[ ] Best email for a while...

I'm not taking up the offer I received by email today - but can probably swap one of you guys in if you are interested - let me know. I was nearly taken in by it; it is, after all, very believable that a black hole would swallow some but not all of the planet, but then I thought ... "Hang on.. I don't even have any pets! The whole thing is probably made up!"

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Dear Friend,
How are you? I hope all is well with your family, friends and pets. I hope this urgent mail meets you in a perfect condition. We have no time to waste regarding the information I am about to tell you, it is an urgent and serious matter.
My name is Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, senior data analyst here at the CERN institute based here in Geneva CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. You may have seen on the news that, in recent days, our Large Hadron Collider machine has been colliding high-speed beams of energy in order to explore new physics and understand how the universe began. CERN have been adamant that this is safe, however I KNOW THE TRUTH.
The truth is that this experiment that CERN are conducting is extremely dangerous, and could cause global disaster. This experiment has a 95% of causing a black hole, thus swallowing a large area of the planet. The scientists do not want you to know this as they know it will cause panic. However, I can help you.
I am arranging for a number of selected people to be evacuated to a safe location on an island in the South Pacific via aeroplane. You have been selected from random to take part in this evacuation, thus continuing the survival of the human race.
Please, if you are interested, email me back immediately with the following information:


Full name:
Age:
Contact number:
Country:
Email address:


Please send all emails to our official email box below,

euronuclear.research@rescueteam.com OR euronuclear.research@hotmail.com



Regards, and God bless.
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth"

That is a character from the TV show "Futurama."

Good news, everyone!

So, they're going to put the lucky ones in a cryogenic freezer for a 1000 years?

Why are they asking for your email address? Don't they already have it, seeing as they're using it to contact you and all?

:-)

That's some great stuff. All I ever get are ads for various pharmaceuticals. Although recently I've been getting a phish that looks very convincingly like an "Amazon picks for you" email, except that all the links go to bogus places. Scary.