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Moxnix
Posted on Monday, August 10, 2009 - 11:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

There is probably someone sitting in a 3rd World cybercafe sending these out. I advertise overseas for our business and get a few of the Nigerian style scams daily. Using the US military as part of the con is a new one on me.

"Sgt.Tom Hicks" <sgttomhicks2@rediffmail.com>

To: undisclosed-recipients

--From:Sgt.Tom Hicks:


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 Sgt.Tom Hicks,a US Marine Sgt.
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 8million USD (Eight Million USD) to the States or any safe
country,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 British 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, and 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 Endeavor to contact
me and we would work out the necessary formalities but i pray that you are
discreet about this mutually benefiting relationship.


Get back to me so I can furnish you with more details.


Respectfully,
Sgt. Tom Hicks,
United States Marine Corps. IRAQ
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Monday, August 10, 2009 - 11:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Somebody was watching 3 Kings too many times.

And anybody that knows anything about OPSEC knows a Marine aint giving up his F.U.D. in a Spam main.

Dear Gawd, I cant decide if Joe Q Public is more greedy or ignorant.
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Geforce
Posted on Monday, August 10, 2009 - 01:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Wow an Air Raid huh? I guess the insurgents now have low flying aircraft equipped with spin stabilized rockets and inertia trigger bombs. Friggin idiot.

What is sad, some poor sap will fall for this. Just like the Nigeria ones.
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Froggy
Posted on Monday, August 10, 2009 - 01:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

What I can't figure out is how people still fall for it. They have been going on for years!
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Swordsman
Posted on Monday, August 10, 2009 - 02:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Wonder why there's always an "8" in the figure? It's always $8 million, or $800 million, or $128 million.... those Nigerians have a strange obsession with that number!

~SM
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Cochise
Posted on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 10:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yeah, and why does it have to be "Hicks", why can't it be Sgt. "Yankees"?
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Mortarmanmike120
Posted on Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 02:29 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"Hudson sir, he's Hicks"
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Mortarmanmike120
Posted on Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 02:31 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

1000 points to the first who gets the reference. And I'm drunk, so I may throw in an extra 800 points for the hell of it.
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