That has been going on for a while. At least fifteen years ago, I read an article about the Irish police busting a guy who was doing the Nigerian letter thing o

That has been going on for a while. At least fifteen years ago, I read an article about the Irish police busting a guy who was doing the Nigerian letter thing out of an internet cafe. The man was described as "African-American", though there was no evidence given in the article that he had ever crossed the Atlantic.