Email scam targets Nimbin woman
A Nimbin woman holidaying on the NSW south coast this week was oblivious to the chaos that erupted after her email account had been hijacked by scammers in far-off Nigeria.
In a new twist to – and a combination of – identity fraud and Nigerian letter scams, the hackers used the email account of retired school teacher Sue Stock, 60, to appeal to all her email contacts to send money to Nigeria, saying she had been robbed and bashed on her way to an AIDS conference and had ended up in hospital.
In poor English, the hackers asked her friends to immediately send $2800 through Western Union in her name so she could cover medical expenses and her return ticket home from Nigeria.
