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Ghana Scams

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. Hundreds of thousands of victims every year have trusted they could rely on their own judgement to tell if the person they have been communicating with is a scammer or not.

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When the Internet became widely available in Ghana in the early s and Ghanaians finally went online en masse, they bumped up against firmly established rules of Internet conduct. Today, it is a booming underground industry. However, investigators warn that and other email spam is becoming a thing of the past. Ghana scams have become far more sophisticated and complex. If you receive an email from anyone in Ghana, be on guard, and do not share your bank account details or other personal information for any reason. In most cases, these scam attempts are easy to detect. A Ghana criminal conducting internet fraud today may never even mention Ghana, until the damage is done.

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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.

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Meet the scammers: Could this be your online lover?

As a teenager, Kasim was the star striker of his school's football team in Ghana, earning him the moniker Starflex. But the year-old has since abandoned both his studies and football for a vocation that keeps him up at night: finding and luring victims into online romance scams. To bait a suitor, they comb Facebook and Instagram, swiping photos of influencers, actresses and adult film actors to create fake accounts on dating sites. Starflex and his sidekicks are known as the Sakawa boys — meaning 'putting inside' in the Hausa language, a young generation of school drops-outs in Ghana who dabble in identity theft and romance scams on social media. Their activities can be traced to the Yahoo boys, or fraudsters in Nigeria.

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