Topic: SCAM - on April 21, 2003 at 12:07:07 PM CEST
Fake bank site part of Nigerian scam
They’re certainly persistent. Another flavor of the well-known Nigerian scam has popped up, this one even more elaborate than the familiar e-mail solicitation. The scam appears to target former recipients who were initially drawn in by an e-mail offer, but abandoned the scheme half-way through. To ease potential victims’ fears, scam artists have set up a fake online bank, and even deposited funds into a bogus account there. One pair of victims has reportedly lost $100,000 to such a fake bank scam. And now, thanks to a private citizen who did a little sleuthing of his own, here’s a chance to see it in action.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 21, 2003 at 12:00:49 PM CEST
High Holy Day for Potheads
The first of these days has already passed: April 15, tax day, when millions of Americans, according to the latest research, fail to pay billions in taxes. The other day is April 20 -- Saturday -- a day when thousands, if not millions, will "mow the grass." That's a polite way of saying that these folks get baked, blitzed, paggered, blazed, obliterated, perved, shmacked ... in other words, they get high, as 4/20 is recognized by many as "national smokers day."
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Topic: - on April 21, 2003 at 11:56:20 AM CEST
Google's easter egg hunt.
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Topic: SPORT - on April 21, 2003 at 11:43:21 AM CEST
Too much beer blamed for marbles loss
Too much beer has been blamed for British teams losing the World Marbles Championships to Germany - for the second year in a row.
The 72nd annual contest was staged at the Greyhound Pub in Tinsley Green, West Sussex, on Good Friday.
The village, near Crawley, is reputed to be the scene of an epic marbles battle in Elizabethan times over the hand of a local maiden.
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Topic: - on April 21, 2003 at 11:25:46 AM CEST
German spies offered help to Saddam in run-up to war
Germany's intelligence services attempted to build closer links to Saddam's secret service during the build-up to war last year, documents from the bombed Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad obtained by The Telegraph reveal.
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