State Department emails
2019-09-05 20:58:05.200166+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
US offers cash to tanker captains in bid to seize Iranian ships:
“This is Brian Hook . . . I work for secretary of state Mike Pompeo and serve as the US Representative for Iran,” Mr Hook wrote to Akhilesh Kumar on August 26, according to several emails seen by the Financial Times. “I am writing with good news.”
The “good news” was that the Trump administration was offering Mr Kumar several million dollars to pilot the ship — until recently known as the Grace 1 — to a country that would impound the vessel on behalf of the US. To make sure Mr Kumar did not mistake the email for a scam, it included an official state department phone number.
Yeah, I know that when I get messages like this the first thing I do is call the "official" phone number included in the message...