A scam torn from today's headlines

Received via email:

Dear Sir,

I have made this contact to you with the hope that you can help me out in this my dilemma / problem. I was the personal aide to the Iraqi minister of education and research. Dr Abd Al khaliq Gafar. That died in the war. Before the war, we had traveled to France to negotiate a contract payment deal on behalf of the Iraqi government on procurement and payment of educational materials and components for the ministry, which entailed him to pay off our customers by cash for onward delivery of the goods via Turkey...

Now that he is Dead and I was able to escape to Egypt for safety on political asylum... [I need you help to get the 28.5 MILLION AMERICAN DOLLARS that he purloined...]

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I await you immediate response.

Remain Blessed.

Regards
El - Mustapha .