Everyone on our email Address list received an email supposedly from us staing the following:-
"Hope you get this on time. Rhonda and I made a trip to Madrid, Spain and had our bags stolen from us with my passport and personal effects therein. The embassy has just issued me a temporary passport but I have to pay for a ticket and settle hotel bills. I've made contact with my bank but it would take me 5 sorking days to access funds in my account from Madrid.
Western Union transfer is the best option to send money to me. Let me know if you need my details (Full names/location) to make the transfer. You can reach me vai email or the Blue Island hotel's desk phone 34962463149
Let me know if you can be of any help
Derek and Rhonda Searle
The above email address is an incorrect spelling of our surname. Everything was emptied out of our Yahoo email box, folders, address book etc. Gradually the folders returned after 48 hours but the Address Book never returned, so it was impossible to advise our Contacts that this was a scam. One person sent money to Western Union but found out in time that it was a Scam and Western Union returned their money thankfully.
We are not the only ones on the mid-north coast of NSW to have been affected by this same scam.
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