> A scam of this type needs to be pretty tightly targeted to work. The > scammer would need at least a matched pair of addresses and a good > probability that the supposed sender could be somewhere near the place > where the alleged robbery was said to have happened.
If I've got access to your freemail account, I've got access to your address book. The one of these I encountered at $DAYJOB was sent to the account owner's wife's ex-husband-- not my first choice when asking for emergency funds. The email also claimed he was traveling in London-- the guy AFAIK hasn't left Texas, let alone the US, in the past few years-- and used a number of phrases that a native speaker of American so-called-English wouldn't. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!!" -- Bill McKenna
