Me and Colonel Gaddafi, we’re like that… and, by the way, would you like a chunk of his missing millions? Yep, the 419 scammers have been to call this morning with another amusing missive.

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Looks like the 419 scam (or advance fee fraud) email has morphed into yet another form, after this gem of imaginative creativity dropped into the inbox this morning.

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After a period when it looked like scammers had got bored with the 419, here it is back in abundance. We have received five or six of these in the course of a couple of weeks, after months of being free of them.

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Interestingly, the classic 419 scam does not appear to have had its day yet. This fine example dropped into the inbox a few days ago.

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Like the common cold, the advance fee fraud (or 419) scammers keep adapting to survive. Here’s a cautionary tale from The Register which seems to involve almost every trick in the scammers’ book

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Here’s a very sad tale from BBC News – and a salutary one for all of us that have rolled our eyes on receiving yet another 419 scam email. It’s a story of how Nigerian fraudsters are preying on the hopes of young African footballers with largely unrealistic dreams of making it big:

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Here’s an interesting report from BBC News for everyone thoroughly sick of getting fake lottery notifications in their email inbox, involving the arrest of no less than 87 Nigerians.

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