Years ago there was a Dutch notary who transferred about a million euros from his escrow account to someone pretending to be the Dutch prime on MSN Messenger. T

Years ago there was a Dutch notary who transferred about a million euros from his escrow account to someone pretending to be the Dutch prime on MSN Messenger. The email address was "ThePrimeMinister@hotmail.com" or something like that. They had a long story about national security and urgent need to access the funds and whatnot. There were a lot of suspicions that he might be in on the scam, but as near as anyone could determine, he really was just scam victim. He did get disbarred and got a prison sentence of a year or so (IIRC) because while a victim, he also could and should have known better as a notary dealing with an escrow account.