Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Barrister David Brown (2007)
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from DAVID BROWN & CO. davidbrown406@live.com
reply-to davidbrown406@hotmail.com,
date Dec 19, 2007 11:41 AM
subject TRUST REQUIRED
DAVID BROWN & CO.
(Legal Practitioners/Notary Public)
Minerva House Third Floor
London, SE1 9DH
United Kingdom
This letter might come to you as a surprise but it is coming with the best of intentions and will be of mutual benefit to all the parties involved.
I am BARRISTER DAVID BROWN a Lawyer to the former LIBERIAN PRESIDENT CHARLES TAYLOR hereafter referred to as my client I am writing to solicit your assistance to secure funds that are already in EUROPE with a security company. The fund in question is a total of $50,000,000 (Fifty Million United States Dollars) in $100 bills and stashed in four trunk boxes and was shipped out of Liberia through a diplomatic means by a security company and they are not aware of the real content of the boxes for security reasons.
The boxes are already in EUROPE and under the custody of a security company. For your assistance in getting the boxes out from the security company and securing the funds, we will give you 20%of the total fund. NOTE: There is no risk involved in this project because I am involved as my Client’s confidant. Therefore contact me onmy email: davidbrown406@hotmail.com for further directives. Please you should keep this transaction a top secret as we are prepared to do more business with you pending your approach towards this project. I await your urgent response.
Best Regards,
BARR.DAVID BROWN.
