this is a *FACEPALM* moment, isn't it...

"The major thing I demand from you is the absolute assurance that the funds will be safe and you will not sit on it when it is transferred into your account"

Oops.

Wait wait wait. Did Madoff fall for this, or was it just in his inbox?

I really hope it was the former.

Scammer got scammed. Haha.

Boy, is he going to be pissed when he learns that his 3.5 mil went to a ponzi scheme.

Africans have terrible luck, it seems.

That email offends my moral value.

I feel so sorry for Mr. [redacted].

They must have just skimmed the letter,

"Blah, blah, blah invest...blah, blah my entire life and future depend on this money..."

Must be a Madoff victim!

I also love page 77: "No, this email's not real, it's [deadfake.com]"

I hope he doesn't mind discussing his lucrative investment with Mr. Madoff in the visiting room of a jailhouse.

@enm4r: So you just have the one?

this is pretty funny, but at the same time...srsly? doesn't the AG have an entire building full of people that read his briefs before he goes to court?

People speculate that Madoff was just working for a larger organization...perhaps he is the front man for a huge group of Nigerians?

@AlteredBeast: I was thinking maybe he gave all of the money to Nigerians.

Oh, this would've made my day almost as much as the proof of claim from the guy claiming for tens of millions for his own wrongful death. Possibly more. Hard to say.

@Corporate_guy: Actually, US Attorney got scammed. This is from a list of emails released by the US Attorney's office which they received from "Madoff victims"

Ah, rube outrage never ceases to entertain.

The lack of "I hope he gets raped in prison" emails is sort of surprising though.

@zentex: Yes, yes it is.

Hmm, am I the only one who wants to start a Nigerian-esk scam but stating that I was a Madoff partner and need help to unload the stolen cash?

@Rebecca Brown: Read read read the article.

@Rebecca Brown: Neither. The prosecuting attorney for the Madoff case asked victims to send letters about their experiences to show the judge to make a case for sentencing.

This was one of the emails he got in return, which, for some reason he submitted anyway. It's pretty clear the US Attorney's staff didn't read the emails very thoroughly. Or at all.

@mac-phisto: Perhaps the staffer assigned to this decided to spend time reading blogs instead?

"Yeah, boss, we read them all. Looks good."

Looking at the pdf now. None of these emails actually seem to be from real victims -- it's just . WTF happened here? I'm thinking the US Atty figured nobody would ever read this and it wouldn't go public?

Or maybe this is just some paperwork to meet some technical requirements that doesn't need to have any impact on the actual case.

I have a feeling that "REPLY ME" is going to be my new e-mail signoff...

This just reinforces my faith in the American legal system.

Madoff really messed up. Had he invested with this gentleman and replied to the E-mail that told him that he won the Lotery in the UK he could have profited handsomly and paid off all of his investors and no one would have been the wiser.

/sarcasm

Further evidence that the Nigerian 419 scam will continue without US Government legal interference...

Did the Nigerian Government invest with Madoff?
WoW, he really was good.

Expect a massive wave of early deaths and princes dying in plane crashes with no surviving relatives, leaving behind tens of millions of Dollars as retaliation for the deeds of one man.

What makes this even funnier is that someone had to manually black out the sender information.

@m4ximusprim3: Hope he gets his money back!

The really sad / funny part is given the monstrous level of attention and anger over this case, they would then handle it in such a further inept manner. Haven't they ever heard of politics, appearances and spin before?

Unless of course this was a courier or clerk joke on Cuomo, substituting or inserting it in there while somebody wasn't looking right before the judge got it.

I can just imagine the political cartoonists salivating over this one and how they will illustrate it.

Maybe someone needs to dress up as a Nigerian scammer and visit him in jail asking for money lol. "You have ruined my chances for millions in America! My fields and cows are all barren now...etc." That would actually be funny - have people stalk him every day and force him to sit there and put up with it through the glass to eternity. He can't leave as long as someone is there saying or screaming something.

I like to think that the DA knew it was there - he just put it in to see who was paying attention. That's probably giving them too much credit, though.

Something along those lines was what Donald Trump was saying. DISCLAIMER: I like the Donald as much as a hook in my eye, but when the guy talks money you have to listen. That's his territory. He was saying that based on the amount of money schemed he HAD TO HAVE accomplices. No one can keep this much money running for so log if the business were real; now if it was a scam it would take even more people and more effort. You do not get to scam 50 billion from two or three cats. You have to have a sizeable amount of clients. Then how comes he was the only one doing this? Was it just him making the calculations for the monthly or quarterly reports? Was he the only one typing the account reports? Who was the one keeping track of the tiers of each client, just him? I dunno, but in this one I side with the Donald. There is no way in the universe he was the only one doing this. It is mathematically impossible, and I'm unanimous on that!