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Dearest friends,

Below is the text of a letter I have just received from a fellow translator in Iraq. The poor man needs my help in getting 6.5 million dollars out of Iraq. No comment!

Greeting from Iraq,
I had your contact and would like to share an important case with you.if you are interested, please exuse me for the inconvenience.

I am Mr. Issam Majeed, I am working in Iraq with the American military as a translator.In one of our military operations in Iraq, we found a safe in a large house of a great man in Iraq in the town of TIKRIT. The safe contains a large amount of money, American dollars, that is US $ 20 Million.

We immediately kept this safe in a secure place with two other American soldiers. After a lengthy deliberations among ourselves as to wheather we need to deliver those funds to American authorities in charge of the place or not,we all decieded to share these funds between ourselfs. In sharing, i received the sum of US $ 6.5 Million. For my part i have problems because of security in Iraq,I decieded to mananger with private security officers in Iraq to help me ship my share of these funds outside Iraq precisely to London for the security of the money.

The funds which was placed in a package as family valuables, I coded it, which means nobody knows what the package contains except me.
So I am contacting you to see if you can help me receive the package from London and ship it to your country, so I would invest those funds in area of profitable business in your country. I promise to give you some percentage of these funds for helping me but, we will discuss it when I receive your reply indicating your interest to help.
The citizens of Iraq are against me that they seek to kill me because I do translations for American military. I do not go out without American militries to avoid the worst happening. I can not use telephones or recieve calls here.I Only use Internet and walkie-talkies to communicate with military personnel whom I work with.
If the transaction is concluded, I will resign because for me to work and live here in Iraq is too risky for me.

Thank you as i am waiting for your urgent response
Mr. Issam Majeed.