I vaguely recall that under such circumstances as a bag ■■■■■■ in a foreign country. I think it is the responsibility of the uk government to get you home - they chase you for the monies when you are back in the uk.
I don’t think that it is their responsibility but will stand being corrected.
Certainly the British Consulate will help, they gave me some money after I had my pocket picked in Tenerife, only enough for the bus fare back to the resort though, about 20 euros and when I asked about repaying it I was told not to bother.
del949:
Or you could reply to it & see how long you can reel 'em in for.
if I understand the system correctly.
As it stands now the scammer only has the e-mail address, if you reply he will be able to access your address book and get lots more e-mail addresses.
I think!
certainly I never respond to any of these scammer mails even to say get lost etc. just delete.
I always spam any messages from people I don’t know, but as I correspond with Ash I naturally opened it, as I’m sure one or two of you did.
As soon as saw the content I knew exactly what it was as I’ve had one or two, again from people I trust, and the best thing to do is spam the message and change your mail password.
Well, what can I say?
THANK YOU ALL for your concerns as to my whereabouts. It just proves how caring and conscientious you all are 
Actually, by the looks of your comments your all a bunch of WIND UP MERCHANTS! 
But on a serious note, this is how I got “scammed”, and I don’t mind freely admitting that I FELL FOR IT HOOK LINE AND SINKER 
The scammer hacked into AOL, my internet provider. He then used the “official” AOL website to send me messages saying my email storage was almost full and I should free up more space NOW! I ignored that 3 times. Then 2 days ago I got another message in red CAPITALS saying: “If you do not activate more storage space now, you will not be able to send/receive or store emails, documents or images from midnight tonight”.
I naturally followed the “official” AOL steps which asked for my user name and password… 
BANG !
Then the screen went black and I realised something had happened.
Once the hacker had my “security” details he accessed ALL my email contacts and sent the scam message to over 500 addresses!
If anyone was to reply and offer the money, that email would be intercepted and the “hacker” would pretend to be me, giving the sender HIS bank details for the money to be paid into. 
AOL are aware of the scam as it happened to THOUSANDS of AOL customers at exactly the same time on the same day!!!
They say there is no way of tracing the “hacker” as it is probably a “remote operation”. That means a computer has been programmed to do it.
But seriously, THANKS again to everyone who has contacted me with concerns that I am OK… much appreciated lads and lasses 
If you’re ever not 100% sure about something like this, just run a block of text through Google and it’ll soon flag up if it’s a scam. Most of the scam letters I get are so poorly written that if you print one out and sniff it, it smells EXACTLY like an internet cafe in Lagos. 