If you have e-mail, chances are that you have received some sort of e-mail from Nigerian scam artists (or several other countries, actually) trying to tempt you with large amounts of money in exchange for your help laundering it. Of course, to facilitate the receipt of your sizable share of the money, they keep extracting more and more money out of you until finally it’s obviously a hoax, but somehow a surprising number of people have been taken by this scheme. I’ve kept some of these in my “miscellaneous” inbox just for fun, but one person has taken it a step further. Visit Brad Christensen’s exhibit of hilarious correspondences with various scam artists; I only wish I had the wit and patience to do something similar…
