  It started a little over two years ago. I'd somehow ended up on the mailing list of some Nigerian Scammers.. I'd received at least 50 emails promising me millions of dollars if I'd help the son/daughter/wife of a murdered African leader. All I needed to do was give them my bank account details... Yeah, Right. For the most part, I'd forward a copy to the United States Secret Service, then delete them.
But, one day I decided to research the matter a bit more. To my surprise and delight, there were people out there who were actually writing back to these conmen and reversing the scam! First I found a site run by an Australian gentleman named Lee Kennedy.. His site ( urlLink Sweet Chilli Sauce )had me laughing my ass off!! Lee was inspired when dealing with these crooks. He was taking them on a ride then publishing the correspondence on the web. I decided I would forward the latest request in my inbox to him. Lee responded promptly. Yet, his response was not what I expected..
Instead of taking on the conman himself, Lee suggested I should undertake to reverse the scam myself. And I did. What resulted was just over 4 months of correspondence between the scammer, who said he was "Jean Guei" son of the deposed (and now dead) ruler of the Ivory Coast, urlLink Robert Guei . My main character was Dr. Forskin Smegma, Director of the Department of Ethnoscatology, Alimentary University, Jejunum, Alaska. Jean desperately needed to move $25 million dollars out of a storage company and the Good Doctor was just the man who could do it. However, the Doctor's wife, Ginger Smegma ( urlLink Dr. & Ginger ) fell in love with Jean and decided to leave Dr. Smegma to go live with Jean. Unfortunately, the Dr. learned of her plans and sent a hitman, the most feared Innuit Warrior, urlLink Nanook Noriega after her. Jean was devastated when he found out Ginger was murdered at the DeGaulle International Airport. He was even more devastated after he'd traveled nearly 50 miles from Abijan to Agboville to get the money the Dr. said he wired.. not once... not twice, but THREE times and the $7500 wasn't there.
In the end, I sent him this link urlLink www.dictionary.com , told him to look up the word smegma, then ask himself "Do I want to be smegma the rest of my life, or a decent human being who doesn't try to steal other peoples money? " Jean placed voodoo curses on me. Since then, I've scambaited literally hundreds more. Ahhhh... You always remember the first one, though. 
