I thought I'd seen it all when it came to the 419 scam e-mails, but this one just floored me:

Dear Friend,

Greetings.Andrew Anderson is my name,an American Soldier in the US Military serving in the 3rd Infantry Division,Patrols Tal Afar, in Iraq.I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of $2,570,000 to the States or any safe country of your choice as far as I can be assured that it will be safe in your care until i complete my service here.

SOURCE OF MONEY:
When on Special Patrol duties on the 24Th of April earlier this year,we found $100m and 90m euros in 31 containers and this money had been hidden behind the false wall of a house searched by my unit based on prior information.You can go to this web link to read about events that took place here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

I do not know for how long i will remain here as I have been lucky to have survived 2 suicide bomb attacks by Pure Divine intervention.If it might be of interest to you then endeavor to contact me.

Email: [email protected]
Respectfully,
Lt. Andrew Anderson

With all of the real soldiers actually dying over there as part of this moronic war, I can't believe the scammers would cross that line and actually expect to get some takers. But then again, maybe there's some ultra-patriotic idiot out there who would do anything -- even fall for such an obvious scam -- in his zeal to "support the troops."

And speaking of obvious scams, here's another message that I received tonight:

Greetings,

Please i am writing to you in pains. I am Jawad Mutaa and i have
searched so hard to contact you. i dont want to die leaving all
that $8million in a foreign bank because i have Oesophageal
cancer. My relations dissapointed me recently. i cant trust them
any more. Please i just want you to give it to charity
Organizations.Please i am not joking about this.if you are
interested please reply me back via email on how to go about it.
Email [email protected], and send me the following
details so i know the gravity of your seriousness and i will send
you more details. but if you are not its ok, i will find someone
else to do it.

NAMES: AGE: OCCUPATION: FULL ADDRESS: GENDER:
PHONE:

God Bless You
Jawad Mutaa

Yeah, right -- you can't trust your family members, but you're willing to trust a complete stranger with $8,000,000?!? And I love how blatant the information request part at the end is, though in truth this information is all pretty easy to find out.

Oh, scammers, when will you ever learn?