Lads from Lagos crack cabinet minister's webmail account
Tue, Feb 24th, 2009 |
Advanced fee fraudsters have broken into the webmail account of UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw to mount an audacious, and potentially politically embarrassing, scam.
Hundreds of Straw's contacts received a bogus (and frankly implausible) message on Thursday claiming the cabinet minister was stranded in Nigeria and in desperate need of $3,000 dollars to settle expenses get a flight home. Constituents, Ministry of Justice officials, Labour members and council bosses all received the bogus assistance pleas, The Daily Telegraph reports.
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