Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Engr. Demba Sow, Dakar, Senegal (2006)
This is one message from a collection of email scams. We don’t send these messages! We just collect the ones we receive and document them here for the benefit of others; we are not able to respond to inquiries about them. These are often called “Nigerian” advance fee frauds or “419 scams,” although they now originate from all over the world. There is information available elsewhere on the web that will help you filter spam and protect yourself against fraud.
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From: Mr Demba dembasow@virgilio.it
Reply-To: demsow@mail.ru
Date: Jul 1, 2006 9:16 AM
Subject: My Dear Friend,
My Dear Friend,
I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the Gold and Natural resources ministry here in Dakar Senegal, for security reasons, I may not wish to disclose the most important thing for now until I hear from you.
Best regards.
Engr. Demba Sow
