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Your urgent help needed (not really)
Apologies if this has been posted already. I thought you'd enjoy it the Nigeria email scam hilarity.
Your Urgent Help Needed
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a
transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had
crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion
dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable
to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as
Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the
leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This
transactin is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as
quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our
close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer
advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act
as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers
and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov
so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive
that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that
will be used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson
Re: Your urgent help needed (not really)
Wow, what a promising business opportunity. I will be sure to contact him so we can proceed with the "transactin."
As I clicked post, I got the joke. I am a little slow tonight.
This is hilarious!
Your post is still funny - I thought you HAD gotten the joke!