Sakawa Boys: Meet Ghana’s online romance scammers

Popularity of scams is driven by persistent poverty and a youth unemployment rate of more than 30%.

As a teenager, Kasim was the star striker of his school’s football team in Ghana, earning him the moniker Starflex. But the 22-year-old has since abandoned both his studies and football for a vocation that keeps him up at night: finding and luring victims into online romance scams.

I could make money that way, too,” he added, pointing at Starflex. Agyemam said students who should be in classes can be found chatting with foreigners in internet cafes, hoping to extort cash. In July, the government launched a national school programme to educate students about social media use and cyber risks. Earlier this year Ghana and Nigeria pledged to ramp up efforts in tackling transborder crime, especially cybercrimes such as online scams.

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