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Logically speaking, this story of Saddam’s cash ready for transport
out of Iraq is certainly not true.

But…

There are people on this planet who would like to profit from it.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Sgt. Mark Fitzgerald
Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:00 AM
Subject: Letter From Sgt. Mark Fitzgerald
To: undisclosed-recipients

Hello,

This mail will definitely be coming to you as a surprise, but i must crave your
indulgence to introduce myself to you. I am Sgt. Mark Fitzgerald, an American
soldier, currently serving in the third infantry division in Iraq.

I am in Kuwait on duty break. I and my partner, secretly moved some abandoned
cash in a mansion belonging to the late president, Saddam Hussein and the total
cash is 25million USD. As I write this letter to you, this box is with security
firm in cash as I secretly moved it out of Iraq to a security firm for deposit.

You don’t have to be afraid of anything as no one else knows about this and
everything is safe.

I would be pleased and grateful to you if you could assist us in receiving this
box on our behalf as I will be heading back soon to camp in Iraq to join my
Colleagues.Of course, I will give you some money for your efforts. We have
limited time now, kindly get back to me immediately. Moving the funds out of
here is not going to be a problem as arrangements are being made towards that.

All I want from you is your trust and assurance that if the box gets to you,
You can keep it in a safe place until our arrival.

I have to stop here for now, as your response will determine our subsequent
correspondence.

Please do not expose us for security reasons.

In God we trust,
Sgt. Mark Fitzgerald,

That’s a great phrase, “re-profiling funds”.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: <busi6@netbusiness.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:33 AM
Subject: sipo
To: info@likar.info

From: Engr.Michaael sipo
Director of Projects
Department of Sport and Recreation
Pretoria

ATTENTION: Sir/Madam

I write, asking for your indulgence in re-profiling funds to tune of Twelve Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$12.8m), which we want to keep safely overseas under your supervision.

In other words, we would like you to receive the said funds on our behalf. The Funds were derived over time from a project awarded to a foreign firm by my Department, and presently the actual contract cost have been paid to the original project executors, leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount which we have in principle obtained approval to remit overseas.

Kindly pardon the use of a medium informal as this for reaching out to you to make a request of great importance to us.

Currently, I work as a Director of Projects at The Department of Sport and Recreation here in Pretoria.

I have the authority and approval of my partners involved in this transaction to negotiate a suitable compensation for your participation and I propose 22.2 percent, while we also propose that we receive 46.6 percent and 31.2 percent be earmarked for purposes of taxation.

This endeavour has a minimal risk factor on your part provided you treat it with the utmost discretion. You are advised to reach me through email for further clarifications.

I am available for further clarification via alternative email:
michaelsipo00@gmail.com

I kindly wait to hear from you.

Yours Sincerely,
Engr.Michael Sipo

Of course, Franca Donna is just a fictive name, just like so many others used for these scams

———- Forwarded message ———-
From:mrsfrancadonna02@sogou.com
Date: 2008/4/16
Subject: Dearest Friend PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO ME.
To:

Dearest Friend, PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO ME.

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not know before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should please consider the transaction on its content and not the fact that you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days.

I would like to introduce myself as Mrs. Franca Donna, of Repulic of Benin, widow to Late Mr.Sheik Donna (for Consular of the benin embassy in Madrid,Spain.I have been recently been daigonosed of Cancer of the Pelvics. I am writing from my sick bed in a CHINESE HOSPITAL here in Benin Republic.

There is this consignment (containg US$29.5Million cash, in US$100 bills) my husband deposited with a security company, here in Cotonou,Republic of Benin of which I am the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have no children, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin. This person will apply to the company and request, from them, the procedure towards retrieving the consignment from them.

This is on the condition that you will take 25% of the fund for yourself, 5% used for expenses, while you will use the remaining 70% for the less previlege people in the society. This is in fulfilment of the last request of my husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less previleged.

