I’m Rich! Rich! Thanks, Mr. Secretary, my check is in the mail…
This almost-minor-masterpiece came floating in today, just in time to pay the mortgage:
U.S. Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
Website: http://www.treasury.gov
Date: 9/11/2011
Dear Beneficiary,
I am Timothy F. Geithner. The Secretary of the Treasury under the U.S Department of the Treasury. The executive agency responsible for promoting economic prosperity and ensuring the financial security of the United States. However, by virtue of my position as the Secretary of the Treasury, I have irrevocably instructed the Federal Reserve Bank to approve your fund release via issuance of a CERTIFIED cheque drawn on Standard Chartered Bank california, USA, which is the authourized bank for your fund release.
However, as a former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and being a versatile banker of repute with about 25 years experience in the financial sector, I wish to state categorically that a CERTIFIED cheque of $6,500,000.00 USD drawn on Standard Chartered Bank will be issued and sent to you via the US Postal Service at no cost to you. Every and all cost associated with the delivery of the cheque has been pre-paid by the U.S Government. The only cost associated with your fund release is the cost of processing a “Fund Clearance Certificate”, which is estimated to the value of $150.00 USD. The “Fund Clearance Certificate” is required in accordance with the U.S Monetary Policy; and it is the ONLY expenses you will incurr before the cheque will be sent to your mailing address. Hence, you are advised to send the $150.00 USD via Western Union or MoneyGram ONLY to “Charles Green” who is the nominated receiver for the $150.00 USD. The wiring details is stated below:
Receiver: Charles Green
Receiver’s culver city, california, USA
Test Question: Fruit
Answer: Apple
Amount: $150.00 USD
You can get more facts about the U.S. Department of the Treasury on the link below: http://www.treasury.gov/about/Pages/Secretary.aspx
Please get back to me with a quick confirmation of your mailing addresss and the payment details for the $150.00 USD.
Yours Sincerely,
Timothy F. Geithner
Secretary of the Treasury
ME: Yeah, he did have one “s” too many at the very end, but it’s the thought, not the spelling, that matters, after all.
What a country! What a guy! And he doesn’t even look Nigerian…
You wonder if anyone ever falls for these, then you read they do, and you wonder how the fall for them twice, and then you read they do that, too…P.T. Barnum once said no one ever lost money because they underestimated the intelligence of the American public, and I think this sort of thing proves him right…
Hmmm… “cheque”… “authourized”…
I want to see Geithner’s birth certificate, I don’t know if he was born in this country or not.
you really think he would not do this for some beer money?
he’s a crook….small chance it actually IS him
Well, the way Geither’s compatriots are and how he’s been about paying his taxes (not to mention the fees and other “revenue enhancements” for continued “investment” a lately) this may be legit… although I still wouldn’t expect to see $6.5mil any tiem soon.
Now THAT! is the very definition of “irony”!
You must know however that I say that as researcher/writer whose interests frequently find him back at PNAC, or with Wolfowitz and his early efforts to redirect US military might somewhere…anywhere!…rather than see the cold war’s end as an end to their own relevence in the larger picture.
To now entertain the notion of Tim Gheitner handing out multi-million dollar bonus checks to Micheal Ledeen…well….it just tickles the heck right of me. What can I say?
Oh dear. Forgot to mention the most important bit regarding why I find this particular confluence of subject-matter to be so rewarding re: my irony bone (not to be conmfused….).
I’m a liberal! (albeit one with little favorable to say about most others claiming the same infirmity). So a Nigerian scammer attempting a wholly “made in America” fraud on non other than the same micheal ledeen accused of doing much the same, and from the same country no less!!!….well! (If I have to spell it any further than that, it won’t make any sense regardless of how you hold the page).