Dealing with the 419 scam

This guy has an interesting way of dealing with the Nigerial 419 scam. Shift.com Magazine sums it up nicely in their latest newsletter:

Something Awful screws around with these would-be Nigerian con artists in a hilarious reverse email prank. The whole correspondence is intercut with images from a google image search for "nigeria." It puts kind of an interesting spin on the whole thing.

In one of his replies, he writes:

We recently started selling "WTC Memorial Rooftop Parachute Kits" which are home protection packages to allow people to parachute from the roof of their house when terrorists pilot their planes into them. [...] The secret lies in the fact that the actual parachute is just a nylon blanket with knitting yarn attached to a Korn backpack!