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How mobsters ran a fake US embassy in Ghana for over 10 years

State DepartmentForget stealing credit card information and making fake ID’s. One group of identity fraudsters faked an entire U.S. embassy — for a decade. Over the weekend, the U.S. Department of State announced it had shut down a fake embassy in Ghana this summer with the help of local authorities. Turkish and Ghanaian organized crime gangs ran the scam with the help of a Ghanaian attorney, according to the State Department. The criminals weren’t just in it for the adrenaline rush of processing consular paperwork, though.

 

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