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The filing system: how a spreadsheet revealed the real target

The filing system: how a spreadsheet revealed the real target

Eleven pages of wire-transfer receipts, rubber-banded and organized in a rusted mailbox on an empty road, told a story no one expected: the fraud was scheduled. Lisa Zeller had spent nineteen months sending money to a man named Jeffrey Fisher, a structural engineer she believed existed. But when investigators recovered a backup drive in Accra, they found a spreadsheet with column headers for dates and row headers for initials-twenty-three planned crises timed to her paycheck, not her heart.

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