Mail warns financial institutions of "payback"

[coyote]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Threatening letters containing a suspicious white powder mailed to three U.S. financial institutions warn "it's payback time," according to a text released by the FBI on Thursday.

More than 50 letters, with identical or similar threatening language, were sent to Chase Bank offices, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision, the FBI said.

"Steal tens of thousands of people's money and not expect repercussions (sic). It's payback time. What you just breathed in will kill you within 10 days. Thank (redacted) and the FDIC for your demise," said the text posted on the FBI Web site.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49N03Q200...

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Isn't this terrorism? It's kind of like scaring the population and a governmental body into turning over more than a trillion dollars that cannot be paid off for generations because of some preventable boogie-man?

Oh wait that's a different type of terrorism.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Why Chase, and not all the others?

Sounds like a disgruntled account holder.

[soulcore]

2. "thank 'redacted' and the FDIC...'

I wonder what was redacted?

Thank God?
Thank Allah?
Thank Bush?
Thank Obama?
Thank the Fonzie?

I bet that little snippet of (redacted) information would shed a greater light on the perpetrator and his motives.