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I occasionally respond to Nigerian 419 scam e-mails in an effort to waste their time. I do it mainly because I figure the time spent corresponding with me is time they’re not spending scamming someone else.

Last week, I had a series of exchanges with “Dr. Paul Neville” who appeared in my inbox offering me a loan. The ruse illustrated that some of these people will respond to anything. And, yes, I set up a fake Yahoo account for this.

Warning: Bathroom humor of the vilest form ahead. If graphic, bodily function jokes of questionable humor bother you, read no further. I don’t want any letters saying I’m a disgusting, pathetic juvenile loser. We all know that already.

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Whenever the mainstream media embarrasses itself and I am ashamed of my profession—practically every day lately—I always comfort myself with the fact that at least I didn’t become a lawyer.

My latest source of comfort comes in the form of one John Ferron, an Ohio attorney who seems to spend a lot of his time signing up for permission-based commercial e-mails and then suing the senders for picayune, hyper-technical alleged infractions of the state’s consumer protection laws.

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