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Greetings Fellow Sophont.

I am Umberto Umbutu, the soul surviving son of the late Joseph Umbutu, who is murdured from a recently failed coup attempt last year.

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or, written before. Introducing myself, I am Master Umberto Umbutu, 19 years of age the only of the son late Mr and Mrs Joseph Umbutu, my father was a Lanthanum and relinx merchant based in Gunn and Mithra (Sword Worlds), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips last year during an attempted coup.

Before the death of my father on in a private hospital here in Mithra, he secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of MCr12.5, deposited in security company here in Mithra that he used my name as his only son for the next of kin in depositing the fund. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as expansion of his existing relinx business and real estate management here on how best to transfer this money to outsystem please.

I am humbly seeking your assistance in the following ways :

1) To assist me in providing an account of yours where this fund can quietly be transferred into.
2) To making transfer this fund into your account.
3) To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am still in the university.
4) To making arrangement for me to come over to your Empirium to further my education and to help me secure a residential permit there.

Moreover, I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account outsystem, while 5% will be set aside to offset any expenses we may incur.

Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within the shortest possible time if you signify interest to assist me.

Please contact me immediately you receive this message through this email address if you are interested.

Bless you.

Yours sincerely,

Umberto Umbutu
Mithramir, Mithra


Of course, this is a blatant modification of an actual, typical Nigerian Scam email that I've received recently. Only the names and currency were changed. Even then, IYTU this message might actually be legit!

Gorram, I hope the real author of this letter does not come after me for using his "original" material!
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Nicely converted :D It's been ages since I got one, ah the joys of smart blocking. In a way I almost miss reading them.

This will definitely go in the files for use, thanks. As you note it could even be legit in some TU, it'll almost have to be in mine if the usual suspects are playing PCs since they would never believe it. The gears are turning already on that option.

Originally posted by Heretic Keklas Rekobah:



Gorram, I hope the real author of this letter does not come after me for using his "original" material!
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Originally posted by Fritz88:
These are ALL great, Heretic! But, this one has the most potential, IMHO:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />5) As #4, and matching the DNA of one of the characters.
YIKES!!! :eek: </font>[/QUOTE]To add to the excitement, the "found" part isn't "missing" from the original character.

"Bob, we seem to have found your hand -- but I see you already have two."
 
Well, whartung, that's why that one has so much potential! I assumed a character would notice missing something like that before it was uncovered in a used air raft.
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Originally posted by jrients:
Can anybody direct me to a chart or offer a rule of thumb for wages paid to non-starship personnel? Say my guy's best skill is Elec-2 or Admin-3 and he wants to make an honest living instead of working for dubious patrons. How much should he make a week?
Figure out how much a similar job would pay in America. Divide the dollar amount by 3 to get the amount in credits (rounding off is optional).


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