Mona Faiz Montrage targeted older people who lived alone, prosecutors say.
A Ghanaian Instagram influencer took part in a fraud scheme which duped vulnerable, elderly Americans out of over $2 million, prosecutors say. Mona Faiz Montrage, 30, has been charged with multiple offenses including wire fraud and money laundering for her role in a series of alleged romance scams, the DOJ said in aMonday.
Between 2013 and 2019, Montrage was part of a group of scammers who would contact victims through online dating and social media apps, make them think they were entering into a romantic relationship, and then start asking for money, prosecutors claim. In one case, Montrage allegedly sent a victim a “tribal marriage certificate” purporting to show that she had married the victim in Ghana. That person sent her around $89,000 via 82 wire transfers, prosecutors claim.
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