Makes you worry and wonder though, what could be assertained (however mistakenly) via datamining? What happens when the mid-management like flunkies of various MI# decide that profiles can be built up from the scattered info that lives on the net/public archives.

Tracing all the little packets of info that point you towards being a non-conformist-neo-anarchist-hacker-vum-terrorist (Because all law breakers are terrorists don'cher know)!?!

The freakiest scam I ever got was actually an alternative to the 'Nigerian Prince' scam. It was when that one first appeared, and my version was the Gambian Ex-Prime Minister.

Freaked me out completely as I was actually travelling to the Gambia two days after the mail arrived.

I can only blame a near mental collapse on the reason I didn't pick it up as a hoax straight away - but I tool a lot of calming down before I'd get off that plane. I was expecting to be met with bullets!