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Old 06-12-2012, 03:24 PM
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Local pilot kidnapped, released in African Internet plot



Jet Blue pilot kidnapped, released in Benin - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
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Old 06-12-2012, 03:54 PM
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What's scary about this? Some guy who happened to be a pilot flew to Africa for a business deal he arranged over the internet? Sounds like an imbecile to me. Not like he was grabbed off the employee bus at the airport or from his hotel room on an RON.
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Old 06-12-2012, 04:49 PM
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You know those Nigerian scam emails? Guess what, some people actually travel to Nigeria with 50k or more in cash expecting the deal of a lifetime.

I have a friend that worked with the Embassy in Lagos, about weekly he had to rescue a naked, broke American from some hotel there and get them some clothes and a ticket home.
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Old 06-13-2012, 08:20 AM
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Sounds like a candidate for the idiot files.
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