this is really terrible! so inhuman. I cannot fathom such criminal minds. how can they even sleep peacefully knowing that they stole something they did not work hard for? may God deal with them.
If something is possible then someone somewhere is going to do it. It only takes one wrong 'un.
People need to account for that and act accordingly.
I may well have fallen for this if I was an Electrum user, but I would never use a PC-based wallet in the first place. I've never really understood why Electrum is rated when many use it on an inherently insecure platform.