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I have some sympathy for African internet fraudsters. When people who have very little, living in a fucked-over country like Nigeria, manage to use their wits to reach out across the ocean and pull in a bit of Western wealth, I can't help but feel a twinge of admiration. Yes, it's wrong and all and the victims tend to be vulnerable people, but compared to the real crimes that go on every day - for example, the murderous destruction that Shell have been getting away with in Nigeria - blagging some cash by email seems fairly far down the scale to me.
I only wish they'd sort out their prose a bit. I had a really good one back in Gulf War II, purporting to be sent by a US Marine from his laptop while sat in a recently captured palace with huge bales of dollars in the cellar and no way to get them out. It had real urgency and excitement in it - I actually wrote back to say that although I would not be contributing any actual money, I did want to express my appreciation of their writing abilities. But since then, nothing's come through that's offered any real literary merit or advancement of the medium.