The Laminated Move: How a Chessboard Became a $61,000 Romance Trap
The Laminated Move: How a Chessboard Became a $61,000 Romance Trap
Grief, trust and a chess move combined to turn careful accounting into a $61,000 transfer that flowed through a prepaid card network in Accra, Ghana - and the man Wayne believed he was helping had been dead for two years. How did a retired civil engineer who kept handwritten ledgers and double-checked spreadsheets end up wiring six-figure sums to a stranger he met over 31 moves?
In this episode, we trace the timeline from a laminated note tucked under the white king to the nine-week series of transfers, and follow the online…
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