On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:44:59 -0400, "Matthew"
wrote:

Hoptis sent me an email telling me that she got an email from one of our
Posters named Winne; which I have not seen in a long time, asking for money.
Hoptis newsgroups on her internet server are acting funny so she ased me to
post this asap.
Here is the email IF this is true I am sorry but Winnie and Hoptis are
not close enough friends to ask for money and she has not had any contact
with Winnie since last xmas. This is what was sent to hoptis at 11pm last
night


Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:25:21 -0700
From: I REMOVED THE EMAIL FOR PRIVACY JUST IN CASE
Subject: Hi
To: Hoptis

I really hope this gets to you in time, I was robbed during my trip to
Swansea, Wales. All my belongings including mobile phone and credit card
were all stolen. I asked my bank to cancel my cards and place hold on my
account to avoid unauthorized access. I need your help flying back home.

Am cash strapped at the moment. I've made contact with my bank but the best
they could do was to send me a new card in the mail which will take 3-5
working days to arrive here. I need you to lend me some money to sort my
self out of this predicament, I will pay back once I make it out of Wales.

Western union is the fastest option to wire funds to me, let me know if you
can help me with the funds i need so that i can send you the details you
will need when sending the funds.

I await your response.

Winnie


This a fairly old and fairly well known scam. Somebody's E-mail gets
hacked, and this E-mail is sent to everyone.

Sending money via Western Union pretty much MEANS you are getting
scammed.

People often request Western Union payment on craigslist.org, and it's
ALWAYS a scam.

Don't send money via Western Union = don't get scammed.