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Dave W.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 01/31/2004 : 22:45:57 [Permalink]
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| This news makes me very happy... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 12:39:39 [Permalink]
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Excellent! Hope the thievin' bastards get locked away for a long, long time.
And the 'scam scam' guy. (insert big laugh) All the kitty pics, and the wild goose chase.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 13:28:05 [Permalink]
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Don't you just love it when anplan comes together?
Now, I'm wishing they'd send me anopther offer. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 20:48:54 [Permalink]
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I've got a whole bunch of 419 emails saved up, filthy, for a project I was thinking about. Want me to forward a few to you?  |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2004 : 21:27:39 [Permalink]
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Naw, it wouldn't be the same, somehow.
But do keep us posted on how your project goes. I hope it is sufficently evil as to give someone peptic ulcers and bleeding piles.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Jarrid
Skeptic Friend
101 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2004 : 12:28:17 [Permalink]
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| Ok, that took me a long time to read, but may I say it was HILARIOUS! Haha that guy is a genius! Wish I would've thought of something like that.... |
I don't have to go swimming through an outhouse to know I wouldn't like it." |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2004 : 10:37:43 [Permalink]
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From Wired:...including a Swiss professor who lost $482,000 after being promised 25 percent of a $36 million sum...
So, obviously, being a professor doesn't make you immune to stupidity. 
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2004 : 20:24:39 [Permalink]
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/02/05/nigeria.419.trial.ap/index.html
This was just posted at CNN. What gets me is the bank employee siphoned off 242 million bucks just for "handling fees for a lucritive land deal".
Christ, what the heck does that idiot bank employee define as lucritive? |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2004 : 22:48:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Read about it at Wired.
See also Urgent & Confidential, a wonderful way to deal with this stuff, if you've got the time and motivation.
It's back again.
I got a mail yesterday asking for help in some transactions in Sierra Leone.
It would seem like they didn't manage to cut the head of this scam.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2004 : 06:55:08 [Permalink]
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| Well, Mab, the Wired article talks about just 52 people getting busted in Amsterdam. There are probably thousands of people trying to work this scam, worldwide. So, while the Amsterdam bust was nice, it probably wasn't even a two-digit percentage of the number of people involved in sending those emails. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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