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Anansi’s Gold : Forget the Tinder Swindler, Anna Delvey, and Billy McFarland. Despite the fact that these famous con artists all got their own TV shows, they’re all amateurs when compared with John Ackah Blay-Miezah. The man conned high-level officials and executives for years while he enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle. By using a set of dishonorable interpersonal skills and the uncertain political climate that pervaded post-independence Ghana. Specifically, he claimed to have access to the country’s fabled vaults which were filled with gold, and mns in USD — but in order to retrieve the goods, he needed investors’ support. Shockingly, his ruse worked wonders with money-grubbing businesspeople who thought the opportunity was too good to pass up. This book recounts a fascinating cautionary tale pointing to the fact that when things seem too good to be true, they generally tend to be so. A lesson that scores of people learned the hard way from Blay-Miezah’s, or the modern-day Anansi: The god of trickery in Ghanaian mythology.

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