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Dating Scammer Ghana

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. He poses as a US soldier called 'Johnny', an online persona built on stolen photos, fake ID and stock scripts with storylines about urgent emergencies that can be solved with cash.

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A single cookie will be used in your browser to remember your preference not to be tracked. View Cart Checkout. Bonsu, Kwasi A. Oppong, Kwame Ansah, John Y. According to the indictment, the accused exhibited fraudulent intent when they created several profiles on online dating sites. Scam are believed to have defrauded at least 26 victims who have been identified thus far.

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Bukola Adebayo. Staflex pictured by his laptop in Accra, Ghana on June 14, Poverty and unemployment are driving Ghana's youth into the dark underbelly of identity theft and romance scams. 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. In one bedroom in Accra, Starflex and his two friends Suleiman, 19, and Patrick, 18, huddle over their phones and laptops, exchanging intimate messages with "pals", their code name for potential victims they meet on dating sites. 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.

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Sakawa Boys: Meet Ghana's online romance scammers

Dating websites are very popular however Ghana scams are increasing due to the anonymity of the site allowing criminals in Ghana to take advantage of unsuspecting singles by forging fraudulent relationships and attempting to get money out of them. The majority of people who start an online relationship with a Ghanaian originally think they are corresponding with someone in the United States. You will meet Ghanaians on all of the major dating websites and many of the more specialized chat rooms. Only after a relationship is formed does the correspondent advise that they are from Ghana. Relationships can last anywhere from months before the Ghanaian correspondents will ask you for money.

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