These scams still tickle me...

[janikphoto]

It is so obviously a scam, but I still laugh when I read how poorly the emails are written and how "un-American" the American soldier sounds... I mean, when's the last time you announced to a cashier that you would be paying in "united sates dollars" for something?!? And when someone asks where you are from, when have you ever said "I’m from Iowa in United State" as an answer (replacing Iowa with whatever state you are from). Scammers shouldn't fake a US identity, if they don't know how to talk like us. Enjoy the copy of my latest email from these nut jobs...

Dear Friend,

Please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you.

I know you would be surprised reading from someone relatively unknown to you before, but I have no option than contacting you due to the urgency of this transaction. My name is Sgt. Bob Morris; I’m from Iowa in United State, presently serving with the U.S Army here in Iraq .

Although we have not met in person yet but I would like to tell you more about myself and why I'm contacting you. Actually this is a top secret that I have kept within myself for years now but I have no option than telling you about it because I believe you can keep it confidential even though we haven’t meet in person yet.

It was on 19th of April 2003, while searching the Building of the late Saddam Hussein, my colleague and I moved a very hug concrete stone in one of the underground rooms, we found a buried metals cases under the stone, this cases were filled with brand new hundred dollars bill, we moved two cases out before announcing the incident to other troops, we later found out that each case contains four million united states dollars in them. We were able to move the cases to Amman Jordan by diplomatic means and later to Thailand in Asia and it have remained there till date. I lost my colleague to suicide bomber attacker a year ago.

Because of the rumors and investigation on this issue, I have left the consignment in Bangkok, Thailand, South East Asia for the past 7 years; you can view this for more details:

Saddam's Palaces: U.S. Soldiers Find Saddam's Hidden Money - 2003-04-20 | ????? | Burmese

So I came up with the idea of searching for a reliable individual or Company that I can invest the fund with because I can not have any Investment on my names for security reasons as it could be traced and then my personality and career will be at stake.
I’m proposing to invest this fund with you if we can agree on a better terms, do get back to me for further correspondence. bobmorris39@yahoo.de

Yours truly,
Sgt. Bob Morris

[revjvegas]

Sad thing is that they do get people who just don't know any better and/or are just gullible enough to believe it. Its like they say, there would be no supply if there was no demand...or victims in this case.

Oh, and just an opinion...I'd remove those external links from within the spammer text that you pasted in.

I mean, there's no point in helping him gain coverage on the interweb ehh.

[carrbowl]

I used to wonder who in the heck would buy that load of trash...I watched that show called Intervention. It showed an addict who was sending all of his money to these guys. I'm sure there are some old or some mentally handicapped people that fall prey too.
Seems crazy....but there is always someone.

[TxLerman]

The really sad part is that is also identity theft. There really is a Sgt. Robert Morris in the USMC. I googled the name and got the guy's myspace page. There is also a Sgt. Robert Morris in the US Army in the 3rd ID.

[Donb10]

This scam, in one form or another has been around for about twenty years. Some times its from the wife of an army general in Nigeria who upon the death of her husband has come into a large some of money and needs your help transfering the money from her account to yours in America. The only factual part of the entire scam is the word Nigeria.

I worked in the Major Fraud division of the Harris County DA's office for 16 years.Ninty-nine percent of these type scam come straight out of Nigeria. The other one percent were Nigerians working out of Canada.

I got one of these e-mails sent directly to me in the DA's office. I played along with them for awhile but they stopped their e-mails when I asked for their American Express account number or $50,000.00 up front as a token of their good faith. Funny how that works!

[janikphoto]

Originally Posted by Donb10

This scam, in one form or another has been around for about twenty years...

Oh, I think we are all pretty aware that these scams have been going on for a long time. Anyone with an email inbox should already be familiar with them. I just get a kick out of the ones that are posing as an American, but can't get any of our common phrases correct. It would be like me dressing up as a Nazi during WWII and trying to infiltrate the SS by saying (in a terrible German accent), " Could y'all tell me where I can find Hitler?"