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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	If you get an email asking you to help the friend of an African dictator smuggle money out of the country don't fall for it. Apparently a new "voice-enabled version" has started as well. A person in Sweden answered an online form about travelling habits, and a few weeks later recieves a call from a man in Atlanta. Apparently he's "won a 14-day cruise in the Bahamas", but he has to cover 15% of the cost himself (app. 900us$), so the gentleman from Atlanta needs his bank account... (The guy then quickly ended the call, but some might not) --------------------------------- Relevant threads: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000002/HTML/20021002-1-004591.html]WTF is this?[/url] --------------------------------- Relevant links: [url=http://www.ncis.gov.uk/waocu.asp]West African Organised Crime Section[/url] - things are so bad the British National Criminal Intelligence Unit has had to set up a division to deal specifically with this problem (it also provides a lot of information). [url=http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm]Nigerian Scam[/url] [url=http://www.scambusters.org/NigerianFee.html]Nigerian Fee[/url] _________________________ [internallink=4626]Emperor[/internallink] [small][i](Added by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Wed 22-Jan-2003)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Tyberius+Prime]Tyberius Prime [/url] on Mon 03-Feb-2003)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Nimraw]Nimraw [/url] on Tue 25-Nov-2003)[/i][/small] Loading...
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