My mother could barely contain her excitement over the phone.
"Your father and I were caught in an international scam this morning!" she said breathlessly.
They'd received an e-mail from Dick, an old and close family friend, saying that he was in Scotland on vacation and had been robbed and needed cash, $1,250 to be exact, wired to a Western Union office in Glasgow. Fortunately, before sending any money, my father became suspicious and asked "Dick" to call him. He didn't get a call, but he did get a mortified e-mail from the real Dick, explaining that his e-mail account had been hacked into and all of his friends had gotten the same fraudulent message.
"Isn't that awful!" exclaimed my mother, appalled at the thought of some greedy, cynical criminal out there trying to cash in on our natural desire to help a friend in trouble.
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