http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ny-I-have.html
THESE days there's more spam in inboxes than pensioners' larders.
The vast majority of recipients wisely delete the bogus emails, commonly designed to con the naïve out of money, but one trusting man has enough time on his hands to take the senders' proposals seriously ? with hilarious consequences.
Self-professed Hero of Dundee Bob Servant ? the 64-year-old alter-ego of author and journalist Neil Forsyth ? has made a habit of engaging the fraudsters in online conversations.
The outcome is always the same ? he gives the culprits hope before slowly ebbing it away via a series of absurd requests, questions and observations about their so-called grand plans.
He managed to get a man claiming to be a Liberian refugee embroiled in a debate about Dawn French and demanded an 'Australian businessman' ? who sent a picture of himself ? shave off his beard before agreeing to wire money to him.
The latter does as asked, emailing the same snap with the facial hair digitally rubbed out.
The email exchanges are among those that appear in new book Why Me? The Very Important Emails Of Bob Servant by Neil Forsyth.
Read the two rib-tickling chapters in full below.