Online scams: Your stories

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The RCMP are warning that online scams are on the rise.
A woman in western P.E.I. spent the weekend taking phone calls from worried friends after she fell victim to a type of scam RCMP say is becoming more common.
Someone cracked Sister Norma Gallant's Yahoo e-mail account and sent a message to everyone one in her address book. The message said she was in England, had lost her wallet, and didn't have any money to pay her hotel bill. The e-mail asked the recipients to send money.
Gallant had never left her home in Wellington.
Const. Troy MacLean of the RCMP's commercial crime unit on P.E.I. said this type of fraud is becoming more common. So far this year, 98 people in Canada have been victims of similar scams and people have lost close to $3 million.
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