UPDATE: Correction! Correction! Ms. Jessica Zafra sent an email to clarify that she did not write this letter. Kevin Allman is the real author.

My apologies to Ms. Zafra, Mr. Allman and everyone.

To Madame Jessica Zafra: Bravo (for this good find)!

Allman‘s Zafra’s reaction to the US economic meltdown will put to shame each and every spammer from Nigeria, they who send us endless pleas for assistance in exchange for gazillions of dollars.

Thanks to Ms. Zafra for the heads up.

From Allman:

Dear American, My Dear Friend:

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America.

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

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 citizen, 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.

Continue reading here where Ms Zafra reposted it.

Update from the US: Barack Obama has rebuffed John McCain’s dare to suspend both presidential campaign (especially the debate) in the light of the crisis. The old man is trailing badly in polls, on whether who is the best economic manager among the two.