-mails since the invasion.

This is no different. It is a classic 419 scam.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Capt. Cole Morgan <morganc_cole@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:47 AM
Subject: GOD BLESS YOU
To:

Dear Friend,

Good day and compliments, I know this letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine my future and continued existence. Please allow me to introduce myself.I am Capt. Cole Morgan, a US Marine Capt. serving in the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment which Patrols the Anbar province, Iraq.

I am desperately in need of assistance and I have summoned up courage to contact you. I am presently in Iraq and I found your contact particulars in an address journal. I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of $12,570,000 (Twelve million Five Hundred and Seventy Thousand USD) to the States or any safe country of your choice, as far as I can be assured that it will be safe in your care until I complete my service here. This is no stolen money and there are no dangers involved.

SOURCE OF MONEY:
Some money in various currencies was discovered and concealed in barrels with piles of weapons and ammunition at a location near one of Saddam Hussein’s old Presidential Palaces during a rescue operation and it was agreed by all party present that the money be shared amongst us.This might appear as an illegal thing to do but I tell you what? No compensation can make up for the risks we have taken with our lives in this hell hole. The above figure was given to me as my share and to conceal this kind of money became a problem for me, so with the help of a German contact working with the UN here(his office enjoys some immunity)I was able to get the package out to a safe location entirely out of trouble spot.He does not know the real contents of the package as he believes that it belongs to an American who died in an air raid, before giving up trusted me to hand over the package to his close relative.

I have now found a secured way of getting the package out of Iraq for you to pick up. I do not know for how long I will remain here as I have been lucky to have survived 2 suicide bomb attacks by Pure Divine intervention. This and other reasons put into consideration have prompted me to reach out for help. If it might be of interest to you then Endeavour to contact me and we would work out the necessary formalities but i pray that you are discreet about this mutually benefiting relationship.

Contact me via my private box: capt.morgancole@gmail.com . so that I can
furnish you with more details.
Respectfully,

Capt. Cole Morgan
United States Marine Corps. IRAQ.

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To be honest if a real medical student sent me a message like this, I would suggest they consider another profession, like a road sweeper, for example.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: JELO <RPORDON@infinito.it>
Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:08 AM
Subject: HAPPY TO MEET YOUR CONTACT ONLINE AND NEED YOUR HELP,please call me at 00229 97689290
To: 10@orange.fr

My name is Miss Quien Jelo from Sierra leone and medical.dear I,m interesting to be your friend after seeing your details here on the Internet as i want to relocate to your area for living and invest of my inheritance fund.

I know you will be surprise to receive this message from complete stranger from Sierra Leone you have never seen or meet or discuss with but it is a great pleasure writting and knowing you over here.
I know there is no violent and crisis in your country and that lead to my contact with you as i want to reside there.

I have contacted you before and no response or reply from you and wondering if you got early message i sent to you, please let me know if you receive this one again it by writting to my email below.

All i need from you is to help us get the total money transfered into your account for investment once we change the beneficiary in your name and favour as the person we authorise and empower for the clearance .
I am going to write to you and explain to you in details once i hear back from you.

I NEED YOUR DIRECT PHONE TO ENABLE ME CALL YOU AND DISCUSS WITH YOU AS THIS MESSAGE IS BEYOUND EXCHANGING ONLY EMAIL MESSAGE BECAUSE THE FUND IS THE ONLY HOPE OF MY LIFE AND LIVING AFTER THE DEATH OF MY PARENT IN WAR IN IVORY COAST.

Can we talk about it.you can send me through my e-mail

please call me for us to discuss in details  00229-97689290

MY DATA:

MY NAME: MISS QUIEN JELO
MY AGE: 25 YERARS
MY OCCUPATION: MEDICAL STUDENT BEFORE THE WAR STARTED AND IN LEVEL 2
MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE AND NO BABY YET
NATIONALITY: SIERRA LEONE

MY FATHERS DATA:

HIS NAME: MR. PATEL JELO
OCCUPATION: EXPORTER OF GOLD DURST AND HE DEPOSITED LARGE QUANTITY OF GOLD DURST FOR ME IN THE INSITUTION HERE WHICH WORTH AND WILL DISCUSS ON THAT ONCE OUR FUND IS CLEARED AND TRANSFER INTO YOUR ACCOUNT FOR INVESTMENT AS ARRANGED.
AGE BEFORE HIS DEATH : 52

NATIONALITY: SIERRA LEONE |
and can i have your private email address to enable me send my photos and datas id and the deposit document for your perusal and understanding and please make sure you keep this to yourself as this money is the only hope of my life and living and am trusting and confiding in you after seeing your details on the Internet.

All i need is your honesty

Jelo

This one is made to look as though it officially comes from the Nigerian Central Bank from the Boss himself. As with all fraud e-mails this one is sent through a freemail address, so it can’t be come from the Bank itself. And, I am sure that Professor Soludo wouldn’t send it through a private e-mail account.

So it can only be a Scam e-mail right?

Why would an employee of the Foundation De France use the private e-mail address of someone called “Hassan Riaz” to send this message?

I reckon Hassan either made a mistake or someone has hijacked his e-mail account.

Personally, I like to believe the he made a mistake.

Felix sent an empty e-mail, but added the massage as a text file. A bit unusual and there is no real reason why he should do this, so I just estimate he has no real pc experience.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: felix__ekene01 <felix__ekene01@o2.pl>
Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Subject: CONTACT MY SECRETARY FOR YOUR Cheque
To: undisclosed-recipients

CONTACT MY SECRETARY FOR YOUR Cheque

Here’s the text message:

My Dear friend

How are you today together with your family,i thank God almighty for his infinity mercy upon my life for latter making this business to work out sucessfull.

