46 Comments
A West Virginia man attempting to steal personal information from people applying for fake jobs he had posted finally got caught when his poor grammar skills outed him.

Matthew Don Reed had been pretending he worked for the Division of Natural Resources in order to get people to send birth certificates and other info, along with job applications. He'd hired a man in Chicago to send out letters to people interested in those jobs, but his Chicago friend, upon seeing letters supposedly written by Governor Joe Manchin, was a little suspicious.

Letters lacking the official governor's seal are one thing, but when the governor uses words like "thangs" you know something's up. Part of the letter read "If you got ? please ask Matt," which is awesome if the governor is a teenage girl talking to a friend online, but somewhat hard to swallow in an official letter.

Reed is now held on a $10,000 bond under charges of impersonating a public official, impersonating a state Division of Natural Resources officer and forgery of a public document. So if you plan on committing some kind of massive fraud in the near future, you may want to consider taking a refresher course in English before you get too involved.

From the Web:
What's Wrong With This Sign? (Burbia)
Spell My Finger -- The Solitaire of Scrabble (Adult Swim)