By the way, there is some good info here about the Nigerian scams (link from an earlier thread). I had always thought that the main idea was for them to get your bank account info. Turns out that what they really do is request and then extort money from their victims, first dangling the prospect of a big payoff, then threats of exposure and violence...and a number of scam victims have been murdered. Little Hawk's post, and my letter, was a lark, but the homepage of the site linked to above has some suggestions for more serious ways of fighting this stuff.

Aloha,
Mark