STRIKE FORCE DIXIES BUST SPAM SCAMMER

You know, we get alot of email here at the JYB, but there are few I treasure more than those long, heart-rending missives from Nigeria. We receive them several times a month. I'm reduced to tears when I read of the plight of some multi-millionaire who is under threat from the government, and whose money is being held in inaccessible accounts. How many times have I wanted to respond to their calls, give them my bank account number, confident that they'll actually pay me the small fortune they promise if I just let them transfer the whole pot to me and hold it for a while?

Ok, none. Never fooled me for a nanosecond. And actually, the "Nigerians" have turned out to be a 39-year-old Australian guy. And, I know you'll be shocked to hear this, it was all a scam, an elaborate plot to bilk people. The Australian Nigerian, or is that Nigerian Australian--whatever--just got busted by some Aussie police outfit called the Strike Force Dixies, which sounds like the Bellicose Women Brigade's answer to the Dixie Chicks.