The Internet and e-mail combine to make a marvelous tool. Instant publishing, ahem, instant information, instant communication, instant scams.

I, my very own self, have made hundreds of millions of American dollars by providing my banking information to about a half dozen Nigerian benefactors with big hearts who just needed a way to funnel honest money out of a corrupt government's treasury. Call it karma.

This morning, we got word of a "new" carjacking scheme making the e-mail warning system around here.

Soon-to-be jackers place some type of paper on a vehicle's rear windshield in a parking lot. When the owner returns, pretty zoned out from a day's shopping or whatever, they jump in, back up, and look behind them to see an obstruction to their vision. They brake, get out to remove the paper, and carjackers take over from there.

Sounds plausible until you think about how many cars might be in a given shopping center lot, how many sheets of paper the jackers would have to put out, how lazy crooks are, and how many cars they'd have to watch.

‘Sides, sounds a little familiar to me. Oh, I know, the perpetrators are from Nigeria. Read it in an e-mail.

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