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I just got this email which looks totally legit, but something is bothering me...
Good Day Dear Sander,
Greetings to you and your entire family, My name is (Mr. Bello William) A South Africa citizen that works in FINANCE SECURITY COMPANY GROUP in Benin Cotonou West Africa and I am Married with 3 children 2 boys and 1 girl, as a Security Officer. I need your assistance and support to transfer the sum of ($9.500,000.00)-(Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) out of the Finance Company where I work, to your bank account in your Country. You will be rewarded with 40% of the total sum for your partnership and support. Can you handle this? I was thinking of another Nigerian prince trap, but then I noticed this guy is from Benin.
That sound totally good, right?
I'm not completely sure though...
Can anyone spot anything suspicious or should I go for it and never work again? 
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Has to be legit. The English is good. Congratulations on your coming riches!
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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David O'Neil wrote: The English is good.
Well, apart from:
- Pointless parentheses around his name, and the amount of money he's trying to embezzle.
- Random capitalization in the middle of a sentence.
- "That works in", rather than "who works for".
- Very poor sentence construction - what's the "and I am Married ..." bit doing in there?
- Inconsistent number formatting - is he using "." or "," as the decimal separator?
But other than that, it's fine. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Can you lend me a million until pay day?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quote: should I go for it
No! Hold out until he offers at least $100 million. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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9.500,000.00 = nine thousand five hundred dollars (over here the , is the decimal divider) so not really worth the risk is it ...
And in the us that would be nine and half dollars so definitely not worth the risk there...
Other than that, seem totally legit though.
Tom
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Good find!
I'll definitely ask him about that
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Set up an empty bank account and go for it, with the investment of a little time and ingenuity you may waste a scammers efforts for months.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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That is hilarious!
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"40 % of the total" it sound too good to be true 
The scammers are everywhere...
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Forward it to 419eater and get on with your day. 
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It's just an indication of how hard times are for rich bankers, former princes, and their like to get money into safe havens.
Up to 40%. I never got that much from those cheap-skate Nigerians. Times must be hard, indeed.
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I'm curious what is the scheme of this type of scam? I'm like: OK, this is my IBAN account number, send me the money and I'll TOTALLY give you back 60% in cash  .
Probably, I miss some detail as usual...
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Wow, such businessman, much trade, so professional, very work 
[Insert doge meme]
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Apparently he also goes by "Stanley Bolds" and "Tony Russo".
/ravi
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It's Brooklyn. Northerners have no manners. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Let's hope his immediate future involves being traded for a pack of cigarettes.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I just failed one of those "I'm not a robot" captcha's 
I checked the "I'm not a robot" box, clicked the next button and was presented with an error that I had to complete the captcha.
I'll be doing some self reflection later tonight (wait, can I do that if I'm a robot?)... 
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Sander Rossel wrote: reflection
That depends. Is your firmware written in .NET?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Or Java?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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System.MethodNotFoundException - MethodNotFound: 'Sander.Brain.Reflection.WhoAmI()'
at Sander.Brain.Reflection.StartProcedure(Request)
at Sander.Brain.Basics.Reflect(SelfData)
at Sander.Brain.Basics.Conscience(SelfData)
at Sander.Brain.Basics.Process(Image)
at Sander.Eyes.Translate(Image)
at Sander.Eyes.See(Image);
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May you dream of electric sheep.
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what I always do, copy the XP calculator over. It is better than anything after.
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