Ghana Scams

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 we have initiated through our 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. There are about 25 Government-based and Educational sites that report cases on different scams occurring in Ghana.

Ghana scams, also known as "419 scams" or "advance-fee fraud," involve deceptive practices where scammers based in Ghana or claiming to be from Ghana, engage individuals or entities in fraudulent schemes. These scams often take various forms, including romance scams, lottery or inheritance scams, and business investment opportunities. In romance scams, perpetrators create fake online personas, establishing romantic relationships with victims before concocting elaborate stories to request money. Lottery or inheritance scams falsely promise large sums of money, requiring victims to pay upfront fees or provide personal information to claim their supposed winnings. Business scams may offer lucrative investment opportunities, only to vanish once funds are transferred. To protect against Ghana scams, individuals should exercise caution with online relationships, never send money to unknown parties, verify the legitimacy of any financial opportunity, and be skeptical of unsolicited offers that seem too good to be true.

• 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.

Although, most African singles looking for a date online are legitimate, it cannot be denied that numerous online dating scams originate in African nations such as Nigeria, Ghana or Ivory Coast suitable to the low per capital income, high rates of unemployment, high rates of corruption and hopeless policing in these areas. The money extracted from victims in North America, Europe and Australia translates to enormous fortunes for the scammers who are eager to put weeks or months of work into getting a fine payout. Both men and women are targeted. Many scammers are fairly educated and are merciless, so to protect you from these scammers we are providing the Spam Checker Tool for your convenience.

Here you can enter the email or the contact number that you suspect to be a scam. This tool checks it with our spam database list and ensures you whether the email or the phone number is a real or bogus one.

Another type of scam that is trending in the list of Ghana scam is the "job scam". In the Ghana job scam, fraudsters approach the victims offering a job that perfectly suits their profile. The victims are asked to send their resumes along with their bank information. Urgent Job seekers often fall prey to these kinds of job offers and end up losing their personal financial information. Most of the job offers are from petroleum and oil gas companies that insist you to pay an advance fee for some legitimate reason.

Example:

Scammers from Ghana are very proficient in online classifieds scam. This has become another common medium to persuade users to click on a link and influence them to enter information about themselves. Online classifieds are alert messages sent through various mediums about a product, service or an offer with a URL. Out of curiosity, users tend to click on the link and enter information about them. Scammers use this information to steal bank details, passwords and identity.

Ghana scammers adopt a wise and different technique in order to obtain the victims bank details. They claim to be lawyers overseas, and send you emails stating that a person sharing your family name has died and has left behind lump sum money which will be going to the government if no nominees or relatives are found. These scammers emphasize the need for urgency, leaving no time for verification. Victims are asked to submit their bank details and in some cases are also asked to pay a fee for successful completion of the transfer process. Many in world who are unknown to such scams fall prey to it.


Example:

Phishing is a technique employed by spammers and hackers to gather web user's personal information to steal their identities and then their money or benefits.

What is different about Ghana phishing scam?

Phishing emails that are suspected to be from Ghana are mainly mails of ecommerce websites that send away phishing emails to vast number of users. These emails request you to confirm your email address and verify your bank account information. The ultimate motive is to acquire user's personal information via website that appears to be legitimate to the user. Scammers from Ghana use all types of phishing techniques in order to make a scam operation successful.
Example:

On 22nd June 2015, Ghana police reported Ghana job scam that offered fake recruitment letters to 500 young men and women. The Ghana police arrested three men involved in Ghana recruitment scam and are spreading awareness about Ghana recruitment job scam.

Christopher Williams, romance scammer from Ghana was arrested for having scammed two women of 300000 Euros. He manipulated both the victims into believing that he genuinely wanted to marry them and move to UK. The victims lost all their life savings and also ended up in taking loans, believing the fraudster.

Report scam to United States government-you could file a complaint about scam or other crime here.