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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:21 pm

Whats up guys? I'm new to the site, I really get a kick out the videos and emails that I've seen and read so far. I've been "scambaiting" without knowing that what I was doing had a term to it, till I read about it on Wikipedia.
The main reason why I'm posting something up is because I wanted to warn people about a fake airline named Metis TransPacific Charter Airlines or just Metis TransPacific
They have a website that looks real with fake pictures of airliners and other stuff that just does not add up. When someone books a flight they do no accept credit card payments, they want people to wire them the total amount due to a bank account in Macau....uh yeah!

Here is the fake airline's website, an article on Wikipedia, a forum discussion on airliners.net about it complete with the source where Metis Airlines stole their logo from, and a blogger that proves that the picture of a 747 taking off has been photoshoped. At the bottom of Wikipedia you'll see a YouTube video reporting on the fake airline too.

http://www.metismacau.com --fake airline website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metis_TransPacific_Airlines --Wikipedia article

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/3725014/ --Discussion in a an aviation forum

http://www.jaronbrass.com/blog/ --a blog about it. When you go to the blog, roll your cursor over the image of the plane taking off to see the actual pic.

If this scam has been posted before, please accept my apologies.
If I may suggest, can someone shut the site down.

Chuck Norris Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 1369

FYI:

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GR

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Holargos
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GR

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