Social Security
Online scammers hijacked a Facebook account and started to use it to intimidate her friends into giving her (them) money with stories about how she was stranded and lost her credit cards and needed funds wired via Western Union. $1000 was sent.
Facebook shut her account down upon request, but took 12 hours to do this, meaning that the corruption had a chance to spread as a direct result of the trust relationship that Facebook assumes should exist.
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See: Stuff.co.nz