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Friday, March 28, 2014

Film-Maker Reveals "the Letter" That Makes Nigeria Millions

By Saleem Rana


Geoff Browne is a film director and cinematographer who was interviewed by Allen Cardoza on "Answers for the Family." This talk show hosted on L.A. Talk Radio was about the Nigerian rip-offs that are propagating throughout the web. They have been financially ruining families in the both the US and in Nigeria. Geoff took a trip to Nigeria to create a movie based on the fraudulent Nigerian emails.

Regarding Geoff Browne

For more than twenty years, Geoff's Browne's career has spanned global themes, ranging from making films in the steaming jungles of Nigeria and Belize to making films in Tibet, India and Malaysia. He has actually lived in a cave in a remote region. He has also spent lengthy days shooting in the scorching hot deserts of Iran and Saudi Arabia. One of his films is "Call it Karma." For this award winning movie, he traveled alone into desolate areas of Tibet, where he and stayed in a remote community with wanderers and Buddhist monks.

His most recent work was producing "Beyond Justice." It is a film with Misha Barton, Danny Trejo, Vinnie Jones and Luke Goss. Additionally, he was a cinematographer on the National Geographic collection called "Drugs Inc." Browne 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 Letter" A Film On The Nigerian Scams

Geoff Browne's film 'The Letter,' will uncover exactly how scams work and why they are the second greatest source of earnings for Nigeria after oil. The country grosses over $300 million a year from it and some scammers have actually personally made millions of dollars. The scams are done by individuals and groups, as well as mafia-like criminal networks. Targets are usually educated individuals, people who are likely to be taken in by the usage of official language linked with the correspondence of financial lenders, army men and government officials.

Geoff Browne has actually been to Nigeria twice, met fraudsters in the Niger Delta, and he has acquired a great understanding of the social and economic forces that create the fraudulent market and the government officials fighting to end it.




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