Sidi,

There are people who send emails all over the internet with similar stories,
they need money to pay shipping, or a security company fee in order to
release a box with millions in currency in it. The amazing thing is that
someone actually gave this guy the money instead of asking him why he needed
to borrow money if he had all those funds in the box.
Most of these requests come from Africans and that is very unfortunate.
You are right though, our country seems ot be making a name for itself as the
source of fake dollars and i cannot imagine anything worse.

Jabou



In a message dated 1/29/03 10:12:04 AM Central Standard Time,
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> Mr. Kletus Yaya, a Gambian?  Anyway, it is one story too many involving
> Gambia and fake dollars.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Accra Mail (Accra)
>
> January 29, 2003
> Posted to the web January 28, 2003
>
> Isaac Essel
> Accra
>
> An Accra regional circuit tribunal on Monday remanded Mr. Kletus Yaya, a
> Gambian national, in custody for possessing one million forged United
> States
> dollars. Yaya has pleaded not guilty and is to re-appear on February 3.
>
> The Prosecutor, Chief Superintendent Joseph Kofi Adu, told the court that,
> Yaya arrived in the country on January 6, 2003.
>
> He said seven days after his arrival, Yaya met Mr. Emmanuel Agyemang (the
> complainant), a businessman at Achimota and in the course of their
> conversation he told Agyemang that he had a box containing one million US
> dollars with Kofi, a customs officer and needed money to clear the box.
>
> The prosecution said on January 18, Agyemang and Yaya met Kofi and gave him
> an amount of 1.2 million cedis after which he released the box to them, and
> Agyemang kept the box in his room.
>
> Two days later, Agyemang took 500 dollars out to change but was told that
> the money was fake ones.
>
> He subsequently reported Yaya to the police. Investigations proved that all
> the money was fake and Yaya was arraigned before court.
>
>
>
>

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