228 african appropriations
so close to their originals that they have not only acquired the character
and rhetorical power of their originals, they even call bona fide emails into
question—in the eyes of readers acquainted with 419 scams, at least. The
copies have negative repercussions for their originals, and it may well be-
come increasingly difficult in the future to differentiate between genuine
correspondence and fraudulent 419 copies.