Lesley Martin just wanted to pay it forward.

After avoiding a Nigerian phishing fraud, the Toronto life coach and communications consultant started wondering about the young man behind a computer screen half a world away who had tried to rip her off.

Martin, who also works as a part-time standup comic and therefore keeps her social media and email accounts public, is no stranger to attempted spam scams.

So — like a scene out of Will Ferguson’s 2012 Giller Prize-winning novel 419 — she engaged…

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