Everybody knows that millions of bogus emails are sent from Nigeria every day. Most of these claim to have come from the son of a wealthy and formerly powerful West-African politician. These messages all contain instructions about how to obtain fabulous wealth, quickly and illicitly. They say "if you allow us access to your bank account, in return we will deposit millions of pounds into it, which you can keep." Any gullible victims soon lose any savings which they had accumulated. Some frustrated dupes even travel to Lagos in an attempt to recover their missing cash. On arrival in Nigeria they are often beaten and sometimes killed.

A web site has been set up - www.419eater.com - to redress the balance. The con-men are finding out that dirty tricks can fool them too. A story of one such conned con-artist is told here by the BBC.

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