Another 'hilarious' scamming attempt & the American Goatman

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Smudger, Sep 14, 2012.

  1. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    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

    If anyone falls for this, they might possible deserve what they get.

    http://fox13now.com/2012/07/19/photographer-says-goatman-was-descending-peak-to-join-herd/

    He was doing nothing illegal. At the time he wasn't. Goodness knows what he might have been trying to attempt.
     
  2. Cude>2<

    Cude>2< First Team Captain

    Was this an email you received? If so, you lost me at the "He was stranded there in 1990" and "In the 14 years...."
     
  3. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Why don't you reply and ask some searching questions to test that they are genuine? I bet the reply you get is far better than the first email.
     
  4. cyaninternetdog

    cyaninternetdog Forum Hippie

    The goatman story is hilarious, as for the email wtf.
     
  5. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    Dear Mr. Sir? Definately not genuine unless it was written by someone from Essex.
     
  6. inayellowshirt

    inayellowshirt From the other place

    I dress up as a watford fan to get close to people at games, I see someone likes to do the same with goats
     
  7. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Unless the astronaut shouts 'you fools, you blew it up', then they ain't getting no cash from me.
     
  8. LLST

    LLST Squad Player

    I never knew Nigeria had a space program?
     
  9. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    A work colleague sent me it cude/Diamond. If nothing else it shows if you can call it that creativity in spinning a tall tale. Although someone spending fourteen years in a low gravity environment would be a record and might also have rather unpleasant effects on your cardiovascular system. And being an afficianado of Red Star in space, I would know that no Soviet mission carried any Nigerian into space.

    And Nigeria have only recently set upon their own programmes to launch satellites into orbit beginning in 1999 LLST.

    I'm sure no one with any common sense will have been taken in.

    As for the Goatman lucky he did not encounter an alpha male. He might have received more than he expected....... Almost sounds like something from Jackass.
     
  10. inayellowshirt

    inayellowshirt From the other place

    Depends on what he was expecting...

    I fear he wasn't there to observe nature
     

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