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'Stranded Astronaut' Called Worst E-Mail Scam
N.Y. Officials Choose Most Outrageous Con

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...
...E-mail about the stranded man claims that he has been in orbit since 1990....

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I have a pertinent question or two...

Are they saying he's hiding out on the ISS, which wasn't started until 1998 or so? Or are they referring to MIR, which deorbited and burned up on reentry March 23, 2001? :-k

If the latter, that pretty much seems to settle things, don't it? :-s

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Charlie in Dayton, A.AsC.

He stowed away in one of the cargo ships. And he should suffer the fate of stowaways, toss him overboard! Let him float home.

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At night the stars put on a show for free (Carole King)

If he's on the Hubble, where do I send the money.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

If he's on the Hubble, maybe he can do the upgrades? We'll just send him the parts.

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