Finally the rich spammer moves from Nigeria:

[Fat Tone]

found in my 'junk email' folder (thanks to Spam Assassin) this morning:

Dear Friend
I am a member of the contract award committee of the republican ministry of petroleum and
resources of iraq under the regime of sadam hussein. I am in search of an agent to assist us in transfer of
seventeen million five hundred thousand united state dollars($17,500.000.00)
and subsequent investment in properties in your country, you will be required to
(1) Assist in the transfer of the said sum
(2) Advise on lucrative area for investment
(3) Assist us in purchase of properties.
If you decide to render your service to us in this regard, 20% of the total
sum of the above will be for you, and 10% for any expenses incured during the process.
Please if you are interested kindly sent an email to me so that i can give you the modalities.Please note this transaction should be at utmost secrecy for the safety of this transaction.
For further details in this transaction you can email me at (*@*.*)and i await your immediate response as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely,
ISA MOSHOUD.

Seems to me he's a little out of the loop - maybe he's friends with the information minister?

[Fat Tone]

Just incase anyone is tempted, this is what Spam Assassin says about it:

X-Spam-Score: (+++++++++) 9.1
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Report: 9.1/5.0
MIME_BOUND_MANY_HEX (2.9 points) Spam tool pattern in MIME boundary
US_DOLLARS (1.4 points) BODY: Nigerian scam key phrase (million dollars)
US_DOLLARS_3 (0.6 points) BODY: Nigerian scam key phrase ($NN,NNN,NNN.NN)
MIME_LONG_LINE_QP (0.3 points) RAW: Quoted-printable line longer than 76 characters
SUBJ_ALL_CAPS (1.1 points) Subject is all capitals
NIGERIAN_BODY (2.8 points) Message body has multiple indications of Nigerian spam

[Brian Ellis]

Tony

I received my first Iraqi one about a week ago, but I've received similar offers from at least 20 other countries.

Surely no one falls for these, now?

About 15 years ago, when it was done by snailmail, a guy in Yverson, Switzerland, fell for it and not only lost his $50k deposit for "good faith", he was arrested on arrriving at Lagos airport for illegally importing money and did 3 months in a Nigerian clink. It was surmised that the crook was working with the immigration guys.

[Fat Tone]

Originally posted by Brian Ellis
Surely no one falls for these, now?

You'd be surprised how many people contact me rather worriedly about emails like these, wondering if they should report them to some authority!

LOL at your story

[Technoid]

hm.....
A swedish reporter team traced these "letters" to the netherlands and got too close
They had to flee to avoid being assasinated