At 1:17 PM -0500 3/29/03, Farouk Al-Bashar wrote:
>Re: Urgent Assistance Needed
>
>By way of introduction I am Eng. Farouk Al-Bashar, I represent my
>family as the oldest son of the Al-Bashar family, who are the
>descendants of Ibrahim Al-Bashar Ali from one of the oil rich areas
>in Iraq. Over the years my family has acquired huge sums of money
>from royalties for the exploration of oil in our region but over the
>past 15 years, Saddam Hussein and his gangs of bandits have taken
>our oils without payments and we can not complain as those who did
>are all dead. In the wake of the Gulf War of 1990, our family
>withdrew most moneys that remain in coded bank accounts that Saddam
>did not find and we hide it in a secret chamber underground, where
>it remained safe until after the war. At the end of Gulf war, we
>moved the funds into a private vault of a security company in
>Baghdad, where it was until we collected it a few days ago on the
>fear of the eminent war with America.