I work for an Agency of the Federal Government (your tax dollars at work here, as I surf Mudcat!), so when I occasionally receive little email missives here on my work computer from an Official of the Nigerian Government offering me untold riches, I pass them on to the NIH Police Detective who has a sort of hobby collecting them. He passes them on to the Secret Service, who collects them in a file that they ignore or something...

The detective and I had a chat about them; he told me of one case where an elderly woman had already given these louses $85,000 from her retirement money, and didn't want help from the police - she said that her check for $1.2 million would come any day now...Sad.