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Stephanie Bunbury

Stephanie Bunbury joined Fairfax after studying fine arts and film at university, but soon discovered her inner backpacker and obeyed that call. She has spent the past two decades flitting between Europe and Australia, writing about film, culture high and low and the arts.

James Veitch has turned online scamming into comedy.

Russian sexbots be warned: Veitch is on to you

Everyone gets them: those emails inviting you to join in a lucrative business deal in Ghana, begging you to warehouse a roomful of gold ingots or simply suggesting that your online  presence is so winning that the supplicant would like to marry you, pronto. Delete, delete, delete. Surely nobody is idiotic enough to be taken in by this nonsense? Except that they must be, because those emails keep on coming.