O boy ! One of my friend got an email in 2011 from his buddy email id that he is stuck in some foreign country and need some cash to pay hotel money..He ended up sending 1000$.
After that he got an email from buddy that email is hacked

..when he told us about this, we end up laughing our butt off.
Next day,We went cops and they couldn't stop laughing. IP address was traced to some where in kenya..They filed the report and told us to forget 1000$.
Story doesnot end here. After a week he got another email saying that they were able to catch the person who scammed him and to provide bank account details to transfer the money back.
Also there was pic of guy as a soldier at the bottom of the message.