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Messages like this one show that the Iraqi conflict is still an ideal background for 419 scams. The stories are hardly researchable and the conflict is full of myths.

Does anyone know what an “obscured business suggestion” could be?

The funny thing about this e-mail is the sender address. Do you see it?

The so called Mr. Liu Yan is using an account with the name paulsmiths_uk@yahoo.co.uk.

Now why would he do that?

Because Liu Yan/Paul Smiths or what ever his name is, was just too lazy to set up a new account for his new scam message.

On the other hand, he has a localised Hong Kong Yahoo addresse as a so called private account. If that one is 006, how many accounts may he have there?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: MR LIU YAN Date: May 15, 2008 1:50 AM
Subject: Your Response Is Highly Needed
To: undisclosed-recipients

Good day,

I am Mr.Liu Yan a transfer supervisor operations in investment section in Bank of China Ltd,Hong Kong.I have a obscured business suggestion for you.

Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client General Mohammed Jassim Ali who was with the Iraqi forces and also business man made a numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar months,with a value of Nineteen millions Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch.

Upon maturity several notice was sent to him,even during the war early this year.Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him.We later find out that the general and his family had been killed during the war in bomb blast that hit their home.

After further investigation it was also discovered that General Mohammed Jassim Ali did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit.And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank.So,Nineteen millions Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it.What bothers me most is that according to the to the laws of my country at the expiration 5 years the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to
claim the funds.

Against this backdrop,my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to General Mohammed Jassim Ali so that you will be able to receive his funds.

Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue.Once the funds have been transferred to your nominated bank account we shall share in the ratio of 60% for me, 40% for you.

If interested send your your response to my personal email
address:liuyann006@yahoo.com.hk

Regards
Liu Yan

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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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