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Did anyone check the couch cushions?
« on: September 15, 2011, 02:46:53 PM »
Really, $2 billion went *poof* ?!?!?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Police-in-London-arrest-apf-1738541059.html

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Police in London said they arrested a 31-year-old UBS trader, Kweku Adoboli, in the alleged fraud.

I'm pretty sure I've gotten a couple of e-mails from him offering to give me a cut of the money he was trying to get out of Nigeria.  Looks like UBS fell for it.

Add this to Greek (Italian, Spanish, Irish, Portuguese, etc) debt crisis, and it might be enough to push the whole rotting edifice over the cliff.   

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Re: Did anyone check the couch cushions?
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2011, 02:55:34 PM »
Major bankers have fallen for Nigerian scams:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/20/419_trail_collapse/
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Re: Did anyone check the couch cushions?
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2011, 02:56:31 PM »
how about the other guy? steal a billion do 2 1/2 years?  sign me up.  i can do that standing on my head
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Re: Did anyone check the couch cushions?
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2011, 03:36:59 PM »
Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on September 15, 2011, 02:56:31 PM
how about the other guy? steal a billion do 2 1/2 years?  sign me up.  i can do that standing on my head
Maybe Bubba will like that . . . always looking for new positions . . .   :O
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Re: Did anyone check the couch cushions?
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2011, 03:53:04 PM »
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Maybe Bubba will like that . . . always looking for new positions . . .

Bubba doesn't attend white collar prison.
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Re: Did anyone check the couch cushions?
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2011, 03:59:51 PM »
Quote from: brimic on September 15, 2011, 03:53:04 PM
Bubba doesn't attend white collar prison.

i wonder what prison was like over there.  money really talks in foreign jails
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