I did this some years back, with a number of the typical scams; I even got one fellow to set up a meeting in Addis Abbaba, or was it Bahrain (didn't go, of course). Now, one of those who had written sent a very impressive looking screen, complete with a picture of himself (he stated) and an exterior shot of the Bank of Uganda. If you "Reply" to such E-Mails, but don't "Send", instead click on "Save as Draft", you can then edit this draft and change the original wording (you do get a blue line down the side of the screen, but so what). To cut a long story short, I used this guy's picture in a reply to another scammer, this time purporting to be the widow of an assassinated African politician (and, she claimed, a devout Christian). In keeping with the kind of grammar & spelling encountered in these scams, I wrote to this purported widow in a style reminiscent of Joel Chandler Harris; I'll not quote it here just in case anyone takes offence, but I think I can claim to be one of the few who have ever got anything out of these scammers, namely, some amusement and a couple of good stories to make friends laugh.
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