Let’s start with the not-so-new, but with a slightly different twist. The Nigerian widow is now a pair of orphans in Ghana. Oddly enough, the 21-year-old needs a guardian to access his late father’s financial accounts at some non-specific “finance company.” Apparently, 18 year olds are “small” and 21 year olds, while old enough to vote, are not old enough to inherit? Let’s note, also, that Ghana is sufficiently linked to the Nigerian scams to have an entry on the subject on its national stats page on Wikipedia. (Interestingly enough, the header info referenced a Hong Kong email address.)

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