Ghana is the SCAM Capital

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A World of Scam

If China is acepted as the capital of cybercime, Ghana is the capital of the SCAM.

The most known is the Lagos Scam. In this case, someone will message you saying "Send me £1,000, and next month I will send you £7,000." It sounds too good to be true, and as Rule 101 quotes, "If something sounds too god to be true, it usually is."

I was contacted via Twitter, last week, by a young lady from Portland, Oregon, that raised no alarms as I get contacted by people in the USA often. However, when we changed to WhatsApp, things changed rapidily.

It turned out she was staying in Ghana with her father, RED FLAG.

Her opening comments raised so many more danger signs it was hard not to see the SCAM coming. Her opening question was did I own a house, followed by did I own a car, both questions designed to find out if I was rich. She followed by a repeated request that she would like to meet me, I took this to mean she wanted me to pay her for a trip to the UK.

While this is easy to think as ridiculous, I have had worse