A scam with a Middle Eastern twist

Usually, it is the widow of a late dictator from Nigeria or Togo. The poor woman is so hard-pressed to buy food, that she has to desperately find somebody (i.e. you) to help her siphon ill-gotten millions out of the country.

Yesterday, such a scam attempt arrived in my mailbox. This time, though, there was no desperate wife. Just a dying soldier who wanted salvation for his soul.

Read on and enjoy.

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Hello Buddy,

I hope my email meets you well. My name is Sgt .James Clayton jr. I am in the Engineering military unit here in Baghdad in Iraq , with Oesophageal cancer which has defiled all forms of medical treatment,and right now I have only about a few weeks/month to live, according to medical experts. My late 2 colleagues who died last week in a bomb blast and I found a huge sum of $6.500,000 Million USD in Baghdad neighbourhood (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm) that we have successfully moved out of the country to INDIA via a diplomat .

I am contacting you because i want you to help with claiming of this Consignment and help me distribute them to charity organizations and homeless people.

I feel distributing the funds would be a way to appease the LORD and also want God to be merciful to me and my late friends and also accept our souls,because we have killed so many in the war, but we where only serving our country.

I have decided to give this sum 0f $6.500,000 Million USD to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth.

I will want you to help me collect this consignment and dispatched it to charity organizations like i have said earlier.

I have set aside 30% for you and your time, 20% should be use by you to settle any expenses that you might have incured in the cause of your making the claims for this consignment.

The most important thing is that can I TRUST you Once the funds get to you?, and also would you distribute the rest 50% to charity organizations, Your own part of this deal is to contact the DIPLOMAT on how the consignment can be released and sent down to your home address and also find a safe place where the funds can be kept.

If you are interested I will furnish you with more details.

But the whole process is simple and we must keep a low profile at all times because if the authorities are aware of this funds, it would be seized and used for purchasing ammunitions and irrelevant accessories,whereby we have so many sick, homeless kids dying with hunger.

I am awaiting your urgent response on my private email address: james@sergentclayton.dom-reg.com

IN GOD WE TRUST!!!!

Regards.

SGT .JAMES CLAYTON