Nigerian scam goes Iraqi!

[Walt Starr]

Just got this in my email. It CRACKED ME UP!

Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:05:45 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
From: [e-mail] Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: BADGHDAD VICTIM


Attention .Assalamu Alaikum,may Allah bless us in the name of
Allah
Almighty the merciful.My name is Shadak Sharic,I am
a crude oil
marketer in Baghdad,Iraq.During the war
led by the United state and
Britain,My home,investment
and properties were bombed down.I lost my
wife and two
children in the bomb blast.I escaped death,thanks to
Allah,
but sustained very serious injuries,that is why
I am still
hospitalised.

I managed to send this email through the help of
Humanitarian Doctor from Syria,and presently it is
very difficult for
me to communicate to the outside
world due to the war.I need help from
a reliable and
honest person I can trust in the name of Allah the
merciful.Considering my present predicament and the
political situation
in Iraq,I now seek your assistance
to help me retrieve and clear a
twenty eight million
US-Dollars (US$28,000 000)deposit which i
deposited
with the a security company based in Spain.

In this regards,
i need a very faithful,honest and God
fearing person,who can assist me
in administering this
fund,otherwise it will be confiscated by the
security
company.Please respond urgently,so that i will give
you all
the details of the deposit and the contact
address of the security
company for your personal
confirmation.Please get in touch with me
through my
personal email address:[e-mail] to
enable us discuss further.

Best regards,

Peace Inshallah
Shadak
Shari



The 419 scam has moved to Iraq! :rofl:

[The Doctor.]

1. I have a blast with these people...

First I lead them on for a while, letting them think I'm the perfect mark ("I would love to help you, I have many bank accounts where I keep fluid funds and can easily hide a few million in each through my friend at the bank") or something like that.

Now that they think I'm a rich fool, I string them along for a week as they begin to send me instructions.

Then I send them some instructions back telling them to wire a small amount of money to me to open an ancillary account (or something... @$10,000), usually I tell them I need to do this in order to set up a pretext for 'international trade' as per the instructions of my accountant...

I make it up as I go along.

Eventually they catch on that I'm playing with them and stop contacting me.

At the very least I hope I am diverting their time and resources away from some real sucker out there.

If anyone knows a better way to deal with them, let me know - I'm always up for screwing with these assholes.