I’ve had my share of 411 fraud letters but this one takes the biscuit.
It is reproduced here in full with all the grammar and typos intact
US DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
US Treasury Department
290 Broadway # 3
New York, NY 10007, United States
Fax;+1 509-561-8685
Email; uustrea4surydept@aol.com
From The Desk of US Treasury Secretary Mr. Timothy Geithner
Attn: Beneficiary ,
We have in our treasury $8. Million United State dollars that was transfered by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the 1st December 2009 to the account of one Mr. David Resnick with the below account
co-ordinate. We have stoped this transfer from being completed because we discovered some irregularities concerning the funds in transfer and we decided to stop it from getting into the account of this person until we verify our self,if what the transfering bank said is true or false about your funds.
Brian David Resnick
2063 Mayview Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Bank Accout #: 006108970
Swift code #: 122038251
Bank Name : Wilshire State Bank
6350 Pacific Blvd.
Huntington Park, CA 90255
We want you to please tell us if you did truly authorized the change of your account details for the transfer of your beneficiary funds to this person Mr. David Resnick?
Are you sick and dieing of cancer that you had to authorized this man to collect your money from the central Bank on your behalf?
We demand the right answer’s from you with documents to show that you, at one time did sign writen agreement with this man Mr. Resnick to switch the beneficiary account to his own account and help utilize your money. We demand for an urgent response from you within the next 48hrs or we will have to return the funds back to Central Bank of Nigeria.
Get back to us reconfirming the below details immediately:
FULL NAME
Occupation:
Residential Address:
Age:
Telephone:
Fax:
D.O.B:
Thanks
Respectfully,
Mr. Timothy Geithner.
It reads like a Google Translation of something else. Wish there was a Reverse Google Translator :-) .