Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Gold Dust for Sale (2007)
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:01:49 +0200
Subject: GOLD DUST FOR SALE
From: “rockmining_co”
Dear, Greeting ,
I wish to bring to your notice an offer to be our international agent for the sales of AU Gold.
My name is willie Frimpong and I hail from the royal family in Takwahregion, in Ghana which is naturally endowed with the highest quality of gold dust in Africa.
I have been nominated to represent the whole of the village as the spokesman with the main objective of finding a reliable, competent and honest international buyer or agent.
We the youths of the village as taken it upon ourselves to find a lasting solution to the poor roads,cheap and standard education,rural infrastructure,good hospital and medical care and hygenic drinking water for ourselves and our entire villagers,despite the fact that we are blessed with rich natural resources like gold dust.
I hope you will be kind enough to assist us make this dream of ours a reality.
Kind regards,
willie Frimpong.
