I hope this doesn't count as spamming the wiki, but I listened to this podcast from This American Life a few weeks ago and thought that it related to today's reading nicely. It is about modern day "enforcers" who target West Africans who run schemes that are confidence tricks, somewhat like the "Spanish Prisoner" schemes.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1260

-- JamilaMcCoy - 17 Feb 2009