New Version of Nigerian Email Scam

A new version of the old Nigerian email scam, or '419 scam' has been seen in email inboxes lately. This time the twist is the email purports to be from a US soldier in Iraq. This scam is older than the internet, it used to be (and still is) distributed by fax before email became popular.
It basically is a money laundering proposal, a version of advance fee fraud, to supposedly smuggle funds out of Nigeria, or Iraq, using your assistance. It states you will be handsomely rewarded for your assistance.

Unbelievably, five billion US dollars have been scammed out of people worldwide that responded to this scam. This organized crime is said to be the third largest industry in Nigeria, where stolen funds are almost never recovered.
You can watch an ABC news segment they produced on this here on YouTube.
More information on this scam can be found here and here.

Do not respond to ANY email spam offers! It only perpetuates the spam problem for the internet as a whole, as there is practically no cost to the spammers to send out millions of emails to reach the small percentage of people who actually respond. Spam increases costs to ISPs that have to filter it and deal with increased email volume.