Posted by spodosaurus on 09/04/05 05:03

Zombie Wolf wrote:
> The FBI does not have a "Field Office" in ANY foreign country.

There are a couple of 's' words you should look up. Not that they're
both entirely applicable, but I believe if you don't know one you won't
know the other. These words are 'satire' and 'sarcasm'.

Cheers,

Ari

> They are
> forbidden to operate outside the United States by LAW. This law was passed
> after tricky dick (Richard Nixon) abused the FBI's powers in that very
> fashion....
>
> And before you start talking about Aruba, although the FBI may HELP with the
> investigation there, they have no official standing in it - they have no
> police powers in any foreign land, period.
>
> "FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote in message
> news:1125669037.366878.41090@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
>>TMDWeebus wrote:
>>
>>>There I was just minding business and got this message that from someone
>>>claming to be from the FBI. I don't know if I am the only one who this
>>>has
>>>happend too.
>>
>>I got a similar message from the FBI's field office in Lagos, Nigeria -
>>they wanted me to come in for questioning about this lottery scam that
>>I fell for. Now I didn't think I fell for any scam - I don't even play
>>lotteries. But the E-mail must have been genuine because it mentioned
>>that actual fact in it - "you may not remember participating in any
>>lottery organized by his excellency, the state comptroller for
>>Nigeria". Now, I don't know how I'm going to get to Nigeria, but the
>>FBI said that they'd send me a free ticket once they confirmed my
>>identity, SS#, DoB, address, ATM PIN# (they MUST be FBI - how else
>>would they know I used an ATM?).
>>
>>Now I was still skeptical until I went on the alt.politics.spoofedbyFBI
>>and alt.travel.cometoNigeria&loseyourshirt NGs. I figured if this was
>>a scam, those boards would be lit with stories just like it - but
>>everybody just wanted to talk about using this thing called WinMX.
>>
>>what the hell is winmx, and why won't my winmx start my downloads?
>>
>>NP - Weird Out by Dandelion (off Dyslexicon)
>>
>
>
>


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