How to make money from online scam artists

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Ever get one of those "Excellent Opportunity!!!!" emails from an alleged Nigerian government official offering millions of bucks?

Me neither, actually. But last year, Rich Siegel, then a group creative director at Young & Rubicam Brands, decided, as the saying goes, to follow the money (and he even left Y&R to do so).

The result is Tuesdays with Mantu, a Borders book (available on Amazon.com), that cannily reprints (along with all the amazingly formal yet bogus documentation) Siegel’s actual (hilarious, insane, and at times, cruel) seven month-long e-mail relationship with one Mr.

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