IISG

African e-mails Collection

Period  2000-2009, 2012
Total size   0.12 m.
Consultation Not restricted

History

Daily thousands of persons and companies receive e-mails with spectacular business proposals promising to get rich; they are sent from West Africa, mostly Nigeria, and are written in a solemn English.

Content

A selection of printed e-mails sent by people from West African countries, mainly Nigeria, seducing the addressees to invest their money 2000-2003; some documentation on this issue 2002-2009, 2012.