Police have unmasked a league of cyber fraudsters, otherwise known as �Sakawa Boys�, who has over the years specialized in defrauding foreigners under various pretexts.
Two of the suspects- William Quansah, 20, and Eric Kofi alias Sadat Abdulai, 29 � are currently on remand while efforts are underway to track down Godfred Adjei alias Junior, the key player in the scam.
The cover of the three was blown after the one of them posed as husband of a victim sojourning in Ghana and succeeded in defrauding the American-Canadian by name Braenda Liouise Branton, 54, of $37,000.
According to the facts of the case, the three conspired and hacked into the email of the victim�s husband and interacted with her while she was in Canada, indicating that the husband had secured a lucrative contract to be executed.
According to details of the contract purported to have been awarded by Globacom, a telecommunications company in Ghana, the husband was to build dozens of estates and various structures throughout the country.
The amount involved was believed to be running into several millions of dollars and to succeed in their bid, they demanded that Braenda Liouise Branton send down money to pre-finance the project and forged a number of documents to back the claim.
According to information, all this while, Godfred Adjei, currently on the run, posed as the victim�s husband who had been, prior to the execution of the scam, separated from the wife for a number of years.
Convinced her support could reunite them, the victim sold her house and other property valued at $50,000 and sent $35,000 through banker�s draft to the suspects.
Having succeeded in milking the white lady of all her money, they lured her into Ghana under the guise of inspecting work on the ghost or non-existent project sites and also take the opportunity to meet the husband.
On September 2011, she arrived in Ghana and was met at the airport by William Quansah who took her to a hotel around Osu, while Godfred Adjei, on phone, still posed as the husband.
She was later brought to Tamale by suspect Eric Kofi and made to sign several documents purported to have been part of the contractual agreements.
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