Peter Worthington, a co-founder of the English daily Toronto Sun published in Ontario and Toronto of Canada was lately struck with a scam e-mail, published Torontosun.com dated December 17, 2011.
Actually, a friend of Worthington lately called him to say that she got one electronic mail from him that stated that he, while touring Madrid, Spain lost his bag containing cash, credit cards and passport to thieves. Thus, he required her to help with some money, preferably wired through Western Union, for solving the current problem. Moreover, she could write to him over e-mail alternatively call at the desk phone-number 3496-246-3149 of Blue Island Hotel, the e-mail ended in anticipation of a response, the friend narrated.
Soon, phone calls started coming to Worthington from contacts whose e-mail ids were listed on his address book and had been recipients of the e-mail. But, another friend named Vince Courtenay recognized the e-mail as false since it began with "Hi!" that was unlikely for Worthington to use.
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