In the early 90's there were scammers calling the elderly, really going after ones that were very weak minded or senile, convincing them that they could win a big cash prize but needed to send some money to be eligible. Sent us to collect the checks. I knew a lady in her 80's who had sent $85k. They kept calling her, saying each time that she was really close to winning but they needed a little more to increase her chances. FedEx was advising us to make the pickups without commenting on whether it was legitimate or not. Had a man in his 50's stick a shotgun in the face of one of our couriers. His mother lost alot too and he thought we were in on it.
As to the idea that Iraqi Dinars are an investment, what a crock that is. Currency markets just simply don't work that way. It may sound plausible, thus the deceit, but you will not be able to hand over a couple hundred Dollars worth of Dinars to a bank in exchange for several hundred thousand Dollars because, to quote my customer, "they now have a legitimate gov't so soon the money will be at par with ours. Heck, it could happen tomorrow." There are hard currencies, the Euro, the U.S. Dollar(still the world's reserve currency), the British Pound, the Swiss Franc, the Japaneses Yen. There are a second tier of respected currencies that are traded in legitimate markets too. All others, including the Dinar, are very weak and have their value determined by major brokers in London, New York, and Tokyo. They don't gain value quickly, and usually will have new currency printed with less zeros to replace the currency that has miniscule value, such as 25,000 Dinars to the Dollar having 3 zeros lopped off so that now 25 equal one Dollar in the new currency. The guy holding 100,000 Dinar who thought someday it would be worth $100k in U.S. Dollars will find out that he has to exchange for new Dinars first. He now has 100 Dinars, or 4 Dollars. I'm not saying specifics here, just generally this is what happens. You will not be able to show up at a bank and say I've got $100k or a million Dinars, give me that much in Dollars. Anyone thinking that has been duped. Why would anyone sell Dinars for relatively little when they could exchange them for millions? It's a scam, and FedEx knows it. But FedEx is making a nice profit on all those COD's so why be a hero and save people their life savings? Gotta love those who say things like I don't know, it may very well turn into a good investment. Yep, I'm just a courier, what do I know? If I see a car with 4 flat tires struggling to get across a railroad track while a fast freight is barreling down on it, do I just cross my fingers and hope for the best? No, I tell the driver to stop and wait for the train to go by, and make him realize what the terrible result would be if he insists on continuing.