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Some guys never learn, Fran, even how much they seems to be exposed for exploition, : I have deeply involved with 2 women, bothly living in Accra, and the first, at least so far causing me substancially losses, also asked questions about before: Story 1

Have now ended up in a locked and pressured situation, after she has pretendly ended up behind bars for having brought with her undeclared gold bars in luggage! This goldbar should be a gift her mother wanted to grant me after having been supportive to their pretended needs, regarding roof leak. medication, hospital visits, even cell phone, all in a relatively small period! And she all the time yielded to meet me in person in far-distant Norway! And reason for (the first part of) the journey: A social security check of 40000 euro, deposited by her long deceased Spanish father and added much interet in order to secure his daughter financially for rest of her life: In order to be able to cash this checque out, she had to make a journey from Accra, because of formalities and document signing, and she asked me a lot of my possibilities contributing to it, the journey itself and the fees and time penalty to travel agent for arranging the journey, as nobody else possibly could afford it! And after I had done the transferrings covering for that and even more demanding inquiry: 2000 $ in required travel money, much hesitating and postponed delay, and stripping of accounts and extending of credit as conscequence. She also promised to keep me posted along the way with cell phone. Shall have left Accra late Saturday 4th August. No reply to series of messages, no woman to see that day here.! And besides, I never got exact arrival time for this part of the journey, only date 6th August ! And also contacted her travel agents e-mail, earlier given to confirm the womans credibility, and late evening the shock message finally arrived:In custody, that was 8 days ago, and in jail, badly treatment, and a demand of 5000 cedi to release her and the gold bar! Have also been introduced for her fathers lawyer, also make strong request of me today to make transferrings, leveling up the total to at least until half of value, (2500 cedi)He also made attempts persuading me to pay for some of my own bill payments in return later. Gave in for her travel agent and transferred my last 1000 cedi Saturday 11th and now the situation is blocked! An And this my transition to story 2
The one I really have heart-bounded with from early June,and actually in a way dethroned her in story 1 now actually shall have intervened in this financially misery, after founding out of my involvement about a week ago! In all my transactions I have used Western Union, with considerably fee, that also have office in my hometown! And also have been approved as Visual-Id status, which is necessary after 2 transferrings! She now, at least says , she works with the Western personell in order to restore mostly of my earlier transferring! And also the reason I feel I can send no more transferrings that way! But had to send 2 transferrings, one of them before, and one after the one I mentioned 1000 cedis I mentioned above! And got the message about a lowst possible amount of aboutn 700 cedi! Which actually sounds suspiciously enough!
But she has also presented me for this incredible scenario: She is an American,and shall have worked with gold mining project earlier , now she has been involved with a sort of self development project, she has psychology background. But shall have gained so much money of the gold mining that she decided to do this: Put the benefit and laid it down to a really heavy trunk with 100dollar bills worth 12,3 mill dollar, and having it shipped with a fast vessel from Ghana to Norway! To have me take hand of it, assisted with security personnel With those money she assured me our financial future was secured.
This 30 year women has all the way seems to heartbond with me tight and have had some really inspirationally messages and chats!
At least 3 catches has occurred here: With (pretended) departure from Accra suddenly a socalled stamp was required by the shipping counsil, and guess who had to pay 3300 cedi! And an even much bigger upset when pretendedly arrived my hometown! 10000 cedi to pay to release the trunk, apparently a demand from Norwegian harbour management to have from the Ghana ,and a totally surprise from my heart-bonded! I also have had financially contact with another Ghana woman, a devoted Christian and stongly involved in charity fundraising, and have also contributed 4 times in this! Actually it was her introducing me for my heart-bound as my perfect partner (and earlier promised me abundances of wealth and success), actually suddenly appeared on my Yahoo-account the same day this shock-payment was presented! What a veritable mess I might have involved myself in here!
None of the 10000 cedi at least was not transferred, as it already was way outside

Submitted: 10 months ago.
Category: Fraud Examiner
Expert:  FranL replied 10 months ago.

Hello,

I am sorry to hear about this, but as you can see, these scenarios are not real.

What you have to do is to keep reminding yourself that Ghana + money request = scam. Each and every time. I don't care whether they say they are devout Christians or not. If they are asking for money they are lying to you.

Scammers reach out to people far away so they can fool them into paying for requirements that don't really exist, to con them into thinking they are paying for air fare, travel allowances, passports and visas, legal fees. None of this turns out to be real.

You can do yourself a favor by avoiding internet women from Ghana and Nigeria. Women may seem more exotic from strange lands, but at home if you meet someone you will know she's real and won't have to pay more than the price of a dinner date to find out.

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