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The true story of the fake US Embassy in Ghana. Last year, the US State Department said it had

uncovered a fake embassy in a cra that had been issuing a stream of forged feasers. The story went viral,

but all was not as it seemed by Apoko Yibal, read by Jennifer Sying and produced by Esther Apokugeni.

On Friday 2nd December 2016, a curious story appeared on the website garnerbusinessnews.com.

Garner security authorities shut down fake US Embassy in a cra the headline declared.

For a decade, the story went, there had been a fake US Embassy in the Ghanaian capital.

The fraudsters behind it had flown the American flag from their building and even hung a portrait

of Barack Obama on the wall. The criminal network behind the scam had advertised on billboards

and prowled the most remote villages of West Africa searching for gullible customers.

They brought them to a cra and sold them visas for as much as $6,000, $4,495.

The story was an immediate hit. In less than an hour we were getting 20,000 views on the website

for that story alone. A manual dog bevy, the website's managing editor told me.

Two days later, the news agency Reuters picked up the story and it swiftly became an international

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