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I received an email from my friend claiming that she is stranded in a foreign country and desperately needs my help to get home.
I'm sorry for this odd request because it might get to you too urgent but it's because of the situation of things right now, i'm stuck in london right now, i came down here on vacation and i was robbed, worse of it is that bags, cash and cards and my cell phone was stolen at GUN POINT, it's such a crazy experience for me, i need help flying back home, the authorities are not being 100% supportive but the good thing is i still have my passport but don't have enough money to get my flight ticket back home, please i need you to loan me some money, will refund you as soon as i'm back home, i promise.
Colleen
The email originates from her real email account.
I had not seen her for more than a month, so I didn’t know what she has been up to.
I sent her an email back asking how I can help her.
Thanks for your quick response, well what we need now is a financial help, our return flight leaves in few hours but we are literally stranded here, we need some money to pay for hotel bills and also get a taxi to the airport till we are back home to refund it back...Can you help us with that? Thanks, Colleen
I offered to pay the hotel bill using my credit card.
Well I just talked to the hotel manager and they won't take a US card over the phone but you can wire money to us here using your credit card online with western union, thats how we got some money wired to us earlier, you can visit www.westernunion.com and figure it out, Thanks alot.
Okay, this is getting strange… I called her cell phone, she didn’t pick it up.
I called her best friend, but she didn’t pick it up.
I sent back an email, “I need the hotel name, address… and how much do you need?”
I was planning to call her at the hotel.
At this time I thought this might be a scam.
Three hours later, I found she is in NY and the emails were not from her.
Anyway, I got two more mails from this scammer. (The IP Address is in Mauritius,Africa
)
He or she used my friend’s name but different email address this time; my friend’s email is @hotmail.com, and the scammer’s is using @operamail.com
Sorry for my late response, I was busy filling out some forms with the police, well $700 is all we need more and all you need to do is just wire the money to my name and to the location here which is London, United Kingdom, then I can pick up the money with my passport at any authorized western union office here.
Thanks, Colleen
Did you get my last message? Are you on it? Please let us know and I hope you can get this done for us before out flight leaves.
They went to my Junk mail folder, so I didn’t see them until later.
So, someone has her ID, even though she has never been in England.
Anyhow, they hacked into my Gmail this evening.
I got the hacker’s IP Address which belongs to someone in Witcha, Kansas.
I changed my password, deleted all my emails and contacts, but it might be too late.
Once they have hacked into an account, the scammers can then send an email with the false claims about being stranded and in need of money to all the email addresses included in the account's address book.( http://www.hoax-slayer.com/stranded-scam.shtml)
If you get an email from me asking for help/money, please don’t reply to it.
Even if I’m in trouble in the oversea, I am sure that I can get back home safely and I will write about the exciting story on my blog.![]()


友人と警察にこの詐欺を通告しました。FBIに連絡する事になるそうです。
(友人を騙ったメールのIPアドはアフリカの モーリシャス
です。
FBIではなくCIAの仕事ではないかしら?)
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