I teach an Internet research class at the college where I work. I used one of those Nigerian scams to instruct my class as to what a scam is. According to this scam I won the English Publishing Clearing House Lottery. I replied to the scam and keep stringing them along for about 4 weeks. They finally asked for money on the third contact. I kept them on the hook for another week and then told them they were a part of my class. I sent an email to Scotland Yard telling them about it and where they wanted me to wire the money. It was very entertaining. I told the scammers how much I needed the money and included gramatical errors just to make them think I'm not very bright. It was great fun. Scotland Yard said that even though I was to wire the money to England the scammers were probably elsewhere.

Tom