Urgently Must Secret Business Relationship

Somebody sent me this on Facebook yesterday, and it's continuing to rocket around the Interwebs today. Pretty funny.

Dear sir or madam,

I must need to ask your support an urgent secret business relationship concerning transfer of funds with great magnitude.

I am being the Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had recent crisis urgently requiring the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion USD. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you. You are described as very honest and most trustworthy recipient.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gramm, lobbyist for UBS, who (God willing) will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a former U.S. congressional leader and the architect of the Palin/McCain Financial Doctrine, you may know him as leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. As such, you can be assured that this transaction is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We must 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 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 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

Heh.