Scammers are trying to trick Internet users into wiring them money by pretending to be tourists who have been mugged while vacationing in Kiev, Ukraine.
The scam emails spotted by Bitdefender carry the subject line HelpDouglas Crandall and they read something like this:
Im writing this with tears in my eyes, my family and I came down here to Kiev, Ukraine for a short vacation, unfortunately we were mugged at the park of the ho…