Heather Ross, Tikrit-American Red Cross, Iraq

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From:     HEATHER ROSS <cullscottage@eircom.net>
Reply-To:     rheatherross@gmail.com <rheatherross@gmail.com>
Subject:     Re: From Heather Ross ........................
Date:     Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:47:40 +0100 (IST) (11:47 EDT)

Dear Friend,

My name is Heather Ross, Assistant Station Manager, Tikrit-American Red Cross working here in Iraq with the military. With a desperate need for assistance, I have summed up courage to contact you. I am seeking your kind assistance to move the sum of $4.8million (Four Million Eight hundred thousand United States Dollars) to you as far as I can be assured that the money will be used for charity and humanitarian purposes as strictly requested by the owner.

Source of money: The money belonged to Cpl. Dustin R. Brisky, 26, of Round Rock, Texas, died June 4 in Tallil, Iraq, of wounds suffered from an explosion. He was assigned to the Army Reserve’s 952nd Engineer Company, Paris, Texas. The unit was attached to the 92nd Engineer Battalion, 3rd Sustainment Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, and Fort Stewart, Ga. This money was part of his share from the money they discovered in barrels at a farmhouse near one of Saddam's old palaces in Tikrit, Iraq during a rescue operation. He was hoping to move the money out of Iraq before he died. I was attending to him when he confided in me and told me about the money. His last wish was that I should help him make arrangement to move the money out of Iraq and then contact you to receive it so that you can use it to help the less privileged and other charitable activities that will uplift and profit humanity and mankind.

With the help of a British contact working here, whose office enjoys immunity, I was able to get the package out of Iraq to the United Kingdom where it is quite safe. Now the British contact does not know the real contents of the package. She believes that they are personal valued properties of the late Dustin Brisky who trusted me to hand over the package to his family before he died. Now I have just found a very secured way of delivering this package to you without any problems. Now I have agree to do this with you which I will want you to keep it highly confidential between the both of us, and I have decided to split the money this way, 50% goes to the charity organization and less privilege, 20% for you, 20% for me while 10% will be map out for expenses inquired during the process of delivery of the consignment to you. I will discuss this with you when I receive your response to this mail assuring me of your willingness and capability to handle this safely and disburse the money as instructed by the late Dustin Brisky.

Please I want you to keep this matter absolutely confidential as any leakage of this information will be too bad for those of us serving in Iraq. I do not know how long we will still be here in Iraq, but whatever happens, I will be in constant touch with you. Remain blessed as I await your urgent response to this mail. Please do send your response to my safe email account: (rheatherross@gmail.com)

Heather Ross.

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