A British accountant is going to jail for 18 months after he borrowed money from a friend to pay an online scammer that he thought was his girlfriend. The 79 year-old
Brian Ridpath has
been found guilty of fraud by misrepresentation and for lying to his friend about a girlfriend that he'd only ever met online. The girlfriend turned out to be a Nigerian email scam.
The friend gave him
$184,000 to help pay her bills with the intentions of being paid back soon.Read the whole story at Naked Security »