Widow Sues Her Kids To Gain Husbands Millions
Actress Taryn Dielle, 42, decided to sue her own children (aged one and three) after her husband, Mark Butler, died of cancer last year. Her husband left a fortune of over £2 million of which she is entitled only £125,000 due to the lack of last will.
She is taking this action to gain access to the money that her husband left behind and raise her kids properly. According to the law she is only entitled to £50,000 per year which is the interest from the money that her husband left behind.
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Seasteading: Own Your Own Country
Did you ever had this dream as a child, to be a king, and emperor or a president of an entire country? Well now is your chance.
A group of ultra rich millionaires have come up with a way to rule your own country, even if its the smallest one on earth. Peter Thiel (Paypal), Wayne Gramlich (Sun Microsystems) executive and Patri Milton Friedman (Google) are behind this ambitious scheme of creating mini and independent nations floating on international waters.
These “nations” will be based on old oil rig platforms and would be big enough to fit a family.
To achieve this they formed the Seasteading Institute, and examine the impact of such communities.
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Beijing Airport: The Biggest In The World
China officially opened the gates to the biggest airport in the world, The cost reached $3.8 billion and it is now ready to welcome the millions of tourists that will visit the Olympic games. Last year alone Beijing Airport had 53.5 million visitors where as the predictions were for only 35 millions.
With this new achievement China not only takes a first but also create a monument of modern aesthetics designed by the British architect Norman Foster.
Rapidshare closing down?
Bad news for Rapidshare as the Dusseldorf court in Germany ordered the immediate block of all illegal (copyrighted) files within the site.
I do not know how fast this new ban will be but at this moment Rapidshare is one of the most popular download hosts. As we know it is very difficult to control and check millions of submitted files so the future of Rapidshare is not looking good. After all Rapidshare’s reputation grew from the existence of illegal files in it.
Lets see what will happens!
Is it easy to set up an European Bank account from Nigeria?
A day ago we posted in this site an article about a Nigerian scammer that was scammed by a guy called 419 Eater. Being a bit curious I wanted to find out a bit about 419 Eater and I found out from his website that he has managed to gather a lot of stories from people with a great sense of humor that managed quite creatively to scam Nigerian scammers.
I think the dictionary definition for people like 419 Eater is: scam-baiter The person who tries to humiliate and waste the time of Nigerian scammers!
Anyway, I read in particular about this Nigerian 419 scammer who was baited by user Shiver Metimbers into getting a tattoo!
To cut the story short, the Nigerian, Mr Nicholas Okorie (doubt if its his real name) send the usual scam email where somebody want to transfer millions of dollars into your account. Shiver Metimbers replayed to him pretending to be Father Bruce Corbin (and also from Father Jack Hackett) the Holy Church of The Tattooed Saint!
Shiver Metimbers managed to persuade Mr. Okorie to get a real tattoo with the “churches” logo in order to get funding from the “church”
When Mr. Okorie proved that he got the tattoo, a lot of emails went back and forth between the scammer and the scam-baiter about where and how to send the “church” money to Nigeria.
One of the accounts that Mr. Okorie produced was an account in a major Greek Bank (Piraeus Bank). This can be seen at the email quote below:
Dear father Jack Hackett,
I was not aware of the problems going on with the account number,as it belongs to an organisation in the BUREAU DE CHANGE buisness.Here in nigeria,most money transfers are done through this means as the WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER seems ineffective considering the presence of the E.F.C.C.
I am so sorry about this.please do use this new acc.no.
PIRAEUS BANK
PAPASTRATOU BRANCH 2107
18545 PIREAS ATTICA GREECE
SWIFT CODE:PIRB GRAI 107
FAVOR:INTERCONTRACTS LTD
ACC/NO:GR8901721070 0051 0702 xxxx xxx
I do not know about Mr. Okorie’s other bank accounts (in Honk Kong), mentioned in the emails, and how he managed to open them.
The question that arises is how did Mr. Okorie, who resided in Nigeria (as seen from the email evidence), manage to open an account in a European Union Bank? The strict(?) E.U. regulations require the account holder to be residing at the country where the account is to open, including a residency/work visa.
Was Mr. Okorie acting alone or he managed to open accounts here and there with a help of a bigger scam/mafia network?
It seems from 419 Eater’s website that there have been many cases of scammers. Has the police (Interpol perhaps?) seen all this and tried to arrest any scammer? It will not be impossible to apprehend them as most scammers are tricked to send their pictures (found on 419 Eater’s website)
I think the “Nigerian” or 419 scam is a much more serious issue than what we know!
Intel no longer support the MIT’s $100 laptop for kids
Intel Corp. decided to abandon the One Laptop Per Child Program that was founded by Nicholas Negroponte in 2005. The former director at the MIT aimed to deliver millions of laptops to children in developing countries. The price tag for these machines was set at $100 but currently the cost is at $188. The machines will run the open source linux and at the moment carry an AMD processor chip (rival to Intel).
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