Internet babes, and learning from experience

There was a lovely sad story in today's papers about a South Australian farmer who had been lured to Mali on an internet dating scam. As you might expect, not only was the charming young lady he'd been emailing not there, he was taken to a makeshift cell and held prisoner for ransom.

This all very sad, and I think also a testament to how hope and loneliness can trump common sense. On his return, he said he'd learnt a lesson. Fair enough.

But what struck me was one report that said he'd had a similar experience 3 years ago in Russia.