Sakawa Boys: Meet Ghana’s online romance scammers

Poverty and unemployment are driving Ghana’s youth into the dark underbelly of identity theft and romance scams. — Unsplash

ACCRA: As a teenager, Kasim was the star striker of his school’s football team in Ghana, earning him the moniker Starflex.

But the 22-year-old has since abandoned both his studies and football for a vocation that keeps him up at night: finding and luring victims into online romance scams.