The Nigerian scammers are out everywhere, I swear. They crawl all over the internet, trying to get you to cash cheques and money orders for them and send them money. They offer to pay you for cashing cheques for them, you name it. This is certainly a very scary twist on it, however - I didn't realize that they'd bumped it up to "buying" things over the net and trying to scam money that way.

Best one that I had was an African artist that I met on MySpace. Talked to him, as friends, for roughly 8 months before he had to go to school. Suddenly, I was getting a speech about how he had to travel through all these war zones and how, in order to pay for his schooling, he had to do "work" for this man that involved weapons, etc. He began begging me for money, so he wouldn't have to "work" for this man anymore.

Shyeah...right.