Making Light is a blog run by some pretty serious poetry intellects. In This Installment the community puts a "Nigerian 419" email scam to poety, using various medieval to modern tropes. An example by James D. Macdonald, as a Shakespearean Sonnet:

I now salute you in the name of Ghod,
I who a piteous widow must complain.
My son, my joy, arrested by a squad —
And in far Lagos he shall soon be slain.
The cash for his defense my husband hid
(I mean the late Abacha, even he),
I cannot use; for unjust laws forbid
That my funds can now be released to me.
There’s thirty millions that I cannot touch
But I can send to you, a man I trust:
O heed a widow’s prayer; your sleeve I clutch!
Relying on your kindness now I must
Request the number of your bank account.
I swear you’ll gain a very great amount.

Some of these are priceless!

How clever! Thanks for sharing. /Craig

What a unique way to take something so distasteful and turn it into something fun and useful (for practice, genre, etc.), and no one wrongly scammed in the process. Thanks for sharing!

Millions of dollars
Your account is all I need
Please respond quickly

Very funny. I received my first "correspondence" from the fallen royalty when i just learned the cyber-meaning of "spam"...

And i never turned it to poetry. now sounds like we can open a thread for poetry dedicated to spam (of various kind...lol)

Thanks for sharing. I had a good laugh!

A whole new genre for the 21st century
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what shall we call it

perhaps in years to come they will be known as the 'spamites'??

Spam Hash of course

That is so good.

Can you do one about - "You've won the European Lottery - just send us 600Euros processing fee and thousands will be yours ...."?

Matthew Fouts
Online Dating III

Hello!!!!!
I which tender girl alone one without
the man. I very strongly want will find
the man with which to me well and easy.

To me to like in the man kind and
tender. I very much like to go
to cinema to listen to music.
me to like To walk on park.

o me very much to like to make a tasty
supper I like to prepare for a baked pudding
with meat.