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Really funny scam letter to my inbox!

Posted: 2003-01-27 07:36am
by Faram
Got this in my mailbox :D

It is a blast!
GEORGE WALKER BUSH wrote:IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED:

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL

FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH
DEAR SIR / MADAM,

I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON NOR BY CORRESPONDENCE. I CAME TO KNOW OF YOU IN MY SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO HANDLE A VERY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO AN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM CONFIDENCE.

I AM WRITING YOU IN ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE PRIMARILY TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE IN ACQUIRING OIL FUNDS THAT ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ. MY PARTNERS AND I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING A TRANSACTION BEGUN BY MY FATHER, WHO HAS LONG BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THE EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND BRAVELY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.

IN THE DECADE OF THE NINETEEN-EIGHTIES, MY FATHER, THEN VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SOUGHT TO WORK WITH THE GOOD OFFICES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ TO REGAIN LOST OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. THIS UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE WAS SOON FOLLOWED BY A FALLING OUT WITH HIS IRAQI PARTNER, WHO SOUGHT TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING EMIRATE OF KUWAIT, A WHOLLY-OWNED U.S.-BRITISH SUBSIDIARY.

MY FATHER RE-SECURED THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF KUWAIT IN 1991 AT A COST OF SIXTY-ONE BILLION U.S. DOLLARS ($61,000,000,000). OUT OF THAT COST.

THIRTY-SIX BILLION DOLLARS ($36,000,000,000) WERE SUPPLIED BY HIS PARTNERS IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER PERSIAN GULF MONARCHIES, AND SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS ($16,000,000,000) BY GERMAN AND JAPANESE PARTNERS.

BUT MY FATHER'S FORMER IRAQI BUSINESS PARTNER REMAINED IN CONTROL OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ITS PETROLEUM RESERVES.

MY FAMILY IS CALLING FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN FUNDING THE REMOVAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ACQUIRING THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF HIS COUNTRY, AS COMPENSATION FOR THE COSTS OF REMOVING HIM FROM POWER.

UNFORTUNATELY, OUR PARTNERS FROM 1991 ARE NOT WILLING TO SHOULDER THE BURDEN OF THIS NEW VENTURE, WHICH IN ITS UPCOMING PHASE MAY COST THE SUM OF 100 BILLION TO 200 BILLION DOLLARS ($100,000,000,000 - $200,000,000,000), BOTH IN THE INITIAL ACQUISITION AND IN LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT.

WITHOUT THE FUNDS FROM OUR 1991 PARTNERS, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE THE OIL REVENUE TRAPPED WITHIN IRAQ. THAT IS WHY MY FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES ARE URGENTLY SEEKING YOUR GRACIOUS ASSISTANCE. OUR DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUES IN THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION INCLUDE THE SITTING VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RICHARD CHENEY, WHO IS AN ORIGINAL PARTNER IN THE IRAQ VENTURE AND FORMER HEAD OF THE ALLIBURTON OIL COMPANY, AND CONDOLEEZA RICE, WHOSE PROFESSIONAL DEDICATION TO THE VENTURE WAS DEMONSTRATED IN THE NAMING OF A CHEVRON OIL TANKER AFTER HER.


I WOULD BESEECH YOU TO TRANSFER A SUM EQUALING TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (10-25 %) OF YOUR YEARLY INCOME TO OUR ACCOUNT TO AID IN THIS IMPORTANT VENTURE. THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL FUNCTION AS OUR TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY. I PROPOSE THAT YOU MAKE THIS TRANSFER BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH (15TH) OF THE MONTH OF APRIL.


I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD MAKE ANYONE APPREHENSIVE AND WORRIED. BUT I AM ASSURING YOU THAT ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THE DAY. A BOLD STEP TAKEN SHALL NOT BE REGRETTED, I ASSURE YOU. PLEASE DO BE INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO CO-OPERATE IN THIS TRANSACTION, PLEASE CONTACT OUR INTERMEDIARY REPRESENTATIVES TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE MATTER.

I PRAY THAT YOU UNDERSTAND OUR PLIGHT. MY FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL. PLEASE REPLY IN STRICT CONFIDENCE TO THE CONTACT NUMBERS BELOW.

SINCERELY WITH WARM REGARDS,

GEORGE WALKER BUSH

Posted: 2003-01-27 07:55am
by Dalton
Well! A twist on the Nigerian scam...and a stupid twist at that.

