I have not been somebody who is known for gags, but fortunately I'm surrounded by people who enjoy pulling a fast one on somebody and a few times I have also been roped into the fun.

One incident I remember from 2001 concerns a photographer. One day, two other colleagues used a fake chat ID, got in touch with this photographer, and pretended to be a hot chick from Russia. When the time came to exchange photographs, our lensman faithfully sent across his picture and when he wanted a photo of the Russian babe, well, me and my friends went across to a site called uglypeople.com, picked up an extremely fine specimen who looked like she had jumped off a Picasso painting, and sent it to our photographer pal.

Seeing is not believing: Next time somebody sends you a mail telling you that Angelina Jolie wants to date you because she thinks that you are a handsome hunk, just delete it.