The satire site BBSpot ran an article a long time ago about a “Nigerian Philanthropist” named Esenam Ayele who was having a lot of trouble giving his millions away because of all the bad press Nigerian scammers were getting…

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/09/nigerian_millions.html

The folks at BBSpot get a lot of mail, and a consistent item every week is the person writing in to ask for contact information for Esenam (second email)...

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/07/mailbag_20050720.html

The people who do BBSpot consider anyone who believes one of their satirical articles as real a “True Believer”. And I don’t think that they put any effort into setting the record straight. I’m of the opinion that the BBSpotters have fun hoaxing the gullible, as their mailbag articles show…

http://www.bbspot.com/archives/index_mailbag.html

Enjoy!