If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names and contact information so that I will send you all the documents that the company gave to my husband when the consignment was deposited. So that you will contact the company directly, and demand from them the procedure towards retrieving the consignment from their company.

I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time you will recieve the fund, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have described above, I look forward to hear your response at this Email:(mrs_francadonna01@yahoo.com).

Best Regards
Mrs. Franca Donna. ________________________________

This story has been used several times during the last couple of weeks. Although on this one the crooks did spend some time to rewrite it.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Edna Yeo <yeo_edna@voila.fr>
Date: 02.12.2007 22:17
Subject: PLEASE RESPOND URGENTLY!!!
To: yeo_edna@voila.fr

Dear,

I know what I am about telling you might put you at the edge of your sit but quite frankly, I have no other person that I can readily confide in this dificulty that has befallen me for quite sometime but you since I saw your profile on the website, I just couldn’t let go. I feel that I could confide in you so that you could help me out of it.

I do not know exactly how to begin. However, I do know that the only way to begin is to begin. My father died last year as a result of the conspiracy of his associates who got him poisoned in one of their business outings. Before my father’s sudden death, he was influentially wealthy as a cocoa merchant here in Cote d’Ivoire and excelled in all his endeavours. This brought the jealousy of his associates who felt very unsecured by his affluence that he would monopolise their business one day with his money. The result of this jealousy was the eventual elimination of my dad through poison. I was at the University of Cape Coast then when I got the news of my father’s ailment hence rushed back home to meet him up at the hospital. It was at the hospital that he told me about the fund $17.5m which he deposited with a bank here in Abidjan and craved my indulgence to look for a foreign partner who I can trust to help me get it transferred and invest it accordingly since he could not trust our local people here anymore.

Since his sudden demise, I have tried the much I can to have access to the fund to no avail since I was told by the bank that based on the agreement of deposit, I cannot have access to the fund kept in a suspense account umless I have a foreign partner with me. This is where you come in. My father deposited the said fund with the intent to have it transferred overseas for foreign investment which he could not live to actualise. Now, that I am the next of kin to the fund and the only child, it becomes incumbent on me to make proper use of the fund but the most paramount thing at this moment, is to complete my education while you invest the fund pending my graduation from the university.

As soon as you signify your interest to help me get this fund transferred, I shall forward you with the bank contact details so that you would contact them immediately. Be assured that all the necessary arrangement to have the fund transferred hitch-freely would be put in place here hence will pose no difficulty.

Immediately, the fund is confirmed in your account, you are to work out modalities to have me come over immediately to your country and complete my education.
PLEASE REPLY TO: ed_yeo2@yahoo.com

Awaiting your urgent response, I remain

Edna

This one wants to assure you that you do not pay any cash "upfront". That’s what I call reassuring.

What "Roland" fails to tell you is, if you decide to "sign up" with them that you will definitely be charged with cheque and other types of fraud, because you will be the one who cashed the money in.

Sure you may have done it in good faith, but try and prove that when you are in court.

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: Be Our Company Rep!! (10-Apr-2006 5:41)
From: roland_wessel201@yahoo.co.uk
To: unknown@192.168.2.100

Dear Partner,

We are very much aware of scams going on all over the Internet and as

such we are assuring you that at no time will you be required to make

any upfront payments of your personal funds to us for whatever reasons,

we are legitimate entrepreneur seeking for a trustworthy foreign

partners.

Top of the day to you.Let me crave your indulgence to introduce myself

to you, I am Roland Wessel president/founder of STAR ENERGY GROUP

PLC, we are OPEC members who deal on crude oil and raw material and

export into the Canada/America and Europe.I will want to solicit for

your assistance to helpcollect a cheque that is due for payment to me

for services and supplies i rendered.

Please if you are willing to assist, i will want you to furnish me with your

particulars, so as to enable me give you further details. Please, you have

to be an honest and trusted person, as more payments will be made

through you in the course of this transaction.And more so you will be

entitled to 10% of every payment that you are able to receive for us

from our customers.

