| Author | Message | ||
     Moxnix |
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 | ||
| Cityxslicker |
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. | ||
| Geforce |
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. | ||
| Froggy |
What I can't figure out is how people still fall for it. They have been going on for years! | ||
| Swordsman |
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 | ||
| Cochise |
Yeah, and why does it have to be "Hicks", why can't it be Sgt. "Yankees"? | ||
| Mortarmanmike120 |
"Hudson sir, he's Hicks" | ||
| Mortarmanmike120 |
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. |
