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Leonard says:

Hi Eiley,
My name is Leonard Siragusa and I am a real estate agent in Fitzroy North. Just thought I’d let you know about the scam that was sent to me. But of course I deleted it straight away. This was a response to an email enquiry I received regarding a property I have for sale – see below

Good Day My Friend

From your contact i see you as a very legal profile person,i picked interest to buy your property and also want to handle a very confidential business deal with you, i will need your assistance and advice because i am planing to invest my money in your country soonest,i contacted you because i believe you are legal, and can handle a lucrative business as an experienced legal citizen.
My Drear friend i have a business proposal for you. I am a captain with the United Nations troop in Iraq,on war against terrorism. Based on the United States legislative and executive decision for withdrawing troops from Iraq come this year,I have been deployed to come and work in your country’s military base soonest.Our mission is to help beef up terrorist targeted states,mostly the United states and the European Union on the war against terrorism.

On the other hand I want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum of {$16.2 MILLION DOLLARS CASH} which i got from crude oil deal.
I deposited this money with a red cross agent informing him that we are making contact for the real owner of the money.It is under my power to approve whoever comes forth for this money.
I wish to use this money for charity purposes in Turkey,where we have about 3 million Iraqi refugees and Sudan where we have currently the highest numbers of refugees displaced as a result of war.You need to visit such places. I want to invest the money on stock fish from Norway to this refugees because base on my experience on battle ground in this places, they lack a lot of fish and meat to add to their meager and unpalatable meals which they get in little quantity just to keep them living until God knows when the problem ends.Instead of allowing this terrorists to get the money and spend it on purchasing arms from Russia, it is better channeled to saving the world.

I cannot move this money to the United states because I will be in Europe for about 3years,so I need someone I could trust.If you accept,I will transfer the money to Europe where you will be the beneficiary,because I am a uniformed person and I cannot be parading such an amount so I need to present someone as the beneficiary.
I am an American and an intelligence officer for that so I have a 100% authentic means of transferring the money through diplomatic courier service .I just need your acceptance and all is done.
Please if you are interested in this transaction I will give to you the complete details you need for us to carry out this transaction successfully.I decided to find someone that is real and not imaginary and that is why I went to a secured car site where I can be sure that the person is real. I believe I can trust you. where we are now we can only communicate through our military communication facilities which is secured so nobody can monitor our emails,then I can explain in details to you.I will only reach you through email,because our calls might be monitored,I just have to be sure whom I am dealing with.

If you are interested please send me your personal mobile number so I can call you for further inquiries when I am out of our military network.I am writing from a fresh email account so if you are not interested do not reply to this email and please delete this message,if no response after 3days I will then search for someone else.I am doing this on trust,you should understand and you should know that as a trained military expert I will always play safe in case you are the bad type,but I pray you are not. {$16.2 MILLION DOLLARS CASH }is a lot of money which is the dream of anyone. I wait for your contact details so we can go on.In less than 5days the money should have been noted on your account and I will come over for my money.I will give to you 20% from the {$16.2 MILLION DOLLARS CASH }. and 80% is for me.
I hope I am been fair on this deal.please contact me if you are interested in this deal,i am ready to give you all information and details about this deal and your roll to play, i await your reply Regards Capt James Homer