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Today I had a phone call with the 'mugged while out of the country' scenario.  Someone called pretending to be a local colleague who'd been mugged while in Canada after the sudden death of a friend.  His nose was broken - that's why he sounded funny.  When he asked me to look up a phone number for Citibank, I realized it was a scam.  The real guy might ask me to call some guests for him, but we're not close enough for me to help him like that.  I'm sure we were just a small step away from being asked for money.  I said I would have to call him back with that information, got a number and hung up.  I still couldn't believe that someone was actually making this up.  I called their inn and the phone was busy.  But this guy's mother lives right down the street from me, so I called her - guess who answered the phone?  'Wow, you're not in Canada! - I said.  And the call back number was out of service.

Is it any wonder we're all cynical? Who pulls those kind of awful tricks