Please contact us for more information via email (

roland_wessel201@yahoo.co.uk) with the below in formations filled out.

NAME: ……………………….

MAILING ADDRESS:………………..

AGE: …………………………

STATUS:……………………….

STATE/COUNTRY:………………….

TEL/FAX NUMBERS:………………..

CELL PHONE:…………………….

COMPANY NAME: …………………

OCCUPATION: …………………..

NAME OF YOUR BANK:………………

We look forward in working with you.

C.E.O
Mr.Roland Wessel
Star Energy Group plc

Star Energy Group plc.
1st Floor
5 Lower Belgrave Street
London SW1W 0NR
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 703 1905 670

Tags: Roland Wessel, Star Energy Group, 419 scam, Cheque fraud, Agent scam, Representative scam, Internet fraud

You just have to read the “NOTE”! It basically says, “Sure there are a lot of fraud e-mails which look like this does, BUT that does not say that this one is a fraud e-mail”!

So if you are in doubt, your fears will come true!

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: URGENT (18-Dez-2005 14:30)
From: patdaniels@lamalla.net
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

I feel very sorry to interrupt your peace since you are not expecting to receive any mail from me. However, I was obliged to do so due to the importance and urgency of the message. I crave your indulgence, and want to reassure you that I mean well and that it is only for our mutual good. So please do not be embarrassed or suspicious.

My name is Pat Daniels. I am a social worker with an International Non-Governmental/Voluntary organization based in Switzerland. I am the Accounts/Project Director in-charge of South America regional representation. Our organization, through the local NGO’S and other Agencies and in partnership with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, UNESCO, etc works and sponsors development projects and social services in some third world/developing countries, assistance and re-settlement of victims of natural disaster, civil wars and Refugees, displaced/oppressed children and minority people around the world.

I am just back from Iraq where in the cause of performing our duties we found in a box a large amount of money in cash in an abandoned house, I reached an agreement with the members of my team whom are UN officials(two in number) and we agreed to keep this money to ourselves and they moved the box out of Iraq to Europe(with their immunity as UN officials they are not searched at borders or airports) Now, I am in need of are liable and trustworthy person or company overseas whom I can confidently work with. My work does not permit me to own a foreign bank account or any personal business until retirement.

I have the honour to confide this information in you and to request for your pleasure to assist to receive and secure the money in your account, pending our retirement from service. Please understand that my approach to you is based only on my positive reasoning and on the belief that you will not disappoint or betray me at last.

The amount is fairly huge and we have agreed that on completion of the deal, you will retain some reasonable percentage of the money as a compensation for your assistance. By any standard, the money is cool and legal and therefore quite safe and secure for all of us. However, to consider our official positions, reputation and integrity, especially, the opportunities in the business itself, it is very necessary that all due care be taken so that we do not miss the opportunity due to carelessness. You are therefore expected and advised to display high degree of maturity, responsibility and understanding in handling this information.

There would be a meeting in Europe where we moved the money to, for further discussions and to consummate the transaction at once. I will give you all the details in my next mail when you have indicated your interest and commitment to work with me. Always remember that this is the highest confidence and trust any person can repose on the other, especially when it is considered that we did not know ourselves before. I hope you will honor me too.

NOTE: I know there may be scams and junk mails flying here and there on the internet but certainly, this is not one. Please do not fail to understand that in spite of all that, opportunities of this kind still abound. If you have ever wished or prayed for something good to come your way, now I urge you to take this message seriously and with an open mind. You could never know. This may be an answer to your prayers. So please give it a benefit of doubt, and with good faith and trust join me and I am assuring you now that you will never be disappointed.

Please reply urgently and furnish your TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS, for
further details. Treat as strictly confidential and do not reply to this email address I am reaching you from because it is my email address at work and might not be 100% safe so pls no matter your decision send your reply strictly to voluntarypatdan@ netscape.net

Best regards,
Pat Daniels