Does anyone else get this email?

Who can I report this email to...
Dear friend,

How are you and your family? Hope all is well.

My name is Sgt. Barry Maurice Jones; I am an American
soldier, serving in the military with the army鈥檚 3rd
infantry division. With a very desperate need for
assistance, I have summed up courage to contact you.

I found your contact particulars in an address journal on
the internet. I am seeking your kind assistance to move the
sum of US$8m (eight million United States dollars) to you ;
as far as I can be assured that my share will be safe in
your care until I complete my service here.

Source of money:

Some money in US dollars were discovered in dog kennels at a
farm house and guest houses in an estate near one of
Saddam鈥檚 old palaces in Baghdad, Iraq during an operation,
and it was agreed by Staff Sgt. Kenneth Buff, Sgt. 1st Class
Daniel Van Ess and I that some part of this money be shared
amongst us before informing anybody about it. Since both of
them saw the money first, they did the informing, while I
played the outsider to protect our interest. This was quite
an illegal thing to do, but I tell you what? No compensation
can make up for the risk we have taken with our lives in
this hell hole, in which my brother in-law was killed by a
road side bomb last time. You will find the story of this
money on the web addresses below:

http://www.right-thoughts.us/index.php/w...

The above figure was given to me as my share, and to conceal
this kind of money became a problem for me, even after the
initial probe of all soldiers of our command which I was
cleared from; so with the help of a British contact working
here and his office enjoy 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, and
believes that it belongs to a British/American medical
doctor who died in a raid here in Iraq, and before giving
up, trusted me to hand over the package to his family in
United States. I have now found a much secured way of
getting the package out of Iraq to the country for you to
pick up, and I will discuss this with you when I am sure
that you are willing to assist me, and I believe that my
money will be well secured in your hand because you have the
fear of God.

I want you to tell me how much you will take from this money
for the assistance you will give to 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 for us soldier鈥檚 here in
Iraq and tarnish the reputation of other services men. I do
not know how long we will remain here, and I have been shot,
wounded and survived two suicide bomb attacks by the special
grace of God, this and other reasons I will mention later
has prompted me to reach out for help, I honestly want this
matter to be resolved immediately, please contact me as soon
as possible with my non-service private email address which
is for now my only way of communication until I specify
otherwise 鈥?br> you can reach me on sgtbmjones@gmail.com

God bless you and your family.

Sgt. Barry Maurice Jones

sgtbmjones@yahoo.com.hk

Ohhhh I didnt answer it, but I reported it to yahoo and marked it as spam and I still get everyday from "him"

Yahoo.com.hk is what Hong Kong? My advice is to gather all the info and call the local FBI office and see what they can do. Obviously this guy is posing as a soldier looking for sympathy from someone. Good for you that you did not fall for it. Call the FBI. It looks like one of those schemes devloped in Africa, leave it to the F'ing Nigerians to try and play on a soldiers morality. Good Luck!

I'd report it to Yahoo. The bottom of the email shows he has an account through them. Otherwise, I'd just mark it as spam and delete it.

Nope. But just say no (no reply-send it to spam). It is a scam and originates outside the us (see the hk on the end.)

This is a new version of an old scam. Usually it's a Nigerian oil minister or Charles Taylors nephew.

You could also forward it to banks. They have a fraud department that works with the goverment.

Sgt. Jones is a homeless waif in Nigeria! Delete-delete-delete

It's a scam. Check out this web site, you'll find many just like it.

http://www.scamorama.com

get the fbi on it. I'm betting it will involved forged money orders or somesuch from Nigeria. That's a Hong Kong email address, so highly doubtful it's somebody in the middle east.

Everyone gets a version of this. I suggest when you get an email of this type simply type into "google" and search the general statement of the email plus the word hoax. Or simply go to snopes.com and look it up yourself. Or you could just provide the info, then sit back and watch your credit go to hell, and your bank accounts empty.

my guess, Sgt. Barry Maurice Jones, is not a real person and someone is trying to pull a scam.
I say ignore it.

I believe 100% that this is a scam....You were probably selected because of the sites that you frequent or the sites that you are registered to.
Check your spyware....
Best of Luck to you, and our soldiers serving.

I'm not sure who to report this to. All I can say is, it's fake, mark it as spam and never open one of those again.
Found a news article, you may want to read entirely through it, talks about that same email:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7020180/

Apparently, that email is a form of the old "Nigerian scam", which invites recipients to help move millions of dollars out of the country.

I saw this on 20/20. They are people that try to scam on you. Some people have fell for it and meet people in person. But don't respond. It's a legit scam.

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