that would explain the Telstra address – I’m actually happier that it wasn’t genuine, as literally one day previously I was looking at a crowdsourced map of verifiable data logging violence against foreigners in Greece, and incidents like that do or did happen to younger clubbers in places like Ibiza, and the local fed sometimes aren’t exactly quick to investigate as they don’t want that sort of tourist in their country in the first place.

That said, if it originally came from Africa or the Middle East, I can understand why Rome might be picked (rather than any other large European city, robberies against tourists happen in all of them) – as even if its exposed as a scam, the reputation of the city can still be damaged and it would be a way of getting revenge on ill treatment of migrants from those countries who (for simple reasons of geography) end up trying to enter Italy.