Goodday to you,

I know you would be surprised to read from someone relatively unknown to you.
My name is Ruth Alpern,wife of Bernard Madoff,Chief Executive of Bernard L.
Madoff Investment Securities LLC.

I would like to share some highly personal information with you.For certain
reasons,I also would like to keep some information for now until you have found
the time to visit this website stated below to enable you have an insight as to
what I'm intending to share with you, believing,that it would be of your
desired interest one-way or the other.

http://web.archive.org/web/http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/bernard-madoff
http://web.archive.org/web/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25180237-643,00.html

Could you get back to me having visiting the above website to enable us discuss
more on the way forward.I must say that I'm very uncomfortable sending this
message to you without knowing truly if you would misconstrue the importance
and decide to go public. In this regards, I will not hold back to say that the
essence of this message is confidentiality.

I will be more elaborate in my next message in this regards.Can you send me an
email confirming that you have visited the site and that you have an idea of my
intentions?I will await your thoughts via my personal email:ralpern@itimes.com

Kind regards,

Ruth Alpern