Posted on 02/12/2016 2:45:28 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Nigerian astronaut lost in space needs $3m to get home - could be a scam
The Anorak Inbox features this plea: Nigerian Astronaut is lost in space needs $3Million to come home ...
Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home
Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager
National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)
Plot 555
Misau Street
PMB 437
Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA
Dear Mr. Sir,
REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.
In the 14-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.
Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account or subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.
Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 percent of the transferred sum, while 10 percent shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance 70 percent to other accounts in due course.
Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include downpayment in this financial quarter.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message via my direct number 234 (0) 9-234-2220 only.
Yours Sincerely, Dr. Bakare Tunde Astronautics Project Manager tip@nasrda.gov.ng
http://www.nasrda.gov.ng/
wow
Shoot, I’ve got some 15 year old #10 cans of B&M baked beans I can donate. All he has to do is consume them in one go, exit the station and point his, er, thruster away from that big blue and white sphere taking up most of his view.
Nature will take care of the rest.
Shoot, I’ve got some 15 year old #10 cans of B&M baked beans I can donate. All he has to do is consume them in one go, exit the station and point his, er, thruster away from that big blue and white sphere taking up most of his view.
Nature will take care of the rest.
Whew, I almost fell for it. Third time this week.
Only takes one, and yes, there are.
Unfortunately, that is true. It doesn't cost much if anything for these scammers to send many thousands of these scam emails. Most of them end up in our spam filters or are deleted without opening. But it only takes one or two gullible suckers out of many thousands, if only scammed out a few hundred bucks to make it profitable. If it wasn't profitable, the scammers wouldn't keep doing it.
I was thinking of a comedy.
Along the lines of “The Mouse that Roared” and “The Mouse on the Moon” of the early sixties, a satire of modern politics.
Nigerian astronaut is, as in the original piece, stuck on a forgotten Soviet space station. For twenty-thirty years.
Somehow Nigeria (or fictional African country) hears of it and insists on rescuing its lost astronaut, itself. For some complex reasons of state, the world powers compete to provide a rocket, sabotaging each other, etc. And while this goes on, the poor guy on the space station putters around unknowingly with a forgotten Soviet doomsday device...
To add to the movie scenario, the original cry for help was ignored all these years by being mistaken for a Nigerian scan fax (this scam started by mail, then fax spamming, finally email). But one day, someone, a kind-hearted but not terribly bright person finally responds to the scam email ...
There was a guy who jerked these eople around something fierce. He claimed he sent the requested money to a Nigerian city/town hundreds of miles from the recipient. He then get an email saying the guy made the trip and found no money. Then the "pigeon" would say , "Oh I meant the OTHER city." a hundred miles in the opposite direction.
He even played with a female scammer by asking for identification at one point, which required her to send a photo of herself with a pair of panties on her head. He posted a copy of that beauty.
Sweet!!! I love helping space-trapped astronauts!
Of course, I’ve got like $20.49 in my account........:)
I love to hear stories like that.
That’s a goodie.
Are there really Americans stupid enough to believe this?
if so, this country is doomed.”
You aren't aware that Obama was elected twice?
Sending money for a stranded Nigerian astronaut has more logic behind it!
That's correct. Tell him he can keep his rear up in space. No money from me.
Pinging lowbridge.
I just ordered Abacha Lightyear some Tang. $13.78 on Amazon, makes 22 quarts. Using Amazon Prime, he should have it by Sunday.
It was on the internet. People wouldn't lie on the internet.
As long as he registers and votes democrat that is.
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