Has anyone else received this? I received a very strange email purporting to be from Paul Krugman, regarding Polish shenganigans in Iraq. I have the full text of the email below, in the hopes one of my readers has a clue.
Is it spam? Judge for yourself.
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From: Paul Krugman
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Subject: Re: Private business in Iraq
Date: 31 Oct 2004 22:03:53 +0100
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Corruption in Iraq. This message has been received today.
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*Dear Editor,
*One thing may change the November's election.
_Coalition of corruption_
Polish politics make private business on the war. The corruption range to the
highest authorities.
Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka was earlier the Chief of International
Coordination Commitment in Iraq. As the chief of the commitment, he supported a
choice of Bank Millennium (in which he was a member of the supervisory board) to
the consortium that would menage the Trade Bank of Iraq. Accidentally, the Prime
Minister admitted (in Polish parliament) that he had known how the members of
the commission had voted - nevertheless, he was not a member of the commission.
Another matter regards to the public tender that decided about a contract on
equipment for Iraq's army. In consortium that won the first tender was
"Ostrowski Arms" - the firm that had not a license on the trade of weapons and
whole firm was consists of a few persons. What is interesting in this firm? The
owner and the chief of the firm was Andrzej Ostrowski - a good acquaintance of
President Aleksander Kwasniewski. Mr. Ostrowski had issued a book about the
calendar of the choice of F-16 to Polish army. It was only one book wroted by
him ...and President Kwasniewski wrote an introduction to this book. At present,
Mr. Andrzej Ostrowski is the accused of a trade of weapons without a license.
After the journalist's investigation regards Ostrowski Arms the public tender in
Iraq was cancel. What the tender was it? The firm without license on a trade of
weapons is the one of winners. The firm with a few people staff, not famous in
branch... However, good famous for Aleksander Kwasniewski.
I think you should confirm both events: the run of the choice of the consortium
managing the Trade Bank of Iraq and the choice of the unknown firm without a
license on weapons trade to the consortium that was expected to equip the Iraq's
army.
The international corruption affair will range to the high Bush's administration
and to the highest Polish authorities.
Enclosed please find more details, nevertheless, it is only in Polish:
www.polandsecurities.com/businessinIraq
Best Regards,
Jaroslaw Suplacz
Hmm... I would say SPAM, too badly written to be anything else. It doesn't show up on Snopes.com in any form, so it hasn't been labeled a hoax or anything yet, but still: SPAM.
Interestingly, Poland's Pres is somewhat displeased with us,
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1069242.htm
~B
Posted by: ~B at November 1, 2004 7:22 PM