An estranged super - plenteous   prince asking you for some money is part and parcel of the net experience . The usual spiel is   a reasonably dry business proposition where a belittled advance - fee could return millions of dollars within a few months . But at a time where everybody can make out a fishy electronic mail cozenage , one conman has upped his plot .

The email made its way into the inbox of the websiteAnorak , which   could n’t resist share the plight of hapless old Abacha Tunde . accord to the message , below , he was Nigeria ’s first spaceman who was unwittingly left on board a hugger-mugger Soviet blank post when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1990 ( actually   1991 ) .

However , he was still getting yield for his years of ongoing unfrequented servicing , amount to over $ 15 million . A cool 20 percent of that money could now be yours … if you pay $ 3 million for a counter spaceflight to pick him up . Of naturally , he needs   someone else to pay the upfront costs , as the   law foreclose civil servant to open and operate alien report .

alas , there has never been a Nigerian person in space nor would it be possible to abide in space since the ' 90s without many cargo runs in between . On top of that , the email says he ’s only been there for 14 year yet he was left stranded in 1990 , suggesting that it might be former . But , then again , it ’s probably   good not to fact - break up the email too much .

There ’s no telling if the email is a genuine endeavour at a scam or just a parody . Or even some viral marketing for Matt Damon ’s unexampled film where he inescapably gets   stranded in infinite again .

irrespective , we bid you well , Major Tunde   –   wherever you may be .

delay out a snippet from the email below and see the full version onAnorak .

“ Dear Mr. Sir ,

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE - STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Dr. Bakare Tunde , the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut , Air Force Major Abacha Tunde . He was the first African in space when he made a orphic trajectory to the Salyut 6 space post in 1979 . He was on a belated Soviet spaceflight , Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military place station Salyut 8 T in 1989 . He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved . His other Soviet crew members returned to world on the Soyuz T-16Z , but his place was take in up by return cargo . There have been occasional Progrez provision flights to keep him go since that time . He is in skilful humor , but wants to total home .