Posted: 2003-01-27 08:03am
by Mr Bean
Indeed

And may I add the long standing skiped point

Bush Jr and Sr are Texas Oil fokes

More Oil on the market-Less Profits for everyone else except the person who has the new oil
Exxon is the only American company to own a large percentage in Middle-East Oil and none of that lies in Iraq(Thats a French and Belgium owned company mostly)


Bush and CO don't have any intrests in either Exxon or to my knowledge that French company

Meaning they would fork over Texas oil Company's, In the short term for a few Billion Dollers
By the time the Long-Term rolls around however Busy should have been out of office for quite a few years

Posted: 2003-01-27 10:34am
by SHODAN
Ahem Faram, you actually READ junkmail you receive? :shock:

Posted: 2003-01-27 10:42am
by Coaan
SHODAN wrote:Ahem Faram, you actually READ junkmail you receive? :shock:
:twisted: using someone elses machine like a library's 'course..

But reading the scams that some try and come up with can actually be amusing....and even then there is always junking the junker.... :D fight fire with fire as they say

Posted: 2003-01-27 10:49am
by Admiral Valdemar
It's obviously a scam, apart from the overzealous use of CAPS it is grammatically correct...

Posted: 2003-01-27 10:51am
by Coaan
Admiral Valdemar wrote:It's obviously a scam, apart from the overzealous use of CAPS it is grammatically correct...
Being Grammatically correct does not make something spam, we can all on occasion pull off 'perfect, proper [insert whatever language here]'

:P

Posted: 2003-01-27 11:21am
by Admiral Valdemar
Coaan wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:It's obviously a scam, apart from the overzealous use of CAPS it is grammatically correct...
Being Grammatically correct does not make something spam, we can all on occasion pull off 'perfect, proper [insert whatever language here]'

:P
I was actually referring to the fact that Bush could type so legibly. :wink:

Posted: 2003-01-27 11:24am
by Coaan
Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Coaan wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:It's obviously a scam, apart from the overzealous use of CAPS it is grammatically correct...
Being Grammatically correct does not make something spam, we can all on occasion pull off 'perfect, proper [insert whatever language here]'

:P
I was actually referring to the fact that Bush could type so legibly. :wink:
Bush can type?!...I was thinking you had to know how to spell first...;)
Obviously being Dum- I mean President., he can afford the best spell checkers

Posted: 2003-01-27 11:38am
by Luke Starkiller
Erm, did nobody else catch the sarcasm? It is a take on Income Tax.

Posted: 2003-01-27 05:21pm
by InnerBrat
Luke Starkiller wrote:Erm, did nobody else catch the sarcasm? It is a take on Income Tax.
THANK YOU!
I was beginnign to think I was the only person that saw the obvious joke.

Posted: 2003-01-27 05:28pm
by IRG CommandoJoe
MY PARTNERS AND I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING A TRANSACTION BEGUN BY MY FATHER, WHO HAS LONG BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THE EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND BRAVELY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
What an ass. He bravely served as a pilot in WWII and got shot down two times. Stupid liberal slant. Or the person might actually be that stupid not to know he was a WWII pilot.

Posted: 2003-01-27 05:32pm
by Stormbringer
IRG CommandoJoe wrote:
MY PARTNERS AND I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING A TRANSACTION BEGUN BY MY FATHER, WHO HAS LONG BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THE EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND BRAVELY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
What an ass. He bravely served as a pilot in WWII and got shot down two times. Stupid liberal slant. Or the person might actually be that stupid not to know he was a WWII pilot.
Given that it's a scammer I highly doubt that the person did. Bush Sr. was actually a highly decorated pilot and served with distinction.

Posted: 2003-01-27 05:34pm
by IRG CommandoJoe
Precisely.

Posted: 2003-01-27 08:32pm
by DPDarkPrimus
Too eloquent and too few typos to be Gee Dubya.

Posted: 2003-01-27 08:46pm
by The Dark
innerbrat wrote:
Luke Starkiller wrote:Erm, did nobody else catch the sarcasm? It is a take on Income Tax.
THANK YOU!
I was beginnign to think I was the only person that saw the obvious joke.
Until I read your posts I was seriously beginning to get shaken in my faith in the intelligence of this board.

Posted: 2003-01-27 08:50pm
by HemlockGrey
But...but...I ALREADY DO THIS!

Posted: 2003-01-27 10:21pm
by Exonerate
Hmf, the letter is suprisingly accurate... I wouldn't be too suprised if it really was Bush :lol: