Yes, excellent link Tabithina - I really enjoyed reading the stuff on that site.
I plan to extract at least one more response out of Wemba, by sheer tenacity, if necessary; he must either respond or shut down his Yahoo account - there is no third option.
Further developments…
I’ve deliberately included the ‘kidnappers’ address in the pasted message, I’m sort of hoping Wemba will contact them himself.
Mangetout, I grovel before your greatness. worships
Dear Dr. Sir/Madam Mangetout,
Impressed I am for your sheer tenacity to wind up these nefarious Nigerian scammers.
Wish you I to give $20,000 of local my money to you as a kindness gesture for the received entertainment and doing selfless civic duty. Meritorious you are.
Provide to me, most kind Dr. Sir/Madam, your checking account number and I shall deposit it in happily.
Yrs. Warmly,
Mrs. Prunella Nodcock Clunch-Ovrbite III
Elbonia
Ok gang,
I will be as unhappy as the next to see this thing end…but what then? I suggest a spam attack of our own. What about spaming this guy. 10, 20, or more email a day by each of us! Flood him with crap. Mangetout when it is done, you give us address and we will address him.
Eeegh, just an idea.
Hay-ulp! Hay-ulp! the kidnappers want more money than Penelope can raise! (rather unsurprisingly)
AHA!! I’ve tumbled onto your little secret. :eek:
It appears that Mr. Dick Dastardly will not be able to complete our transaction. Would anyone else care to assist me? Don’t forget, it’s 100% risk free.
Very very good try ManGetOut.
Wow. Wonderful stuff.
I like your tenacity. And maybe the final email to Mr. Wemba should be in Morse code. CC the message to some phony South African Internet Law enforcement Agency.
Something like … —… (SOS) and a letter from Dick or Penelope. In Morse code of corse. Make references to law enforcement, the FBI, whatever. A bitch to decipher. I’m sure there must be a doper or program around that could do it.
And at the end. Nice to talk to you, “I finally found my pigeon”.
Kisses
Dick D
I know Morse if that would help you.
The following is the Johannesburg police web site.
http://www.joburg.org.za/metro_police/index.stm
Just to get Austin to read the Morse, include a believable CC to someone like -
johnbanner@joburg.org.za/met_police (that address will bounce)
John Banner was Sgt Shultz in Hogan’s Heros.
I KNOW NOTHING!
I dread to think that Mr. Austin Wemba was flown the coop.
Can anyone think of a way to get him back, or at least to bring some sort of finality to the Dick Dastardly saga? I daresay that it’s come to a point where there is no going back to something reasonable - it’s too absurd now. Perhaps Dick has been disposed of, but not before spilling the beans about the millions to his kidnappers, and they are on their way to SA to find Mr. Wemba and his millions, while posing as him? Penelope, utterly broken from the news of her fiancee’s death, reveals the evidence that she has found to the local police, who inform her that Mr. Wemba is in great danger (they found a note scrawled in blood from Dick’s last moments, warning of the kidnapper’s intentions to find Mr. Wemba). As such, an e-mail warning Mr. Wemba to seek refuge with the local police is sent to him, and that they are looking for him in order to protect his very life.
This could be followed up by a phone call from the kidnappers to Mr. Wemba, posing as Dick (good thing you have a phone number, huh?), as well as frantic e-mails from Penelope urging Austin to seek refuge with the local police.
Just an outlandish suggestion… 
Sadly, it would appear that Austin now knows that Mr. Dastardly is not person of serious. But the good news it that he also knows that he himself is not person of much intelligent. I suppose **Mangetout ** will have to comfort himself with the knowledge of a job well done.
I’ve sent one more desperate, pleading message from Penelope; if he doesn’t respond now, I think I’ll just contact Yahoo and have his account shut down (which probably won’t inconvenience him at all.
I get up to a dozen scam emails per week and this has been my first attempt at the game; there will be more in future, possibly featuring Mr Richard Dastardly Esq.
You know, for your next trick, you should try to set two of these guys up with each other. Suppose you get two e-mails, one from scammer A and one from scammer B, both located in Lagos or Johanesburg or wherever. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to maneuver scammer A into a face-to-face meeting with scammer B (while posing, of course, as pigeon C). Much hilarity will, no doubt, ensue.
I think Truth Seeker is on to something here. If you get as many of these scams a week as I do, you could probably make contact with seven or eight scammers at a time. Try to have them all show up at the same airport at the same time, all holding signs saying “Dick Dastardly”. 
I second the idea, but I believe Mr. Dastardly might have lost a little credibility. Perhaps the next “victim” ought to be Pearl Slaghoople?
–SSgtBaloo
Well, Mr Wemba’s email account is no more, thanks to a prompt response from abuse@yahoo.com…
I like the idea of trying to get two scammers to meet each other - I think that they would have to be in the same country to begin with - It would be nice to get one to fork out for a plane ticket, but I suspect that is an unattainable goal.
My new persona will be Sir Ivor Small-Johnson.
I love it!
I’ve been lurking over at 419 Eater, and it looks like a great resource for scam-baiters. I’m not planning on baiting anyone myself at this time, but it sure is fun to see baiters in action.
Bravo, Mangetout. This has been a very entertaining counter-scam. Nice job!
I look forward to “Fun and Games with two Mugus.”
Mangetout I nominate you for a Noble Prize for Best Comedic Writing.
I bow before your greatness, sir.