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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 02:07 AM
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Beware of this email scam!

From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

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
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 02:17 AM
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1. Perfect!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 02:26 AM
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2. LOL!
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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 02:39 AM
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3. A Must Read moment of levity.
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victoryparty Donating Member (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 02:43 AM
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4. Now THAT is funny stuff!
I really enjoyed that. So true, so true...


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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 03:28 AM
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5. The last name needs to be
Paulson Mobutu Sese Seko

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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 03:45 AM
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6. This is hilarious.
But this is the big scam we all have to worry about more than any of those Nigerian scams.
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