I’m happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund transferred under the cooperation of the new partner from LUXMBURG . Presently i’m in LUXMBURG for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. meanwhile,i didn’t forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.

Out of my sincere heart i have deceided to show gratuted to you and i have signed a Cheque on your behalf for your compasation,now contact my secretary in Cotonou, Republic of Benin,his name is Mr. James Mike Romack and his email address is (james_mike200882@yahoo.fr) in and ask him to send you the total amount of $1.5,M Cheque which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist
me in this matter.and instruct him where to send the amount to you.I appreciated your efforts to assist that time despite that you later disappointed me.

so feel free and get in touch to my secretary Mr James Mike Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy together after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment, i am very busy here because of the investment projects which i and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Mr.James Mike and he will send the Cheque to you without any delay.

Best Regards,Thank you
and may God Bless.
Mr,felix ekene

CONTACT MY SECRETARY FOR YOUR Cheque

This is a favorite ploy that the Africans use. Of course, they are targeting people who have already been involved with any of the crooks running 419 types of fraud. It doesn’t really matter with whom they have been in contact with, these crooks just adapt their story to accommodate anyone contacting them.

Of course, getting the money involves paying fees. I don’t think I have to say that you never get any money from them, do I?

I often ask myself if these e-mails are deliberately written as though they come from an 8 year old or if the writer is just not able to write in the English language.

In this e-mail it appears as though this fellow cannot write, despite the fact that he is using words and phrases which are not usual in everyday language. Of course, if he really was a Government Minister he would have a better command of English than is demonstrated here.

Tags: 419Scam, Money Transfer Fraud, Tasa Williams

Occasionally I get messages which are a little out of the norm. This is one of them.

This morning I received a message from Yahoo 360 from someone with the profile Charity Help. The profile photo shows a person who is obviously in hospital. Of course I instantly recognised this as a typical 419 scam, but the funny thing is the fellow in the photo has been posted here in 2005 suffering from Cancer. Then he was named Achmed Abdul-Azeez.

So it looks as though this poor fellow’s photos are being misused for these Cancer stories.

In this one he is called Mr. Salli and here is the message

Dear Friend,

Although this medium (Internet) has been greatly
abused,I choose to reach you through it because it still
remains the fastest,surest and most secured medium of
communication,besides it is my only means of
communication due to my condition.Also, this
correspondence is purely private, and it should be
treated as such,As you read this, I don t want you to feel
sorry for me,because,I know everyone will die

someday.My name is Mr. R Salli a merchant in Dubai,
in the U.A.E.I have been diagnosed with Esophageal
cancer. It has defiled all forms
of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a

few months to live,according to doctor.I have not lived
my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone(not
even myself) but my business.Though I am very rich, I
was never Generous, I was always hostile to people and

only focused on my business as that was the only thing I
cared for.But now I regret all this, as I now know that
there is more to life than just wanting to have or make
all the money in the world.I have decided to give alms to

charity organizations,as I want this the last good deed I
do on earth.So far, I have distributed money to some
charity organizations in asia. Now that my health has
deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself anymore. I

then asked members of my family to close all my
accounts and sell off all my properties and distribute the
money to charity organizations and keep only a certain
% to themselves but they refused and with aid of my

lawyer they kept the money to themselves.
Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to
be contended with what I have left for them.
The last of my money which no one knows of is a cash
deposit of $5,000,000 that I have with a
finance/Security Company abroad. I will want you to
help me collect this deposit and dispatch it to charity
organizations.I have set aside 10% for your time.i shall

soon disable this page so please reply to
charitydream@gmail.com
God Bless you
sall

It looks as though this story is being pushed quite hard by the crooks at the moment. I think this must be the 4th or 5th shipment waiting for me at Fedex benin.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mr JOHN EZE <johneze01@yahoo.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2008 4:36 PM
Subject: CONTACT FEDEX COURIER COMPANY
To:

Reply-To: info_fedx_courierdeliverycomp01@yahoo.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <20080424142222.E7A396966@rcmdxwebc01.cavtel.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:18:21 -0400 (EDT)

Dear Friend,Greetings

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft worth of (usd $1.650.000.00)ONE MILLION SIX  HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS which my boss left with me before he travelled out,but I did not hear from you since that time. Then with the help of a friend who is a Bank manager I cashed the money and deposited it as a BOX containing African clothes with FEDEX COURIER COMPANY LIMITED, Cotonou, Benin Republic.

What you have to do now is to contact the FEDEX COURIER COMPANY as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your package to you. For  your nformation, I have paid for the delivering Charge, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the package.

The only money you will send to the Courier & Security Company to deliver your package direct to your postal Address in your country is ($105.00 US) HUNDRED AND  FIVE UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY,  being Security Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far. Again, don’t be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except $105.00 US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said no because they don’t know when you will contact them and in case of demurrage.  You have to contact the FEDEX COURIER COMPANY now for the delivery of your package with this information bellow;

Contact Person:Dr.Chidinma uche.
Telephone:+229 93 41 55 22
Email Address:info_fedx_courierdeliverycomp01@yahoo.com

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm the following infomation to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track your package over there and know when it will get to your address.

The infomations are;
(1.)YOUR FULL NAME……………………………………………
(2.)YOUR CURRENT HOME MAILING ADDRESS………….
(3.)YOUR HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER…………………….
(4.)YOUR CURRENT MOBILE PHONE………………………..
(5.)A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE FOR IDENTIFICATION………………………….
(6.)AGE………………………………………………………………
(7.)SEX………………………………………………………………
(8.)YOUR OCCUPACTION……………………………………….

Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any further delay and remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of $105.00 US Dollars for their immediate action.Do let me know immediately you recieves your package.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr JOHN EZE