In tonight’s CBS News segment called “Eye On America,” I learned about a new twist in online romance scams. The scammers in Ghana are hiring live women for in-person meetings with the male victim! This takes the scam to a whole new level. In the story CBS covered, the American male met the female con artist in Ghana. She was from Australia. The Ghanaian man running the scam was their taxi driver. The male victim invested $700,000 in a non-existent gold mine.
@paxterrarum what a tragedy and alarming for the rest of us. these scams are a part of the multi-billion dollar businesses with deep trans national criminal oversight