<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><pre>Here's another funny one, along the lines of the Nigerian email<br>scam...<br><br><br><br>Dear American:<br><br>I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with <br>a transfer of funds of great magnitude.<br><br>I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has <br>had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 <br>billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be <br>most profitable to you.<br><br>I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my <br>replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you <br>may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement <br>in the 1990s. This transactin is 100%
safe.<br><br>This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the <br>funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in <br>the names of our close friends because we are constantly under <br>surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a <br>reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the <br>funds can be transferred.<br><br>Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account <br>numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to <br>wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission <br>for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond <br>with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect <br>the funds.<br><br>Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson<br><br><br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>