I will get millions of Saddams dollars!

allen griggs

Got this email today:




Dear Sir,

My name is Col. John E. Sterling, I found your contact particulars in a
guide they provide us here in US, as I desperately needed an urgent
help to do this deal. I am seeking your kind assistance to move the sum
of $12m {Twelve Million U.S Dollars only} to you as far as I can be
assured that my share will be safe in your care until I am ready.

SOURCE OF FUND:

A lot of money was discover by our division, the soldiers of the 3rd
Infantry Division about $780 million in makeshift vaults in the gated
complex that was once occupied by senior officials of Hussein's
government, armed forces and political party and later discovered a cache of $112
million in a row of dog kennels. A lot of money in various currencies
were also discovered in barrels at a farmhouse near one of
Saddam%u2019s old palaces in Tikrit in Iraq during an operation Conquest in
Fallujah north of Baghdad, and it was agreed by Staff Sgt. Kenneth Buff, Maj.
Gen. Buford C. Blount III, and I that some part of this money be shared
among us before informing anybody about it since three of us saw the
money first. This is quite an illegal thing to do, but well tell you
what? No compensation can make up for the risk we have taken with our
lives in this hell hole, of which my brother in-law was killed by a road
side bomb.

The above figure was given to me as my share, and to conceal this kind
of money became a problem to me, so with the help of a British Contact
working here, at Southern Basra British fortified green zone, whose
office enjoys some immunity, I was able to get the package out to a safe
location entirely out of trouble spot, into a security company in
London, England to be deposited for a period of 4(four year maturity period)
so that the issue can die down. He does not know the real contents of
the package, and believes that it belongs to a British/American medical
doctor who died in a raid here in Baghdad, and before giving up,
trusted me to hand over the package to his family in England. I have now
found a very secured way of getting the package out of the security company
in England to you, now that maturity period is over, for you to pick
it up, and I will discuss this with you when I am sure that you are
willing to assist me, I am assured that my money will be well secured in
your hands, because you have fear of God.

I want you to tell me how much you will take from this money for the
assistance you will give me. One passionate appeal I will make to you is
not to discuss this matter with anybody, should you have reasons to
reject this offer, please and please destroy this message as any leakage
of this information will be too bad and catastrophic for soldiers of
3rd Infantry Division and Task Force 4-64 who served in Iraq. I do not
want to be totally involved in this transaction for a reason but I hope
to come over to you as soon as we are through. I have been shot and
wounded twice and I have survived two terrible suicides bomb attacks just
by special grace of God, this and other reasons I will mention later has
prompted me to reach out for help, I will honestly want this matter be
resolved immediately,

Please contact me as soon as possible with my private email address:
col_johnesterlling@yahoo.com, which is my only way of communication for
now. Endeavor to give me your direct phone number on your reply.


I thank you so much for everything and anticipate that you will be
trustworthy and handle this transaction to the best of your ability to
benefit both of us.

Remain Blessed.

Yours,

Col. John E. Sterling (Rtd.)

sarge_3ad

Better jump on that opportunity.[;)]

Cubslover

Email him back and tell him you are with the 3rd Infantry Division and you've reported him to the Government.

allen griggs

Check this out. I googled up the names involved, and they are for real. They are troops who were involved in dealing with huge amounts of Saddam's cash recovered in Iraq, but Sgt Buff, Gen. Blount, and Col Sterling did not steal money.

Officers End an Unofficial Treasure Hunt
U.S. Military Recovers Millions Allegedly Stolen by Troops During Search of Hussein Palace
(April 25, 2003)

By William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
washingtonpost.com
Friday, April 25, 2003; Page A15

BAGHDAD, April 24 -- The word went out last Friday: Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash were left behind in bricked-up buildings inside one of fallen president Saddam Hussein's palace compounds. Before long, U.S. officers said, a half-dozen U.S. soldiers had stashed away $12.3 million for themselves.

But the windfall didn't last. Military officials said the accused soldiers all came clean and returned the money after officers shamed them by invoking their fallen comrades.

The soldiers are now under investigation and face punishments ranging from letters of reprimand to general courts martial, officials said. None has been charged, all are cooperating with investigators and nearly all the money that went missing for several hours last weekend has been recovered, they said.

Col. David G. Perkins, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division brigade to which the accused soldiers belong, said in an interview today that a relatively small amount -- in the "thousands of dollars" -- remained unaccounted for. The soldiers have not yet been disciplined. Their fate, Perkins added, will be decided under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

So far, soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division have found about $780 million in makeshift vaults in the gated complex that was once occupied by senior officials of Hussein's government, armed forces and political party. On Wednesday they discovered a cache of $112 million in a row of dog kennels.

