The swoop on crime-funded luxury in Ghana by the FBI has thrown a spotlight on illicit financial flows and revived calls for ...

Fraudsters in Ghana are deliberately targeting British women in online scams as retribution for colonialism, a report has ...

Four Ghanian nationals have been charged with stealing more than $100 million by perpetrating romance scams and business ...

Ghanaian nationals have been extradited to the US for allegedly running an international fraud that resulted in the theft of ...

Online romance fraud has become a global phenomenon. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the US, romance scams accounted for losses to about 24,000 Americans, exceeding US$1 ...

Four Ghanaians were extradited to the U.S. for allegedly running romance and email scams, stealing over $100 million.

In Nigeria, scammers who specialize in Romance Scams and BEC are called "Yahoo Boys."  In Ghana, the term for the same activity is "Sakawa."  Several Ghanaian headlines are talking about this case ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS12) — A Tallahassee Couple and a Ghanaian man were sentenced to prison for a romance scam that victimized the elderly. According to court documents from the U.S. Department ...

Coverage of romance scams often centres on victim narratives or sensational headlines, leaving offender-focused research largely unexplored. On the African continent, Nigeria and Ghana have ...

Online romance fraud has become a global phenomenon. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the US, romance scams accounted for losses to about 24,000 Americans, exceeding US$1 ...

Profile of an online fraudster The analysis of the case files of the 50 convicted romance scammers showed patterns in offender profiles and strategies. Most were young - 81.7% were under 26.