It can happen here: Scams a-plenty

[DonaldW]

I once got an email from friend Owen Lee in Zijua telling me a very sad tale about him being in the hospital and not having money to pay for an operation, about to die and that he was going to have to sell his hotel and would pay me back. He needed $2000. Since I knew him and knew he was ill when I left him, I was really close to making the loan when I noticed that the words he was using in his emails didn't really sound like him.

Turns out that his yahoo email account was hacked and the email went to every one of his previous guests. Not sure what happened with this but I sent the email on to all Mexico authorities I could find and to Yahoo. Never heard back from any of them but I am sure someone if not many fell for this scam because of the elderly Owen in his failing health brought sympathy to all of us.