Email Scam Targets Gold Star Wives

Below is a reproduction of an email that has been targeting Gold Star Wives and other military groups. Please be aware that it is a confirmed scam.

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From: reb mikha To: personalized with your name Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 9:40 AM Subject: Hello personalized with your name /could you please respond as soon as possible.

Hello personalized with your name ,

I know naturally my email will come to you as a surprise since we have not met, permit me however to introduce myself to you. I am Rebecca Mikha, I am presently in Iraq working as a volunteer with the american forces camp. My late husband Corp. James Smith (of blessed memory) made it possible for me to know about (S.M W) Gold Star Wives of America. May God bless you for the moral support you reach out to the family in this time of sorrow.

I am contacting you, perhaps you could be of great help in a matter which has to do with the receipt of funds kept away by my late husband Corp James Smith (of blessed memory), who was killed here in iraq.

I will give more details when I hear from you, but please let me know if I can confidentially write to you through this email.

Find here below my personal photograph, I hope you like it. To view my photograph and the website.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/investigations/iraqi_heritage.htm

I await for your urgent response.

REBECCA MIKHA

Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. is a nonprofit national military widows service organization chartered by the United States Congress.