IF you haven’t received an email offering you a generous proposition of being the beneficiary of an unclaimed bank account with millions of dollars somewhere in Africa, e.g. Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast (you learn lessons in geography), then you are an exception. If you haven’t received an email stating you have won a fortune in a UK lottery, even if you haven’t bought a ticket, then you are an exception.
Behold the dark side of the electronic age in this millennium. The highwayman of old lurked in the dark and preyed on the unwary; the hold-upper used to lie in wait in a grimy street corner and pounced on his prey. These days, to go about his dastardly deed, he sits in a corner of his room, possibly in his pajamas trolling the net, banging away on a keyboard or frequents some smoke-filled internet café hatching schemes, halfway around the world.
