New Email Scam - Help Get NIGERIAN Off SPACE STATION- He Is Stranded

[matcom]

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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.

http://www.wftv.com/technology/3367746/detail.html

[LynneSin]

1. What's with Nigeria???

I mean, doesn't Senegal, Gabon, Ghana or other Western African countries have royal family members in 'need'? I swear if I got an email from someone in Benin in dire need, I'd probably help them out :eyes:

[htuttle]

4. I've gotten them from Charles Taylor's relatives

Also from several members of the extended Hussein family.

:shrug:

[LynneSin]

5. Ironically - guess who Charles Taylor's best bud is....

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Jeebus, I hope they got him off the Russian Space Station...

...Mir burned up in the Earth's atmosphere a few years ago. He'd be a very crispy Nigerian now.

[Don_G]

3. I Might Help Out

If it were the Jamaican Bobsled Team.

[RebelOne]

6. There is also one going around from William Shakespeare.

[sniffa]

7. no, no

it is my reLative who is stranded on the space station. if you heLp rescue him, you wiLL be rewarded handsomeLy.

pLease send your bank account #, sociaL security #, mother's maiden name, daiLy scheduLe, and List of your deepest, darkest fears to my pm box.

[LynneSin]

8. My deepest, darkest fears....

is that you'll get my bank account #, sociaL security #, mother's maiden name, daiLy scheduLe, and List of your deepest, darkest fears to my pm box.

:eyes:

[RebelOne]

9. Go to the scam baiters Web site.

http://www.419eater.com

Some real funny stuff there.

[sniffa]

10. "i need Amanda Buttram"

that site is great. thanx