At a shrine regarding the borders of Accra, businesswoman and celebrity fetish priestess Nana Agradaa casts spells on her clients to assist them to generate income.
Nana Agradaa takes 100 cedis ($26) a session from cafe males to produce them the charged capacity to manipulate their victims.
We view as Nana Agraada invokes her spirits right in front of a idol that is wooden covered in pictures of westerners which were taken to her by cafe males.
She chants, spits schnapps and pours talcum powder on her behalf idols, as she shows certainly one of her many popular incantations with an associate.
“He brought some white individuals to me personally,” she stated.
“The child desires them to deliver him some quantity they have not paid the money because he has been asking for money but.
“therefore i give him some detergent to go and employ, then when he is deploying it to shower, he can state anything for him. he desires the white woman or even the white guy to accomplish”
Superstition operates deep in Ghana and several think scammers depend on juju, or miracle.
“we hear that there surely is some powers that are spiritual they use,” stated Dr Yankson, through the Ghana Police.
“Sometimes i am lured to think so, my pal.”
2:09 Fetish Priestess Nana Agradaa casts a spell for a scammer’s western ‘client’
Cafe boys like Mohamed, Kweiku and Skidoo would be the bottom feeders in an enterprise that is global has spread from nearby Nigeria.
“those that have pleasure in this since the perpetrators — most of those are unemployed,” Abu Issah, acting mind of prosecutions at Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), told Four Corners.
“But these are typically really smart as it takes some one with an intellect to even sit down and fancy getting into this task also to hoodwink some body.”
The FBI reports crime that is formidable which originated from Nigeria have actually spread to significantly more than 80 nations and so are making vast amounts of bucks per year from frauds alone.
Relating to EOCO’s Abu Issah, the cafe men are set prey when it comes to international syndicates which took hold in Ghana.
“the guys that are big huge amount of money,” he stated.
“we now have Nigerian nationals along with other West African nationals who come here — and definitely they will have their Ghanaian collaborators — plus they share a few ideas, rendering it therefore sophisticated even to locate.
“the top fishes deliver the tiny guys on an errand to attempt initial activities for them so when they provide them the feedback regarding the target they have in touch with, they clamp straight down in it.
“so they really graduate through the boys that are little the major dudes in city.”
This is one way, in some instances, victims of romance frauds are exchanged among crooks to be utilized in much bigger crimes, including medication trafficking and cash laundering.
Exactly like in Ghana’s internet cafes, scammers gather online to trade abilities, knowledge and fake identities in an enormous black market operating on Twitter.
In public places Facebook groups, fraudsters share scripts, called “formats”, to perform their frauds.
You can find day-by-day platforms for each and every scam: on the list of hundreds discovered by Four Corners were army platforms, ill mom scripts, lotto platforms, homosexual intercourse talk formats, sugar daddy platforms and “trust and love” scripts.
Scammers advertise Facebook pages, taken pictures of armed forces workers and picture doctoring abilities for fabricating IDs and also medical emergencies.
In secret groups on Twitter’s instant texting solution, WhatsApp, we discovered scammers sharing great tips on mimicking US accents and feminine voices.
When you look at the WhatsApp teams, crooks promoted Australian bank records to launder cash and purchasers agreed to send presents to Australian relationship scam victims.
Scamming pays well and for Skidoo, it really is a bottom that is brutal: West African fraudsters are taking what exactly is owed in their mind.
“It could be somehow painful seeing somebody who is old sufficient to be your mom going right on through that nevertheless the main point here nevertheless continues to be, we have to survive,” he stated.
” The white hot latin brides individuals, they came down right right here to colonise us, took exactly what belongs to us.
“They delivered our grandfathers that are great-great, mistreated them, addressed them like slaves, they did lots of injury to them. They will have done us bad before therefore we think it is the right time to back pay them.”
In Kweiku’s flat, we find a novel, Think and Grow deep by Napoleon Hill, by which their objectives are scrawled in the cover that is inside
” Target — desire: i need to get 25,000 cedis $6,690 by the finish of November 2019.
“Purpose/goal: 1. purchase a land of my very own.
“2. Lease a shop and also make it a perfume store.
“Help me personally Lord! many thanks Lord!”
Kweiku additionally dreams of becoming an Afrobeats celebrity.
At a concert that is outdoor Accra, a huge selection of young Ghanians have actually gathered to dance, tune in to music and celebration.
Kweiku takes to the level right in front of a little audience to perform.
“In two decades, i do want to be a large musician around the world, a businessman and use the youth thus I can cause jobs when it comes to youth because that may be the primary thing this is certainly keeping us right back,” he stated.
“that is why our company is indulging ourselves in this scamming and all that.”
For Kweiku, love scam victims are legitimate stones that are stepping their future.
“Sometimes you’re going to be conversing with the individual and you will also feel shame for that individual: ‘wow, this individual, she actually is crying and all of that,'” he said.
“We feel shame, you too, you want money.”
View meet up with the Scammers on Four Corners at 8.30pm on ABC TV and iView tonight.
Reporter: Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Producer: Lesley Robinson
Digital Producer: Brigid Andersen
Digital Design: Georgina Piper
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