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ByGabriela Pomeroy and Thomas Naadi, BBC Africa, Reporting fromAccra
  • Published27 October 2026, 18:43 GMT
Updated 1 hour ago

Twin brothers from Ghana and an American woman have pleaded guilty to being part of an international criminal network that defrauded people on dating sites and social media.

The group targeted elderly people in the US and Europe, using fake identities to lure their victims into believing they were in a romantic relationship, before persuading them to transfer large sums of money into bank accounts in Ghana.