"They actually thought they were going to survive this [U.S. attack] and go back into their vaults," said Lt. Col. Philip D. DeCamp, 40, of Fairfax, commander of the tank battalion that occupies the Republican Palace.

Left in the dog kennels and in what appeared to be relatively modest guesthouses were nearly 200 aluminum boxes, each riveted shut and sealed with green plastic tags marked "Bank of Jordan." Each box contained $4 million in $100 bills and a note signed by five Iraqis attesting to the amount inside. The notes were also marked with the date March 16, apparently when the boxes were sealed, said Lt. Col. Ken Knox, a civil affairs officer from Riverdale, Md.

On the doors of the guesthouses and the locks of the kennels were pieces of tape bearing the signature of Lt. Gen. Mohammad Ibrahim and the date March 20, the same day that U.S. troops crossed the Iraqi border from Kuwait in their drive to remove Hussein from power. DeCamp, commander of the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, said that Ibrahim did not appear on his list of the 55 most wanted Iraqi officials and that no other identifying details were known about him.

"I bet he was probably the last guy out of here," said DeCamp, whose regiment is a unit of the 3rd Infantry's 2nd Brigade.

The chain of events that led to the alleged theft attempts began Friday when two enlisted men, Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Van Ess and Staff Sgt. Kenneth Buff, discovered the money cache and immediately alerted senior officers.

Soldiers broke through walls of cinderblock and cement that apparently had been hastily erected over the doors and windows of some of the guesthouses. In each room they entered, they found 20 aluminum boxes stuffed with $100,000 in stacks of $100 bills.

Sometime later, five soldiers of the 10th Engineer Battalion, an element of the 2nd Brigade that is attached to DeCamp's Task Force 4-64, broke into a similarly bricked-up house up the road and discovered 50 aluminum boxes. But they reported only 47 of them, officials said.

According to DeCamp and other officers, the soldiers pried open one of the boxes and found it filled with cash. They then carried two of the 80-pound boxes across the road to a moat in front of an elaborate villa and dumped them, unopened, into the water.

The trouble was, DeCamp said, the boxes were each two feet square, and the water was only two feet deep. "So they weren't very hard to find," he noted.

The soldiers grabbed bundles of cash from the opened box and attempted to hide six of them -- totaling $600,000 -- in the trunk of a nearby tree, DeCamp said. An additional $200,000 was stashed in an adjacent wooded area. The soldiers hid the box -- which still contained some of the cache -- near where they were staying.

A soldier who knew about the opened box informed investigators about it. The soldiers involved were questioned, and the cash at all three locations was recovered Friday and Saturday. The informant has been cleared of any involvement in the alleged theft attempt.

In a separate incident, an Army truck driver, a member of the support platoon charged with transporting money to 3rd Infantry Division headquarters at Baghdad's international airport Friday, allegedly stuffed $300,000 of the stash into a cooler. The driver "fessed up immediately" when the missing amount was noticed, and that case was solved "within five minutes," DeCamp said.

The task force commander said officers reminded the soldiers that eight fellow brigade members had been killed and dozens wounded to get the unit to the palace complex they now occupied. To take advantage of that position to "loot Iraq" would dishonor the sacrifices of their fallen comrades, DeCamp said the soldiers were told.

Since the weekend incidents, soldiers have been instructed not to break into any more buildings or pry open any suspected cash boxes, but to secure the area and notify commanders.

"The little treasure hunts got out of hand . . . and we put a lid on them," DeCamp said.

By the time civil affairs soldiers discovered the kennels Wednesday, new procedures were in place, and senior officers were summoned to avoid any question about the find. After one of the seven kennels was opened, Maj. Gen. Buford C. Blount III, the 3rd Infantry Division commander, and Col. John E. Sterling, the division chief of staff, watched Task Force 4-64 soldiers break apart the cinderblock walls covering the entrances to the other six.

Officials have yet to determine what to do with the money. At present, "this money belongs to the U.S. government," and stealing it would be punishable as "theft of U.S. government property," DeCamp said.

But according to a Central Command spokesman in Qatar, Lt. Mark Kitchens, "all money found is the property of the Iraqi people." He told the Reuters news agency, "The riches of the nation of Iraq, whether money, oil or art, belong to the people, and we intend to ensure they get it."

Direct Link:
--http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35080-2003Apr24.html

cbxjeff

Now that you are rich, can I borrow $20.00 for a pizza?

mcaso

For those that wonder. My nice sells real estate. On ThanksGiving she said that they had a deal where a couple actually sent their savings to one of these scams. This came to light when the couple was buying a new house. They were going to pay cash and kept stalling when it came time to come up with the money. The couple finally had to say what was going on and that they were waiting for the money. One would think that by now the word would be out to everyone. But apparently not.