some years back, before facebook, interstate friends of a friend replied to an I'm-stuck-in-a-foreign-country-with-no-money email & sent several thousand by Western Union as instructed in the second email. Bye-bye-money.

Had they contacted anyone here in Sydney they would have known she was at home.

I later got a similar email from another friend's hacked address & contacted her by her other address.

Both friends had to change their email addresses.

sandra