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FEATURE-Sakawa Boys: Meet Ghana's online romance scammers

Internet fraud and online scams is big business in Ghana. This is the epicenter. Online scamming has been a way of life for so long in the African country, that most information you will find when searching the web for Ghana is information related to romance fraud, gold scams, and similar ways to be a victim. The reputation for being one of the hottest spots for fraud is well-deserved. Local private investigators in Accra say the cases of fraud were decreasing before the pandemic, but the health crisis fueled by the mainstream media has triggered the resurgence of scams in the capital and beyond. The worst part of the problem is not that the scammers are geographically extending to other areas, but that they are increasing in number and acquiring new and improved techniques.

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Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. Mona Faiz Montrage, 30, of Accra, Ghana, appeared in Manhattan federal court Monday for her alleged involvement in a series of romance schemes targeting older people who lived alone, prosecutors said. Montrage — who had around 3. The scammers would then get the victims to transfer money to them under false pretenses — such as to help move gold to the US from overseas, to resolve bogus FBI investigations, and payments to help fake US Army officers in Afghanistan, court papers allege.

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Meet the scammers: Could this be your online lover? These are the foot soldiers in a global scamming enterprise that's breaking hearts and stealing billions of dollars. In a tiny flat in Ghana, in west Africa, an aspiring entrepreneur trawls Facebook for divorced and widowed women on the other side of the world. The year-old, who calls himself Kweiku, is searching for 'clients' — scammer parlance for victims who can be conned online into sending money. Kweiku sells perfume on the streets of Ghana's capital, Accra, to maintain a meagre income between Western Union transfers from a woman he seduces online.

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Details of di sentencing of Ghana popular social media influencer Mona Montrage by US court

The scam works because some tourists do come Accra to pay money for sex, and because some of these folks stay at nice hotels. I was thinking about this story because Global Voices ran a fantastic piece on a disturbing new phenomenon happening online in Ghana and Kenya — gay personal ads designed to recruit robbery and kidnapping victims. A website for gay and lesbian traveller to Ghana, quoted in the story, explains that this has become a lucrative business for internet scammers:. On the Internet, anybody can be anything, so you really do not know who you are chatting with. Some scams focus on building online relationships, then asking for money for help in an emergency.

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