wow!! i thought the Nigeria scam was bad

[almaty 19]

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 transaction 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

[Chica Yeyé 41]

[gwenneh 7]

I LOLed.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

:lol:

[sara..... 371]

lol we get stuff like that all them from usa from just about everywhere now days lol

[AlHayatZween 2]

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

If you have 800 billion laying around, can I have some?

[HAL 9000 96]

Dude for a moment I thought it was a fake scam!

[alienlovechild 75]

Nigeria seizes money 'for Obama'

"The money was for adverts telling Nigerians in the US to vote

Nigerian anti-graft investigators have seized money raised by the head of the Nigerian Stock Exchange to support US presidential candidate Barack Obama.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it would give the money back to those who attended a gala dinner in Lagos last month.

The EFCC said it had seized 74m naira ($630,000, £314,000), but said no Nigerian laws had been broken.

US political parties are not allowed to receive contributions from abroad.

Stock exchange chairwoman Ndi Okereke-Onyuike is also the head of Africans for Obama, a Nigeria-based support group.

She was interviewed by the EFCC after media reports that the Obama campaign had disassociated itself from the group.

There is not one Nigerian who doesn't have a relative or friend in America

Mrs Okereke-Onyiuke said in August there had been a misunderstanding in the press regarding the event.

The money was going to be spent on adverts encouraging Nigerians in the US to vote for Mr Obama, she said.

Tickets to the lavish event in Lagos on 11 August cost more than $21,000 (£11,000) for an eight-person table.

"We never said we were going to donate money for the campaign," she said.

"We paid for the hall and the entertainers and the surplus, we said would be spent on advertisements aimed at persuading Nigerians to tell their relatives in America to register to vote.

"There is not one Nigerian who doesn't have a relative or friend in America. Our aim was to encourage those people to tell their family who have the right to vote in America to vote for Obama."

Jealous

Full-page adverts in major newspapers publicising the event did not mention what the organisers were planning to do with the money.

Tickets to the gala dinner at the Muson Centre, usually used for conferences and trade shows, were split into two price ranges: "gold" and "platinum".

Individual tickets for the more expensive platinum range cost $2,754 (£1,300) with an option to buy a "corporate" table sitting eight for more than $21,000.

She said the press was trying to attack her because they were jealous of her success.

"I am a woman of the highest integrity," she told the BBC News website.

A statement form the EFCC said they had ordered Mrs Okereke-Onyuike to "steer clear of such activities in future".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7592362.stm

[HAL 9000 96]

Pending: EFCC banquet.