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TITLE: “Nigerian 419 Email Scams”
SPECIAL GUEST: Geoff Browne
419 scams are a type of fraud and one of the most common types of confidence trick.
There are many variations on this type of scam, including advance-fee fraud, Fifo’s Fraud, Spanish Prisoner Scam, black money scam. The number “419” refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud. The scam has been used with fax and traditional mail, and is now used with the internet
ABOUT GEOFF BROWNE
Geoff’s Browne’s career spans more than twenty years on global locations ranging from the steaming jungles of Nigeria and Belize to the most remote areas of Tibet, India and Malaysia. He has lived in a cave in a village in China and spent long days filming a voyage at sea that took him across the Atlantic Ocean from the Southern tip of Argentina to Cape Town South Africa. In one of his films, “Call it Karma,” he travelled alone into remote regions of Tibet and stayed in a remote village with nomads and Buddhist monks to create his award winning film.
His most recent works include producing and doing cinematography on a feature with Tom Sizemore and Michael Pare. Another “Beyond Justice,” with Misha Barton, Danny Trejo, Vinnie Jones and Luke Goss, “Legend, with Vern Troyer.” He was a cinematographer on the National Geographic series Drugs Inc, and has also directed PSA’s with Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Roberta Flack and David Steinberg.
Recently, he has been on location in Nigeria developing a film on the Nigerian scams called ‘The Letter.’ In a fascinating twist, he tells the story from the Nigerian side. It’s about a Nigerian teenager who wants to move his family out of the Niger Delta but he can’t get work with the local Oil corporations so he decides to join a group of email scammers to pull off a scam that will forever change his life.
The story is based on the true scams and their victims.
