Romance scam

[Bobby2810143]

Am a victim of romance scam originating from Ghana

I was taken out of over 100K by a Ghanaian but my reports to the Embassy directed my complain to the Ghana Crime Unit; info.ghanapolice at consultant . com and luckily the perpetrators was brought to justice it happened in 2021 after the demise of my wife I sign up on a love site,it started as acquaintance and she acted very caring so I develop interest in her and we exchange numbers and were talking off the dating sites and she informed me that it was a few days to her birthday and she always celebrate with the orphans in Africa and she was visiting Ghana and she informed me that the caretaker of the orphanage is pleased with her donations and gifted her gold nuggets which she was sending home but on boarding the flight she was arrested for unlicensed gold and I had to pay bills after bills for legal paperwork's which I ran out of funds and informed the US Embassy and was shocked it was a male in her late 20's that was scamming me- Do not Send Money to any1 online.!

 

[mdchachi]

How did you find it out who it was? Did they catch him?

 

[Bobby2810143]

The picture attached in my post is the girl she used which was not her as after the arrest he was a man am talking too that scam me and justice was served!

 

[Achilles 1-1]

The picture attached in my post is the girl she used which was not her as after the arrest he was a man am talking too that scam me and justice was served!

Uh, what? I understood none of that. The girl she used whic was not her? I thought you said it was a man. Could you clean up your English if you can?

 

[mdchachi]

Uh, what? I understood none of that. The girl she used whic was not her? I thought you said it was a man. Could you clean up your English if you can?

The man scamming him used that girl's picture. That's all.

It was lucky he was caught. Probably 99% of these criminals aren't caught.

 

[Achilles 1-1]

The man scamming him used that girl's picture. That's all.

It was lucky he was caught. Probably 99% of these criminals aren't caught.

Oooh that explains it.

 

[nice gaijin]

Sadly, this is an increasingly common scam that preys on loneliness and seeking human connection. We had another member asking after a person they thought was real, and we had to break it to them that he had been catfished in the worst way. I had just seen a video report on this from John Oliver and I posted it in that thread.

@Bobby2810143 I'm sorry that you were scammed, and it is surprising that they actually caught them! You are in good company.

 

[thomas]

True for Japan, too:

Romance scams on the rise in Japan

And this was reported happening in Gunma last week:

Man in east Japan duped out of about 100 mil. yen in online romance scam - The Mainichi

MAEBASHI -- A 64-year-old man in this east Japan city was deceived out of about 97.8 million yen (around $655,000) through a romance scam, the local p

mainichi.jp