Imagine that you are a talented musician who applies for and wins an extremely competitive scholarship to study with the music teacher of your dreams. At the end of your course of study, you are virtually guaranteed a well-paid and secure position in the music industry. The scholarship is the payoff for years of practice, effort, planning, and sacrifice.
Except that you don't know that you actually won the scholarship. You don't know because your significant other girlfriend has been monitoring your email, and, because she does not want you to move away, deletes the scholarship award email, creates a phony email from the scholarship committee to you indicating you did not get the scholarship, and then sends another phony email back to the scholarship committee telling them that you are rejecting its offer.
You don't find out until you run into the music teacher much later.
And that's what happened here. Unbelievable and horrible. And worth $350K in a court judgment.
Email security is a thing, people. Even with people you "trust."
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