Here's a an e-mail I got today from the Yahoo e-mail account of a friend of mine who is an ordained deacon in the Catholic Church. I lot of people know him, and I wonder how many will believe this message which most likely was sent to everyone in his address book. Here's the text:

I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,my family and I came over here to London,United Kingdom for a short vacation. unfortunately,we were mugged at the park of the hotel where we stayed,all cash and credit card were stolen off us but luckily for us we still have our passports with us.

We've been to the Embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and our flight leaves in few hours from now but we're having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let us leave until we settle the bills. Well I really need your financial assistance..Please, Let me know if you can help us out? Am freaked out at the moment!!

Interestingly, there's no instructions where to send money to help him out. This appears to be one of the many worms that attack Yahoo and MSN e-mail accounts. I've heard changing one's password can help stop the problem, but I dunno.

-Joe-