Another Clever Scam Email
Monday, July 13th, 2009Here’s another in the series of scam e-mails I receive. This is a gem – from Staff Sargeant Skye Heiker, and the email address is ssgt.skye.heikerss@usmarine.com. What was my first clue this was a scam? The URL usmarine.com is just a parked domain with a bunch of links on it. Good job guys.
My second clue? What U.S. Marine begins a letter with “Good day and compliments”? Seriously. I love the Marines and have complete and total respect for each one of them and their service (all the armed forces). But I’m pretty sure they’re not so flowery with their prose. Anyway, read it and laugh.
Dear Friend,
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 Ssgt Skye Heiker, a US Marine Capt. 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 $12,570,000 (Twelve million Five Hundred and Seventy Thousand USD) to the States or any safe country of your choice, 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 German 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, 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 Endeavour to contact me and we would work out the necessary formalities but i pray that you are discreet about this mutually benefiting relationship.
Contact me via my private box: (address removed by admin) so that I can
furnish you with more details.
Respectfully,
Ssgt Skye Heiker
United States Marine Corps. IRAQ
UPDATE: I just got this EXACT same email today from SSgt. Mark George, except he’s patroling the Baghdad province instead of Anbar. Wow, our military guys share the same mind. It must be some kind of government brainwashing plot.
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