I have received e-mails from hundreds of African diplomats and even the widow of Jonas Savimbi, all asking me to help them with lucrative financial transactions. But I’ve never gotten the Nigerian scam from an alleged American military man.

My name is Sgt kenny Baker, Jr. I am in the Engineering military unit here in Ba’qubah in Iraq, we have about $10, Million US dollars that we want to move out of the country. My partners and I need a good partner someone we can trust. It is oil money and legal….

He is “waiting for my urgent response.” I especially love the fact that he gives a yahoo.co.uk email address.