Or filled with get rich quick scams. That reminds me of a Charles Stross novel, I think Accelerando.

That should be a quest in some space exploration game. You research hiperspace radio, then you decode alien languages, then you get mysterious quest involving intergalactic wars, lost artifacts and last scions of ruling families. You duly follow the leads to learn more about these subjects, find that nothing seems to check up, only to find out at the end that it was just Nigerian scam.

Maybe they can tell me how to make my jagon bigger.