A member called 'needneed' sent out a spam message to several members. The forum has not been hacked; the person just took the trouble to send out the same message to individual members of this forum (and judging by the forum logs, that took him/her quite a bit of time
).Anyway: if you received the following message, just ignore it. The member 'needneed' has meanwhile been banned from the forum.
needneed wrote:email me at [email address removed]
Dear friend,
My name is Staff Sgt Gary Marcum ; I am an American soldier, serving in the military with the army’s 3rd infantry division. With a very desperate need for assistance, I have summed up courage to contact you. I regret this informal way of contacting you which I believe would be most effective with regards to the Message I intend to bring to your notice.It is imperative that I adopt this means of communication to safeguard my interest and guarantee that secrecy is not compromised.
I found your contact particulars in an address journal. I am seeking your kind assistance to move the sum of US$8m (eight million United States
dollars) to you in United States; 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’s 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:
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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’s 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 –email me at email me at [email address removed].
God bless you and your family.
SSG.Gary Marcum
3rd Infantry Division
email me at [email addres removed]
