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I have been duped by a woman from ghana using this email address ashley.mccy@yahoo.com And goes by the name Ashley McCoy Gaor

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Jun 4, 2012, 05:02 AM
Webmail addresses are free, these people have many, hundreds even. If they are from Ghana and asking you for money then it's a scam.
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Jun 4, 2012, 05:02 AM
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I have been duped by a woman from ghana using this email address ashley.mccy@yahoo.com And goes by the name Ashley McCoy Gaor
Does it matter if THIS one has? they can easily make up new ones as they wish.

Essentially EVERY Ghana dating ploy is a scam....nearly everything from Nigeria is too....

don't want scammed....date someone local so you know its not a man behind the keyboard using a photo they found posted someplace.
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Jun 4, 2012, 06:48 AM


First this is most likely not even "ONE WOMEN" or at times not even a women. Scams from Ghana is a big business. There are large buildings filled with people at computers, they use prepared texts and stories that have been proven to work. There are managers that read over and review communications and suggest things to say. Today you may be chatting with person 1, tomorrow may be their day off and you talk to person 2, but they have all of your texts to review to keep the converstation going. They will take months to sit up a person if it is going along their plan.

The issue I see , this is such a famous scam, been shown on national TV, why will anyone even fall for it still, but they do. And after they do, and figure it out, in a few months you get another email from someone who claims to be in the FBI or some Ghana government, saying that they will be able to get your money back ( guess what for a fee) to file some paper.

The government there cares less, many of the large groups may even control local police.

As for the email address, they have 100's or 1000's of them, change them after one gets too well known And that will not even be a real name of the person.
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Jul 7, 2012, 09:52 PM
No i think you people making false comment i have friend who met ghana woman on internet and they just got married and they arel living in florida pensacola..
smoothy (Jul 8, 2012 06:13 AM): The scam is WELL known....famous in fact. Nothing false about it.. Its been PROVEN. You work for them. Scammer.   Source:This poster is a scammer from Ghana as proven.
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Jul 7, 2012, 09:58 PM
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No i think you people making false comment i have friend who met ghana woman on internet and they just got married and they arel living in florida pensacola..
So one person out of millions is real, but we're making false comments?

No.

look it up. The Ghana dating scam is well known, well documented, and being investigated.
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Jul 7, 2012, 10:09 PM
No i dont think she is a scammed
smoothy (Jul 8, 2012 08:55 AM): Its a scam...and you are a scammer from Ghana. Proven below.   Source:.
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Jul 7, 2012, 10:12 PM
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No i dont think she is a scammed
Like I said, one person out of millions doesn't prove anything.

Look it up. Most online relationships with people from Ghana are scams, same as Nigeria.

Your friend got lucky, he's one out of a million that didn't get scammed. But 99.9% of these online relationships are scams.
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Jul 7, 2012, 10:12 PM


Really? Check this out...

Romance Scams | Embassy of the United States Accra, Ghana
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Jul 8, 2012, 05:34 AM


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No i dont think she is a scammed
Nice Try. But a trace of your IP just helps support that this is a scam. BUSTED!
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