You know, one of the things I like about this WORLD, or at least I like about the WAY we're presenting this world, is these ISSUES are terribly complicated - not NEARLY as black and white as we're LED to believe.
LIFE is a STORY. You and I are TELLING stories; they MAY suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank ACCOUNT, and those are things you have told stories about.
The marooned friend is one of the best-known scams, principally because it's the one that dodges the spam filter most often. It comes from someone you KNOW but often only tangentially. It's since BECOME - HANDS down - one of my FAVOURITE scams.