SCAM IN AFRICA(GHANA)
One of the most recent spots in the world right now for scams is Africa and specifically Ghana. The online web is full of "offers" from African cities and other countries; just make sure your e-mail Inbox is clean and secure. Ghana is a hot-bed for dating scams and huge money scams involving gold and diamonds. What I have initiated through my investigations is that in the U.S. there are several instances where a middle man becomes the victim to the scammer. These scammers are intellectual and are very familiar with their game. They often have multiple scams going around at the same time; it is how they run their business.
Several documents on internet fraud, dating scam, inheritance scam and other types of scam existing in Ghana are listed.
#Nigerian-Ghana-Emergency-Scam;
The type of scam is most noted since many decades in online dating. The majority of scammers who involve in this process have Nigeria and Ghana as their native hence it is specially noted as Ghana scams and Ghana scammers.
#Plane-Ticket-&-Visa-Scam;
Plane ticket and visa scam is another common type of scam that occurs in dating scam. Fraudsters lure you to meet and in return ask the victims to deposit money in the bank account so that they can come to meet. But once the victims deposit the money the fraudsters disappear leaving no clue for the victim to realize how to get back the lost money from them.
#Medical-Emergency-Scam;
Medical Emergency scam is carried out usually on online dating websites. The scammer first tries to develop a good bond with the target and tries to know the user personally. After a certain period of dating, the scammer uses sympathy as a weapon and asks for money as a medical emergency and promises to pay back the user. Once the money is received, there is no trace of the scammer.
#Nigerian-419-Scam;
The Nigerian 419 Scam exists round the world over a very long time and is known as the advance fee fraud. It is also popularly referred as Nigerian money offer, the Spanish prisoner etc.
#Fake-Police-Scam;
Fake police scam is vicious among other frauds in Ghana. The first thing most scam victims do is they contact police in the hope that they can regain their lost belongings by catching the person who duped them.
#Cashing-Money-Order-Scam;
Fake police scam is vicious among other frauds in Ghana. The first thing most scam victims do is they contact police in the hope that they can regain their lost belongings by catching the person who duped them.
#Lottery-Scams;
Lottery scam is one the popular Ghana scams hits top in making huge community fall as victims. The type of scam spreads round exponentially such that one in three people will come across those fake lottery claims.
#Phony-Inheritance-Scam;
This type of scam is so diplomatic; scammers armed with fake identities revolve around you acquiring inheritance that you have no previous knowledge of. The motive of these Ghana Scammers is to pull out money as much as they can from the innocent people.
#Disaster-Relief-Scam;
In times of disaster like tsunami, tornado, or an earthquake, people do help others with funds in saving their livelihood. Scammers on taking advantage of those crises they tend set up scam charity institutions to loot money from people who want help the victims.
#Business-Investment-Scam;
Business investment scam is the popular one among Ghana frauds where the scammer guarantees providing huge benefits in attracting their potential victims. People often look to invest their hard earned money in an investment option that fetches them large returns.
#Ghana-Romance-Scam;
Scammers try out various illegal actions in targeting the potential victims making them initially build trust that probably will end up in claiming huge sum from those victims.
