These are the basic feet soldiers in a major international scamming business which is breaking minds and stealing vast amounts of money.
In a small level in Ghana, in western Africa, an ambitious entrepreneur trawls Facebook for divorced and widowed people on the other side on the planet.
The 27-year-old, who calls on his own Kweiku, are seeking ‘clients’ — scammer parlance for subjects who are able to feel fooled using the internet into sending dollars.
For Kweiku, relationship tricks is a transaction, definitely not a crime.
“litigant is actually someone, a company lover which produces a person income, for this reason you use the term customer,” they advised Four Corners.
“the majority are divorced and a few — his or her husbands at the moment are useless.”
Kweiku carries scent regarding roads of Ghana’s funds, Accra, to sustain a meager earnings between Western device moves from a woman the guy seduces using the internet.
The man poses as an US trooper also known as ‘Johnny’, an online image constructed on taken photograph, phony ID and regular programs with storylines about urgent issues that may be remedied with wealth. Continue reading “Meet up with the con artists: Could this become your on-line fan?”