I remember the first time I came across the Nigerian email scam -- I'd had a particularly unpredictable and eventful year bumming my way around the world and, when an email arrived announcing that a ...

A woman has told of being conned out of £200,000 by a romance scammer who bombarded her with gushing messages every day for two-and-a-half years. Elizabeth, who is in her sixties and lives in rural ...