A few months ago an old mate who is well known in our part of the UK had his email hacked. All his contacts were then sent a variation on this email. The sob story in this instance was that he had been mugged in Spain and had everything, cash/credit-cards/passport/etc stolen, thus desperately needed loadsamoney mailed immediately so he could pay off all travel bills and come home. He quickly set up a new email to alert us all as soon as he discovered the hack, but sadly some good kind friends were taken in by the fraudster and conned out of a fair few quid. The common link seems to be originating from Spain.
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