A few years ago my DH received a “frantic” call from his mother – apparently some cousins had received a phone call from Mexico saying that he had been kidnapped and was being held for ransom.  Easily answered by saying “Mom, don’t you think I would have mentioned going off to Mexico?”

In the same vein is the following article from the New York Times’ David Pogue on a typical wire-me-funds scam that has a rather different ending … read all the comments, for even more laughs…