Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Paulson/Bernake Bailout May be Scam


Today all taxpayers in the United States received a request from the Treasury Department which many are calling “a scam”. If you receive the following email (subject line “We Will Fix This Mess”) delete it immediately and Do Not Forward!


Dear Taxpayer,
We are top officials of the Federal Government who are interested in secure of many valuable mortgage backed securities which are presently being trapped in Nigeria.

By virtue of not having any funds top US banks cannot take advantage of these very excellent deals therefore we solicit your assistance in enable us transfer into your account many trillion dollar of high rated securities but first we need 10% or US$700,000,000,000(700 billion dollars) to be used in settle of taxation, bribes, fees, expenses, handling, postage, staples and etc.

Please note that this is 100% safe with no risk! But you must hurry right now to get transfer to us this 10% fees. You have seven (7) days only or all your banks accounts, 401K and etc. will not be worth even as much as small piece toilet paper. Please forward account information/ social security number/ birth date and mother’s maiden name to:

Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW Washington, D.C. 20220

Yours Faithfully,
Henry Paulson Okon
Ben Bernake Makombo

2 comments:

Linda said...

these guys are all supporting their old boy club well actually their frat boy club. Paulson in particular. now mcpain wants to halt the campaign to get active in dc...i looked and he has not voted for anything since last spring while barack voted in aug 08 can this be true?

Thomas Paine said...

It's a joke email meant to look like the Nigerian email scams. Paints their bailout in the same light.