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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:04 pm

OK, I'm impressed.

If your Lads don't think they've lost their ventures now, what'll it take to convince them?

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:08 pm

Fantastic stuff! Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:32 pm

Yeah I hope he enjoys downloading that 5MB file...hehe.

BTW, just in case anybody is wondering...The Sunday Times is a South African Newspaper.

BW

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:39 pm

As an added note, I just sent out the article to a few hundred lads and will continue to do so for a couple of days.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:44 pm

I sent the article to the Daily Sun as a follow up to the heads up they received yesterday.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:45 pm

AND THEY'RE OFF!

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I think later on we'll need a story of a huge shark being caught off the coast (just have to find out the right kind for those waters) who of course has swallowed the trunk or maybe the GPS device.....

Wouldn't it be funny if the trunk opened somehow, the GPS fell out, gets swallowed, and the trunk got snagged somewhere close to its original location? All along, you've been following the migratory patterns of a fish (or you could make it a whale, so mammal)....

Enquiring minds want to know!

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:58 pm

There have been reports of lads using sniffer dogs to help find the box

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:00 pm

Come on... I've seen better Photoshop jobs from mugus. The typeface is wrong, the lines have no paper grain breakup, the text at the top is from a screen, not a newspaper. If a job's worth doing...

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:06 pm

I guess that you have never seen a copy of the Sunday Times then. If you had, you would not be saying that.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:32 pm

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:36 pm

Just a thought, maybe add some smudges and a little rotation.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:37 pm

What if you ASEM'd that article to thousands of lads??? Maybe cause a commotion across West Africa?? Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:30 pm

YeaWhatever wrote:

I guess that you have never seen a copy of the Sunday Times then. If you had, you would not be saying that.

Also known as the Sunday Slimes.

[edit]: it's the online version: http://www.sundaytimes.co.za

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:42 pm

Quote:

Obviously, the lad, and perhaps many others, will receive the big one.

As I suggested earlier on this thread I still think that this ariticle sent from a Lad to another Lad gives it some Lad credibility.
If it gets "accidentally" BCC:ed to an entire list of Lads as part of the original mail, you have "Chaos on the Coast" Mass Safari! Laughing

That's why I wanted 419 Eater to invest in the 419 Eater Helicopter to film the Nigerian coastline. Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:08 am

Latest Google Earth picture

Now wouldn't it be such a shame if a cyclone/ hurricane came through the Gulf of Guinea?

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:43 am

I was pm'd a list of online newspapers available in Nigeria. (thanks Bruin Wink

)

I seem to have accidentaly sent them all a copy of the news article and asked them if it was true.

Oops.

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:50 am

I would assume Google News indexes articles appearing in the Nigerian press. In 24-48 hours, a search for key words using Google News may be interesting.

Bruin

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:28 am

I can't believe any instructed lad would believe in that newspaper story.

I believe, however, that there are a few instructed lad.

Will they warn othere is most unsure.

Do you believe in recent connection between Nigeria 419 and Romanian fraudsters (hacking) ?

I don't see any comment on historic evolution of scam on the site. AT waht place may it be seen ? Where is the analysis of the evolving, it may not only be a game site is not it ?

Personally I had big laugh on the differnent safari sites, but I tend to believe that the less dangerous scammers get caught in those stories.

They really look too gentle and kind to me (too easy).

Good laughing nowadays

Chris

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:03 am

Were you aware that the planned route for the briefcase goes right through the prime offshore oil areas in Angola ?

It would be a shame if the money got snagged on the side of a drill ship for a day or two before making it's way back north again Wink

The Global Santa Fe Jack Ryan is out there at the moment
Latitude (S 006 150 30), Longitude (E 011 08 248) for example.

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:31 am

Wait a week...let the Lads search the coastline then drop the big news story...

None other that Professor Charles Soludo sent out a search team and Chucks team found the money. Chuck has decided to keep the money for himself and buy a villa in Spain with his new found wealth.

I think the Lads would really appreciate Chucky getting richer. Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:57 pm

Okoma seems to be doing his homework. With any luck, I should have a list of boats to chose from any day now. I wonder how much running around he has to do for this investigative work. You can't exactly call ship captains on the phone. I would think that you would have to hang around the port in person for this sort of thing.

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:33 pm

Emma Stralian wrote:

Come on... I've seen better Photoshop jobs from mugus. The typeface is wrong, the lines have no paper grain breakup, the text at the top is from a screen, not a newspaper. If a job's worth doing...

Please send me some of the stellar newspaper mock-ups mugus have done and I will carefully study their work Rolling Eyes

The front page was taken from an electronic press service I am subscribed to. Unfortunately it does have several downfalls...one of which is some pixelated photos ads etc. As far as typeface goes, sorry dude but the closest I have is Times New Roman. I mentioned this to YW and said I would fix it or use another paper that had a better front page but he said it was fine.

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http://news.google.com/news?q=Umfolozi

Your mugu obviously couldn't keep his mouth shut. Laughing

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:46 pm

No real news to report from our lad. He should still be researching boats for hire. Meanwhile, the money continues to float North, and hundreds of newspaper articles are being emailed to lads everywhere.

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