Foreign Phantom Menace fans ripped off by fake tour company

Dozens of European science fiction fans who have been shelling out their hard earned cash for Phantom Menace flight and cinema seats via a company called Tenbat-Holmberg Tours & Vacations have been taken to the proverbial Dagobah cleaners.

It seems the company has no existence in any company records in any EC country.

The company has now vanished from the internet, as has, presumably, fans' hopes for getting tickets to the opening night of the new Star Wars movie in the U.S.

A scam run by crooks from the former Eastern Block is suspected, as one of the victims trying to confirm the airline he was flying on, received a somewhat earthy email from Tenbat-Holmberg Tours, suggesting that NATO would be far better positioned outside of Yugolsavia's borders.

The fact that Yugosalvia no longer exists, this being rather the cause of this sorry mess, seems to have escaped the attention of our crafty criminal pranksters.

Ho hum. Good one Milosevic.

Tell you what, how about the Apache hovering outside your window takes the money directly out of your mass-murdering war criminal ass?

Our advice to fans getting caught up in the excitement of the new movie's release? If an offer seems to good to be true, it probably is!

Make sure you get either an ATOL receipt or an airline ticket straight away when you pay your money.

And our advice to NATO? Give war a chance.

Anyway, the 'Nest suspects the only way anyone is getting tickets for the first showing of Phantom Menace by this stage is if you begin a carnal relationship with a very close and valued member of George Lucas's family.

Coming soon: Close and valued members of George Lucas's family - a dating guide to their ideal partner choices.

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