Phil.
Your yahoo account has been hacked and I just got an email from you to say you were on holiday in Panama and had been mugged and lost everything.
Could I help and send $2800 by wire transfer ?
Sorry mate only got $2,795 in Paypal so have to pass on this.
Hope you get home OK.
Hi John,
I've just wasted about 5 hours of my life trying to sort this mess out. I am sat on my settee in Marple and have never been to (or will go to) Panama, the Phillipines or wherever the scumbags say I am.
The culprit is in Nigeria and not only did he send out the emails but he (or she) set up a philfern[at]yahoo.com email address and had all my genuine emails forwarded to that account. For good measure (I assume so I couldn't warn anyone) he wiped out my contacts and my sent items folder!
Three password changes and some help from a nice BT lady in India and I think all is sorted. I have hopes that BT can reinstate my contacts as I had many hundreds and it would be very tedious to go through all my folders to reconstruct it.
I wish them a lingering and very painful death!

You can send the $2,795 from your PayPal account anyway.

Phil.