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Nigerian stranded on Russian space station, send money and get rich!
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| 06/01/2004
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Posted on 06/02/2004 10:05:24 AM PDT by Phantom Lord
'Stranded Astronaut' Called Worst E-Mail Scam
There's an e-mail going around that asks people to help rescue a Nigerian military official who took a secret flight to the Russian space station, only to end up stranded.
If you send $3,000 to help get him back to Earth, the message says, you can share in the $15 million in "flight pay and interest" he gets.
Sound too good to be true? The people at the New York State Consumer Protection Board think so, too.
They have named the hoax the most outrageous example of advance-fee e-mails, which are also known as the Nigerian, or 419, scam. The messages often claim to be from a representative of a former government or royal official from Africa, and say that for a few thousands dollars, millions will be put into your bank account.
Of course, you have to send the scammers your account numbers and other information first.
The title was awarded as part of a contest to show how dangerous such e-mail scams can be.
E-mail about the stranded man claims that he has been in orbit since 1990.
The FBI reports that individual victims of these advance-fee scams often lose thousands of dollars, more than any other type of Internet fraud.
Excerpts from some of the 2,000 entries in the contest can be found on the consumer agency's Web site.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dumbass; fool; idiots; lostinspace; moron; numbnuts; stupid
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Anyone who fell for this deserves to be scammed out of their money.
To: Phantom Lord
Back off jacka$$es. I've got first dibs. Wire transfer already sent. You snooze yu luze.
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:09:13 AM PDT
by
mlbford2
(Sorry for spelling errors, I'm a product of a state university)
To: lowbridge
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:11:32 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Rush may be "show prep for the media", but FR is show prep for RUSH!)
To: Phantom Lord
The title was awarded as part of a contest to show how dangerous such e-mail scams can be. Dangerous only to the dangerously gullible. ......And this particular title should've set off alarm bells in even them.
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:12:03 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Constitution Day; lowbridge
Awwwww......you beat me to it! *I* wanted to ping the *Master*!
:-)
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:12:47 AM PDT
by
dansangel
(*PROUD to be a knuckle-dragging, toothless, inbred, right-wing, Southern, gun-toting Neanderthal *)
To: Phantom Lord
I'll give $3000.00 to set up missle shots to shoot them down.
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:13:52 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/" target="_blank">miserable failure)
To: Tribune7
To: Phantom Lord
How much is 3,000 Nigerian dollars in real money?
To: Phantom Lord; Constitution Day; dansangel
I heard about this one. In fact, as a result of this one,
419legal.org is having a
competition in which you write up your own funny scam letter, submit it to them, and the winner gets "a years free website hosting package, which includes unlimited webspace, bandwidth, email boxes, free site stats and much more"
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:20:38 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
("You are an American. You are my brother. I would die for you." -Kurdish Sergeant)
To: Malesherbes
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:21:15 AM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
To: Phantom Lord
D'OH! You mean I've already sent my money and Dr. General Ali Alhambra Mohammed Qiyada won't be returning to Earth??
To: lowbridge
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:21:56 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Rush may be "show prep for the media", but FR is show prep for RUSH!)
To: Malesherbes
How much is 3,000 Nigerian dollars in real money?It's a nigerdly amount....
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:21:56 AM PDT
by
freebilly
(Vote Kerry-- 1 Billion Muslims Can't Be Wrong....)
To: Constitution Day
To: martin_fierro; dansangel
I have fast fingers today.
Maybe that means I need to get back to work.
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:24:44 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Rush may be "show prep for the media", but FR is show prep for RUSH!)
To: Constitution Day
Maybe that means I need to get back to work.Rats...now that you've reminded me, I guess that means me, too.
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:32:00 AM PDT
by
dansangel
(*PROUD to be a knuckle-dragging, toothless, inbred, right-wing, Southern, gun-toting Neanderthal *)
To: lowbridge
the winner gets "a years free website hosting package, which includes unlimited webspace, bandwidth, email boxes, free site stats and much more"Cool! Are you in? If so, good luck!
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:33:17 AM PDT
by
dansangel
(*PROUD to be a knuckle-dragging, toothless, inbred, right-wing, Southern, gun-toting Neanderthal *)
To: Phantom Lord
Nigerian stranded on Russian space station, send money and get rich!It's about time these nerds came up with a different story. That old million dollar bank transfer scam, was starting to wear thin.
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:41:17 AM PDT
by
Mark17
To: Phantom Lord
Why do I have a feeling that the most money came from ......... Palm Beach County, Florida?
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:46:45 AM PDT
by
PetroniDE
(A.N.S.W.E.R and IndyMedia -- AMERICA'S FIFTH COLUMN !!!)
To: dansangel
Cool! Are you in? If so, good luck! Not yet. I might take part. I need some time to come up with a good story. I got untill Dec 31.
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posted on
06/02/2004 10:46:54 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
("You are an American. You are my brother. I would die for you." -Kurdish Sergeant)
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