10 to 1 returns, let alone 100 to 1 returns or a bit of a ridiculous promise.

But also the workings of the investment are so like complex and baroque and involve lots

of like gaps in knowledge.

You can't really put the very straight like he is going here and then coming to me this

way.

If you like a good story about a scam then I think you're going to like today's show.

I'm Ricky Mulvey and that's you poke a yibo.

The author of Anancy's Gold, the man who looted the west outfoxed Washington and swindled

the world.

It centers around John Aka Blaneza, a scammer who raised hundreds of millions of dollars

by telling investors that hey he just needed some funds to unlock a bank vault with billions

of dollars worth of gold.

It was the inheritance of the country of Ghana to which he was the rightful heir.

You may be able to guess how this played out for investors.

He centers around this wily coyote type figure and reveals some of the timeless qualities

of a fraud.

And how investors biases can lead folks to walk into one.

I enjoyed the book and the conversation, I hope you do too.

So this is fundamentally a story about a swindler and how people got trapped into this web

of lies, a scam, but to set the table can you introduce us to our man?

Our man is Dr. John Aka Blaneza, although he was no doctor and that wasn't his real name.

And between the 70s and the 90s he built hundreds of people around the world of hundreds

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