Ghana contractor fraud online dating

I kept it secret from my family for two years, but it’s an awful thing to carry around.

She noted, however, that con artists “have the ability to hide or mask their I. addresses using various services and software available to hide their true location and bypass our security checks.”The lure of romance swindlers can be hard to resist, said Ms. “It makes me sound so stupid, but he would be calling me in the evening and at night. We had plans to go to the Bahamas and to Bermuda together.“When I found out it was a scam, I felt so betrayed.“These are threads in all confidence schemes,” said Mr.Farquhar, who is the section’s chief of the intellectual property and cyberenabled crimes. has personnel in a number of countries, including Nigeria and Ghana, where Internet romance swindlers operate.After contacting a possible victim, the swindler tries to avoid detection on the dating site by insisting that communications shift to email, telephone or instant message.Typically, the Internet swindler says he speaks English because he has lived in Europe or the United States and is working as a contractor or builder in Malaysia or another country where he encounters trouble with local authorities.