Fords Woman Taken in an Email Scam

A Fords woman was a victim of an email scam that cost her almost $1,400.

said that the woman received an email Sunday morning from her sister, who said she was in the Philippines, she had been mugged, and she needed money to get home. 

The Fords woman, afraid for her sister's safety, immediately wired $1,100 through Western Union to her sibling.

A short time later, the Fords woman received another email from her sister, asking for more money. The sister wired another $264 to the Philippines.

She tried to call her sister several times Sunday without getting an answer. She told police she thought that since her sister had been mugged, the crooks had probably stolen her cell phone as well as other items.

Monday morning, though, the Fords woman received yet another email, asking for more money. She tried her sister's cell phone number again, and this time, she answered.

Her sister was OK; the problem, though, was that she said she had never been in the Philippines and hadn't been mugged.

The woman figured out that her email account had been hacked. Police determined the Fords woman was the victim of a flimflam and gave her information on how to file an Internet complaint.