Baghdad. I received this in my email. Can I believe this, and what should I do about it?

The email said:

"I am Captain L. David Marquet of the US Marine Force on Monitoring and Peace keeping mission in Baghdad-Iraq.

"On the 7th day of March 2007, we were alerted on the sudden presence of some Terrorists camping in a suburb not too far from Karbala here in Iraq. After Immediate intervention, we captured three (3) of the Terrorists, twenty-six (26) were killed leaving seven (7) injured.

"In the process of torture they confessed being rebels for late Ayman al-Zawahiri and took us to a cave in Karbala which served as their camp. Here we recovered several guns, bombs and other Ammunitions including some boxes among which two contains nuclear weapons, one filled with hard drugs (cocaine) and the other four to my amazement contain some US Dollars amounting to $4.2M after I and two of my junior intelligent officers counted them.

"I however instructed them to keep this in high secrecy. I am in keen need of a “Reliable and Trustworthy” person like you."

sparhawk7322

One of the oldest cons in the book.

If you stop looking to make easy money you are very hard to con.

Love Answers

It's fake.
No one's going to email you in regards to 4.2 million dollars.
Think about it.
If that was real, they'd call you or show up at your door.

Too good to be true almost always is.

Papa Joe

The Nigerian money scam moved to Iraq....lol

Steve E

I call B*ll*hit.

Roadrunner58-79

NO,DO NOT believe it. THIS IS A SCAM,
Delete it, DO NOT REPLY!!!!!!

Politically Wrong

Wanna buy a really good used bridge in Brooklyn...

I can't believe someone would consider that being for real.....Scary

jaclyn

it is fake
don't worry

Old Nick

It's fake.
Someone with nothing better to do having a laugh.
You can tell, terrorists wouldn't have cocaine as it's un-Islamic. They wouldn't have a nuke either, if they did they'd have used it by now.

sofmatty

i got that one too, what a joke

Can you say "SCAM"..... Why do you think a Captain would be writing to you about a battle.....Why do you think a military officer would not already have a "reliable and trustworthy" chain of command for something like this.

Most of these scams come from Nigeria and some Eastern European countries. My advice is to delete it - don't respond......

mcc123

delete it. it's a scam!

Wolfsburgh

allah.arafat (THAT'S a good one...),

It would occur to me that you're starting sh*t where there's not any to start. It also occurs to me, through reading some of your questions and answers that folks like you are part of the problem and that NO Marine in his right mind would share something that's kept in 'high secrecy' with someone like you.

You are neither 'reliable' nor 'trustworthy.' The entire email you fabricated here has none of the 'ring' of anything resembling truth. There are too many inconsistencies, not to mention errors made in language. I figure YOU to be the likely author.

Nice try, arafat.

Kewpie

You can check snopes (www.snopes.com) and see if they know if it's legit or not. I doubt it is. Sounds like solicitation to me.

Pa0

I guess you're not that reliable and trustworthy huh?
Lol jk. No don't believe it, it is a scam, delete it, don't reply to the sender and ignore those type of 'happy surprise' e-mails. =)

screamingradical

THE PERSON WHO WROTE THIS IS :
1 Not a Marine,
2 Not a native English speaker.
3 Not an American,

These are obvious from the way this e-mail is worded. Please contact athorities. This qualifies as an act of War by use of propraganda and spam!

cgalloway1973

This is a phishing attempt. It is the same type of email you get from "Nigeria", some lawyer who 'tracked you down a s the lest living relative of 'X'" (usually spelled that poorly too), or some one claiming to be the last surviving daughter of a slain leader.

It is just there to make you respond and then they get your IP and email address. Then they want your bank account.... You know, the same stuff we teach you about in the anti-fraud classes we have to do every 6 months in the Armed Forces.

If it bothers you that much, forward it to the 'Tips' website for the FBI. I did that just because I hate it when fools abuse a soldier's names. My worry was that the phisher was using a dead bretheren's name for his/her scheme. That is what upset me as I usually delete these emails out of hand. We have enough people pissing on our graves (a la Cindy Sheehan and others) without some moron doing this.

This 'person' has been an "Army Officer" and a "Marine". The letter is the same though. However, the name does not show up on any search of personel files. Terrorists have been found stoned off their rears and even drunk as they attempt to 'martyr' themselves (most fail to do anything but kill themselves). Also, while we did recover A LOT of nuclear material from Iraq, no terrorists have been found with operational nukes.

That said, the guys with chlorine gas bombs are pissing us off......

fritzpatch

That sounds totally true. The US forces are probably constantly uncovering money and gold in these hideouts. And with that money it seems realistic that they would contact a total stranger to give it to. Go for it!

neb s

you definitely didn't keep it a secret

go gadget53

It's crap...trust me. Ignore it and move on. It's no different than all these other e-mail scams.

Curt

Do you happen to know how long it would take two people to count 4.2 million dollars? Stop posting this made up crap.

Reported.

T-dot

ur trying to fool us all u typed it up.

Al_Hattal

It sounds a little fishy to me. If it were genuine, I suspect it might contain instructions. As it does not, I would not trust it. Then again, it may be a genuine email that got "misdirected".

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