This is the funniest line in a scam that I've read

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Not quite a Newb Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 21

'IN CASE OF MY ABSENCE ON EARTH CAUSED BY DEATH'

..........as opposed to what? You were on the moon? Ha Ha!

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:55 pm

I think he's telling you he wants to be launched into space when he kicks instead of to the usual burial, cremation, or having your head frozen for future repairs.

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:46 pm

Is it really that hard to spot a singly typo, come on guys, I expected more of you. What he meant was:

Lad wrote:

'IN CASE OF MY ABSENCE ON EARTH CAUSED MY DEATH'

From there on, it's clear what he wants Wink

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:05 am

Noahflintstone wrote:

as opposed to what? You were on the moon?

This may come as a surprise to many, but Nigeria does have it's very own space agency, called the "National Space Research and Development Agency".

Interestingly, though, every link that I find to it seems to be dead.

http://www.nasrda.org/
http://www.nasrda.net/

Rolling Eyes

Not quite a Newb Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 21

Well to put the funny line in contxt he was quoting what his father wrote in his will, not talking about himself

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 2:53 pm

NickTheCop wrote:

This may come as a surprise to many, but Nigeria does have it's very own space agency, called the "National Space Research and Development Agency".

That would be the ULTIMATE safari if someone ever figured a way to pull it off! hehe Very Happy

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:57 pm

There was the Zambian Space Program back in 1964: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Makuka_Nkoloso

Highlights:

Quote:

This program in the 1960s sought to accomplish the launching of a rocket that would send ten "afronauts", a "spacegirl", ten cats and a missionary to Mars, thus besting the United States and Soviet Union's respective space programs at the height of the Space Race (note that, as of the 2000s, only the United States space program has managed to launch a successful manned mission to an extraterrestrial body, and has not yet accomplished a manned mission to Mars).

To train the astronauts, he set up a makeshift facility seven miles away from Lusaka, where the trainees, dressed in drab overalls with British army helmets, would then take turns to climb into a 44 gallon oil drum which would be rolled down a hill bouncing over rough ground; this, according to Nkoloso, would train the men in the feeling of weightlessness in both space travel and re-entry.

He wrote an editorial for a newspaper describing his endeavors. In it, he had described how he had requested UNESCO for a £7,000,000 grant for his space program, and how he specifically instructed the missionaries to not force Christianity onto the native Martian inhabitants if they didn't want it. He also noted that the rocket, a 10x6 aluminium and copper vessel, would launch from the Independence Stadium on Independence Day , 1964.

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:52 am

Hey, we had a lad last year with a format based on being stranded on Mars with a daily anal probe and having ruptured *his* uterus. He'd obviously been well baited in the past, but he ssent out the format and tried to scam using it Wink

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:21 am

Yastreb: The rest of that article doesn't give the integrity of the project any more credence either.

Quote:

Nkoloso's space program never took off the ground, particularly because of the lack of grants from UNESCO and the fact that the 17-year-old "spacegirl" who was to ride on the mission, Mata Mwambwa, had gotten pregnant and was taken away by her parents.

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 2:11 am

manbiteslion
Is there a bait or copy of the mars format somewhere?

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 2:16 am

Quote:

Hello
I pray that this email reaches you in the best of health. This letter may come to you as a
surprise due to the fact that we have not yet met. The message could be strange but it's real
and you will realise this if you pay some attention to it. I want to notify you about it at least for
the sake of your integrity.

My name is Major Greg Boner Moyo, a direct and only remaining member of the wealthy
Moyo family. I am an astronaut with the South African Air Force and on loan to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

In 2003 I left earth aboard the Mars Rover, Spirit. Seven months later I arrived on Mars.
Prior to departing earth, I deposited the amount of US$ 11,600,000 (Eleven million, six
hundred thousand United States dollars) in safety galvanized boxes in a African
financial institution in Cotonou Benin Republic for security reason which will be disclosed to you upon your
acceptance of my proposal.

Last year, during the course of my research on Mars, I was ambushed by a group of analdwelling
rebel Martians who inflicted great torturous pain upon my body with anal probes.
After a few weeks of enduring the physical pain, they released me. As a direct result of this
cruelty, I am now very ill with a ruptured uterus that has defiled all forms of medical treatment
and which has been deemed to be inoperable by my Martian surgeons. I am writing this mail
to you on a laptop from my hospital bed in the Martian capitol of Zhwrong.

I now have but a few weeks to live and I am far too ill to endure the long and arduous journey
back to my South Africa home. Therefore I have decided to donate the bulk of my fortune to a
church or charitable organisation that will utilize this money in the manner which I shall impart
to you later. In return for your assistance, I shall authorise you to keep 30% of this fund for
your trouble and aggravation plus an additional 10% to cover your expenses.

You should contact my attorney in Cotonou Benin Republic immediately with your address and
telephone number and he will give you his full contact information and guidance so that we
can make arrangements as soon as possible.

Contact Barrister Nelson E Dominic

Barristers & Solicitors,
Telephone +229 934 217 87
Cotonou, West Africa

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 2:17 am

Thanks SSAL!

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 2:11 pm

Nick; from what I've read elsewhere it's more than likely that Edward Nkoloso played a prank on Time magazine with this one - and was believed.

http://acrossdifficultcountry.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-see-zambia-of-future-as-space-age.html

Quote:

The fate of this brilliant Zambian humorist is a mystery. Did he perpetrate other hoaxes? Is he still alive?

Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 3:26 am

^^ Ah, I see. Smile

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