MIA Marine's Name Used in Email Scam

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MIA Marine's Name Used in Email Scam
January 30, 2009
Military.com|by Bryant Jordan

The latest version of a longtime Internet scam has taken a serious turn to the distasteful.

For at least 10 years pretty much anyone with an email address has been subjected to desperate pleas from some official -- usually claiming to be from an African nation -- trying to move millions of dollars out of the country but in need of "a partner" to make it happen. And the recipient of the email is asked to be the trusted partner to make it possible by supplying bank account information -- for which, in return, the recipient gets a significant share of the money.

But an email now circulating claims to be from Marine Capt. John W. Consolvo, who is trying to get to get more than $12.5 million once belonging to Saddam Hussein out of Iraq and into the U.S. or some other "safe country" until such time as he has completes his military service and can collect it. Consolvo, who says he is with 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, offers a "mutually benefiting relationship" to whoever helps him get the money out of Iraq.

Problem is, Capt. John W. Consolvo was a pilot with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 212, 1st Brigade, MAG 24, and he has been missing in action since his F-4 was shot down over Vietnam on May 7, 1972.

The use of the Marine aviator's name in the scheme has obviously shocked his mother, Martha Ann Consolvo of Virginia Beach, Va.


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