Another Scam via email address, be aware!

I received an email from what appeared to be friend in distress this morning. In fact the sender has registered an email address very close to the genuine email address of my friend, thus when I first looked at it I didn't initially spot the scam. I will give an example in a moment, but following is the actual message:

Dear Ron,

The amount asked for would have had me suspicious straight away Ron, £780, wouldn't you normally round it up to the nearest hundred. But then again I've a suspicious nature anyway. There's always someone trying to pull something off, well spotted and thanks for the post.

As you say you can never be to careful with money on the internet, or anywhere else for that matter - dodgy petrol stations cloning debit cards is still a favourite and no internet is involved. Beware.

This happened to me three years ago I made the mistake of emailing back to my friend that was supposedly stuck in Madrid to check if and warn him of the Scam little did I know that the scammer had control of my friends computer the next thing that happened the full address book disappeared, followed by every file on the computer opening hundreds of times each time the computer was booted.

Result had to strip the hard drive with a reformat programme and re install everything