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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:27 pm

Got this in my catcher from a Mr. Warren Buffet.

Quote:

Attn

Reference to the request mail, posted on my official web site and because of numerous donation letter we receive daily ,i have just read your email.

As official procedure demand ,i need the following information for legal verification to enable me approve fund in your favor.
:

1 full name
2.address
3.telephone
4 age
5 sex
6 bank account details for transfer of fund

wishing best of lucky

Your in service

OFFICE OF MR WARREN BUFFET

C/O

Arvind .k

Mrs Babara Frank

Which was confusing in and of itself (and yes, it was green). However, below this opening bit was pure madness:

Quote:

STUDY THE 2009 DONATION SPEAK AND FOLLOW BANK INSTRUCTION.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett plans to donate a total of $37 billion US to a charitable foundation started by his friend and bridge partner Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.

Buffett, 75 years old and in excellent health, announced Sunday that he intends to donate the bulk of his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity that has become famous for its work with HIV, malaria ,children and tuberculosis in the Third World, and with education and library technology in the United States.

<Photo of Buffet and Gates>

Warren Buffett, left, Melinda Gates and Bill Gates met Sunday as Buffett made his big announcement.
(Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Diane Bondareff)

The donation doubles the value of the Gates foundation, already one of the world's richest charities.

"You have committed yourselves to a few extraordinarily important but underfunded issues, a policy that I believe offers the highest probability of your achieving goals of great consequence," Buffett said.
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Buffett also told you that it was better to give his money to an established foundation that was doing good work than expand his own foundation.

"What can be more logical, in whatever you want done, than finding someone better equipped than you are to do it?".

"Who wouldn't select Tiger Woods to take his place in a high-stakes golf game? That's how I feel about this decision about my money."

Buffett is one of the world's best-known investors.

He is chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, an investment firm that is involved in insurance, furniture, carpet, jewelry, restaurants and utility firms. He also has major investments in such companies as H&R Block Inc., Anheuser-Busch and Coca-Cola Co.

Those holdings have made Buffett the second-richest man in the world, with assets of about $44 billion US, second only to Gates, who is worth about $50 billion US.

The amount is believed to be the largest philanthropic donation ever made by one person in the United States, dwarfing donations by such stalwarts as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.

Buffett also pledged one million shares to a foundation established for his late wife, and 350,000 shares each to foundations for his three children.

The money will be distributed in annual donations starting next month.
(Note: CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external expendicture for clearance of donations )

<Photo of Buffet and Gates>
A magazine ad for NetJets featuring Buffett and Microsoft's Bill Gates. NetJets is a fractional jet ownership company owned by Berkshire Hathaway.

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office of warren buffet USA

Anybody recognize the Warren buffet part as theirs? It is a nice bit of baiting.

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:53 pm

Warren Buffet apparently did actually donate to the Gates foundation.

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:55 pm

I got this today also.?? I think it was in responce to an ASEM I sent

Master Baiter Joined: 14 Feb 2009 Posts: 209

Yeah I don't see anything baiter about it - that really did happen. Its basically just a news snip that a baiter snagged and inserted it into his crappy script.

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