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PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781780270098

RRP: £6.99

PAGES: 208

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 17, 2011

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Why Me?: The Very Important Emails of Bob Servant

Neil Forsyth

Bob Servant is troubled. The economy is collapsing, his health is failing and around his hometown of Broughty Ferry, Bob is struggling to get the respect he deserves. Fortunately his email junk folder is bursting with offers of assistance from around the world. In these genuine emails, Bob Servant looks to the Internet’s worst con merchants and charlatans for answers to his many woes.

Neil Forsyth

Neil Forsyth is an author and journalist. A fellow Dundonian and friend to Bob Servant for over twenty years, he currently lives in Edinburgh. He is also author of Other People’s Money, a biography of fraudster Elliot Castro, and a novel, Let Them Come Through.

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