Spam FAIL

SIR – How right you were to think that spammers are becoming ever more creative (“Confidence game”, November 20th). Only last week I received an e-mail from the “Nigerian Space Agency” asking me for assistance in connection with the rescue of a Nigerian astronaut stranded on the Soviet Salyut 6 space station, where he has apparently been stuck since a secret space flight took him there in 1989, never to return after the subsequent demise of the Soviet Union. Ian Fleming would have been impressed.

Julius Hugelshofer
Paris