As it goes on, it gets funnier and funnier…spammer getting more and more desperate to actually get some money out of this sentimental idiot !

Nah. I've replied to scammers before, for the same comedy reasons. Nigerian scammers just ain't that sophisticated. I told them I was Lawrence Tureaud, but my friends called me T. And that I had a BA from Baracus University. I was currently employed by Team A Ltd and that we were currently without an address, but if they had a problem, if no one else could help... It went straight over their heads - they did not work it into their script. They did not reply in cutely ungrammatical English. They did sometimes try to improvise for a bit, but their English wasn't good enough. The actual people sending these emails mail out thousands a day. They're usually paid for volume with a bonus for advancing you up the script, then the next guy takes over. These aren't highly-paid multilingualists, but housewives and shop clerks making a bit of spare money by following a script. James Veitch's correspondent is way too eloquent. I simply don't believe it's possible. A whole book? No way.