Africa is a very wealthy continent. This is evident by the numbers of offers from residents of said continent to place multi-million dollar sums of money in my bank account. Being a spirit of the ancient woodland, I have no need for money and am not inclined to accept their offers.

Many humans, on the other hand, are not so fortunate and accept these generous offers. In an interesting anomoly they end up an average of US$60,000 out of pocket. I am sure this is just an unfortunate accident because the people who email The Green Man with these generous offers seem so nice.

Sadly the internet casts a wide net (excuse pun) and some participants in this diverse realm are, believe it or not, quite cynical. They think these people are scammers and have adopted the somewhat amusing and addictive practice of scam baiting. This involves replying under a false name and publishing the results of the correspondance.

If it wasn't bad enough that these poor people are having trouble finding someone to give their US$22.5 million to, now they are being humiliated to boot.

Visit http://419eater.com/ and be appalled at how badly the sons/wives of some Nigerian ministers are being treated.