But the senders of the email were not anonymous scammers sending out mass emails from the other side of the world. They were just two teenage boys, friends from a grammar school in Auckland, who thought they had found their cash cow. They asked him to reply with how much he was willing to pay to stop the tip-off happening. One left the car and ran to the bus stop while the other did a U-turn preparing to leave the way he came. He was full of compliments for Gillam and his team and seemed relatively sanguine about the unsatisfactory conclusion to the saga.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 03, 2023 11:34 UTC