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Has anyone come across the scam where the scammer captures someone's email contacts and then sends out piteous emails explaining how the person is travelling abroad, has been mugged and lost everything? S/he needs immediate money to be able to get home.
I've only experienced this once. My first reaction was to think it might be true, because this was someone who had asked me for various kinds of help (not financial) in the past. But I was suspicious because the purported sender of the email was British and the email seemed to be in American English. I found an alternative way of making contact and she was quite OK. She zapped the email account.
I did for several years send money to someone I knew in Uganda to put her through university. I was asked several times if I was sure what I was doing, so clearly it must have looked as though I were falling victim to a scam.
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