So I sent all facts into the political system, we apointed some of the people that can do things will call me back regularily, and I anihilated their names and numbers for more SECURITY - I won´t even reach them like that !

Fraud in Ghana

Oh they are very nice and say you´ll get some million dollars for free, from a guy that by bad luck was killed in an air crash. Only if you are interested they will tell you first that you will have to pay 1.000 Euro for a "proof that the money is really yours" and later that you´ll have to pay 14.000 $ handling fees to get your part of the "deposit" - a heavy box that seems to be full of dollar-notes. How nice the guy you´re mainly in contact with knows a lawyer that will help - he will swear an affedavit and you will be shown it.

What a bad luck - just before you put your hands on the money and can bring it to a bank some people in uniforms will rush in (later you will be told they are the "Ghanean CIA") and claim you have to proove them where the money is from. So its them who´ll take the box hopefully full of 100-dollar notes.

And good luck again - one of these guys will meet you later and say he´s been talking with his bosses: You can have the money - if you pay 106.000 Euro more.

Oh it´s a good show for sure - just a little expensive. Why I participated in a game like this for a while? Surely because my brain got heavily damaged when I was allmost killed by political violence. Even more here (in German), or very short in English language.

A dangerous game - dangerous for the Ghaneans that play it. Sometimes they have to lift their masks. At least to let me phone and mail them. And if one of these guys is known it is easy to get all of the others too. Well they had to show some of their telefone numbers and email adresses - and surely will be found even if later they change them.

 I just don´t beleave they have so big a political backing that they can afford that their game gets known to the police - not if a European state gets involved. And if you´ve once looked here you know it will be like that - oh I´ve been working together with German ministers and secretaries of state and a German chancelor shook my hand. If they had so big a political backing they would take no risk like that but for much more money - and I´ve seen they can get quite nervous.

< me maybee 1990, before beeing allmost killed

So lets begin with 2 documents that could help to identify some of the players. Lets begin with a passport possibly of the guy that contacted me first and most - at least the picture looks right:

Ain´t that quite interesting? "Barrister Anthony Mensah" had the functioning email adresses and telefone numbers barrtony@rediffmail.com, barrtony1@yahoo.com and 00233 24 89 13 96 (just in case he mailed me sombody elses passport, then its real owner should know the "barrister"). Today his beard is gone. And he began trying to cheat me like that:

Dear friend,
My name is Barrister Anthony Mensah, 41 years Ghanaian married with Five Children. (Nothing about them in the passport.) I work as an administrative Secretary/Attorney with GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY (ltd) Accra Ghana. I joined the services of this company in 1991.
I got the information concerning you and your company from our Chamber of Commerce here and after due consultation, I decided to contact you believing that by the grace of God that you will be my partner in this business. ... (shortened)

I watched with meticulous precision on how African Head of State and government functionaries have been moving huge sums of money ... These people have at one time or the other deposited consignments with us and their foreign partners, relatives and Next of Kin are Claiming most of these consignment and a lot more are laying here unclaimed for as much as 7 years, as no available information to anybody except the depositors, and most of them are dead. ... Now he tells how with your help he wants to take some of the millions of Dollars (complete here):

The procedure is very simple: - Apply officially to the Director of operation Global security company pty Accra - Ghana, for the release of consignment No. GSS/15031964.
They will demand for some documents and the security code of the consignment, you will call on me to supply you with every detailed Information as regard the
consignment.
As soon as they have confirmed it to be correct, the company will invite you for the collection. (No word about money to pay!)
Nobody will ever know that I am involved in the deal, I suggest upon conclusion, we share it on the Ratio of 50%-40% and 10% will go for humanitarian service ie
motherless babies home, more also you will make an arrangement on investments that I will invest my money in your country.
I assure you that this business is very secure and risk free.
Please, if you are not interested on this proposal, kindly let me know.
Thanks
Barrister Anthony Mensah

And there´s more traces:

So here we have Barrister Okechukwu Osoigwe that swore a wrong oath - there´s some people who won´t like that at all! And how quickly he lied when the people from the "Ghanean CIA" came in. And even if most I know about him is untrue and he dosn´t work at Plot 46, Madina Estate, Accra / Ghana Plot 46, I surely was able to reach him at 00234 24 884513 and - here I´m not that sure - as well at osuigwe_chambers@yahoo.com.

And I was in contact with a firm that was told to me to be Global Security (GH) LTD, 14 Industrial Way, Off Tetekwashie Roundabout in Accra / Ghana , and its Operations Director Edward Kwame. For this I used +233-20-81 68 349, and the mails glosecurity@post.cz & glosecghcom@yahoo.com. Thats surely something. This was the enterprise that wanted me to pay 14.000 Euro for getting the deposit they had stored.

 

 But when I later tried to send a letter to Mr. Mensah at Global Security, ups tried in vain to get it there on 20. 1. ´04.

What an unlucky incident! If that doesn´t show who´s part of the game too... oh the police will ask him many questions!

Of cause Mr. Mensah had given me the same adress first. So they boath don´t even know where they work? They might soon get time enough to think about that in jail. And if they wouldn´t have better...

And who had told the "Ganaen CIA" to rush in just when this big box apparently full of money had been opened with a saw after the show had begun with a long delay? One of the "officers"? told me he was Joseph Appiah, National Security, 00233-24-21 37 61.

Very, very astonishing when you know originally it was appointed I should come 10.00 on 22. 12 ´03. Now 3 more weeks had passed and this day the meeting had been delayed by hours when J. Appiah and the lady rushed in just as to keep an appointment - ´cause that is what they did. As all the others that were there...

One thing must be clear:

Even if there´s lots of lies that have been told I know enough clues to make these guys pray they would never have begun to try to fool me. And if some of you doubt that is true they should first look at more here (in German), specially it subdomains under "Wahrheit" (truth).

Oh yeah, I still have some friends, you know, and I still know how to be successfull! So don´t you be careless because of my shattered brain you´ve been exploiting - ´cause I woke up! And don´t you think you can threaten me, cause I´ve been talking with some of my friends.

So hurry up and send 16.000 Euro to Andreas Gruner, Küdinghovener Str., 53225 Bonn, Germany by Western Union in Bonn - Beuel because by now I still might be able to stop the police!

So don´t be foolish no more!

Or you love the police? They won´t be half as nice as me. And they knowyour game:

Because (from http://its.med.yale.edu/security/AdvanceFeeFraudSchemes.html): This is an old and well known scam. Originally, it was done via postal (snail) mail, but has moved to the Internet over the past 3 (now five) years. The US Secret Service and Treasury Department have published an advisory and instructions. In brief:
If you have already lost funds in pursuit of the above described scheme, please contact the U.S. Secret Service in Washington, D.C. at 202-406-5850 or by e-mail. (Or of cause your own national police.)
If you have received a letter, but have not lost any monies to this scheme, please fax a copy of that letter to (202) 406-5031 (in the USA).

Do not try to reply to the senders yourself. Replying only confirms a working address, and could expose you to dangerous people.
If you contact the Government, send them samples with full headers, and a brief cover letter including contact information.
Generally, unless you have made contact with the sender or lost money, there will be no acknowledgement, but your information is helpful and is reviewed.
If you are not sure what to do contact medabuse@yale.edu for assistance. So send me my 16.000 today!

Probably I began to work on this site 2004; originally to impress Mr. Mensah and get back my money. At that time I still was too confused to really do any more. I knew I had no reason to be proud of what I did. I was ill, so ill! Still I´m not too well off... so many years!