Ghanaian Pleads Guilty to Role in $100m Romance Scam
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A Ghanaian national, Derrick Van Yeboah, pleaded guilty for participating in a global fraud ring that used romance scams and business email compromise (BEC) to defraud victims and launder proceeds; the operation is said to have caused over $100M in losses with Van Yeboah personally linked to about $10.1M in restitution/forfeiture. The report highlights the growing scale of romance fraud and BEC globally, cites FBI statistics on related losses, and situates this case within wider transnational scam networks.
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