It is amazing to read that certain people in this contemporary society still fall victim of the usual scam circulating on the internet. I get more than a hundred of scam mails in my inbox each week. You must be getting some too….
Surprisingly, these scammers use a common unreasonable pattern of either having some bulk of money packed in some bank and wanting to transfer it to you or some extra beautiful girl popping up in your inbox looking for love.
The case below seems not to be any of the above but it is still some random Africa (Ghana) internet girl seeking love and has some money to throw into her new life with her new love. (And he believed this? Wow)
It sounds so sad that an old American fell victim of such a scam thereby remitted all his money and even the ones he didn’t have to his Ghanaian lover and allegedly killed himself out of frustration. I guess 419 has come to stay in our world of today, be on guard, if it is too good to be true, then surely it is indeed not true.
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Yonkers, NY (WABC) — A New York father is dead and his family believes it’s all because he was sucked into an international romance and money scheme (419), causing him to lose everything and even steal from relatives.
“I saw him sitting in a chair with a bullet in his head,” Peter Circelli said.
Circelli believes his father, Al, felt he had no way out, committing suicide in the living room of his Yonkers home after realizing a romance to riches fantasy he’d bought into was a scam.
It was only after Peter started going thru his father’s belongings that the son discovered his dad’s shocking secret, starting with a pile of western union money transfers to the country of Ghana, a notorious location for romance scams.
“They say Ghana, $300. Ghana, $200,” he explained. “We’ve added them all up and they come to the sum of $50,000.” On Circelli’s laptop, his son discovered email photos and messages supposedly from a woman calling herself Aisha, who promised to come here and start a new life, giving the divorced retired businessman a future and a fortune.
“She had money in a bank and was going to transfer the money to him,” Circelli said.
But first, she claimed she needed money transferred to her in Ghana via someone named Nulu Suleman for expenses. At some point, Al Circelli ran out of his own money, and started taking it from his son.
He took out credit cards in his son’s name and got advances. Peter’s credit is “above and beyond destroyed.”
Peter is a respected small business owner who runs a successful body shop and towing company in Englewood, New Jersey. He owns the home his father lived in, and just discovered his father had stopped making mortgage payments.
“This house is in foreclosure. I’m most likely going to lose this house,” he said. “It’s destroyed me. It’s destroyed my family.”
The day Al Circelli killed himself, he thought Aisha would be arriving on a Delta flight. She, of course, never showed up.
“What he did because of something like this, I can’t even imagine it,” Circelli said.
And in one final bizarre twist on Tuesday, Peter found a message on his dad’s laptop from Nulu Suleman saying Aisha, or Shanda, had killed herself — “blown her head off in Chicago.”
“It can’t be tracked. These people are like ghosts and the damage these people have caused, they shouldn’t be able to cause in other people’s lives,” Circelli said. “To see him go down like this, to think there are other families who might have to go through something like this, I have to open my mouth. I can’t hide no more.”
For more information on romance scams originating in Ghana, please visit these websites:
www.romancescam.com/forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romancescams
Ghana.USembassy.gov (Information for travelers)
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shaize the girl has chopped money ooo.. Ow may his soul rest in peace. lmaoo
shaking my damn head!!!!
@goodies, Sad indeed. This girl looks South American and the photo backgrounds don’t look like Ghana at all. What the hell was this man thinking. PURE SAKAWA. For all you know it was a guy in Ghana who was doing the scam and not a woman.
you meet someone online, they got loads of diamonds in africa or money left by his corrupt minister uncle. you want a share on that fortune huh?…….greedy twat! it may sound harsh, but some of these people are looking to continue with the exploitation of africa. so they agree to give personal details for the money to be laundered. at the end of the day, they get rinsed themselves. i pity those looking for genuine love and get tangled in this scam tho. on PANORAMA, one british woman had to re mortgage her house for 500, 000 pounds, sent the money to some bloke in ghana, whom she thought was a general in the us army. caput! i felt for her, no house, no money and no love. godfathers advice; if you looking for love and you real, go out and meet “REAL” people and if you think you smart and want Mr Olusegun’s money in the swiss bank, good luck. and to all you fraudsters giving a bad name to ghana, nija and africa, hope the MET and SOCA get you litttle cockroaches.
u right oboy. but the fact of the is that the whites too r corrupt thats why the want that moeny too. we ghanaian shud try some clean way . there r millions of job on the and we shud try that and stop this. check out my blog. click on my name and u will get der.
ma only comment is that those who fall victims to these scams are plain stupid. i knw this might not go down well wif some people but thats ma opinion and i have a right to have it.
just lyk chris said in his open statement he has received loads of scam mails and so has all of us who hold email accounts.by reading two of those, u’ll realise they all have the same content,the same message and same wording. if it’s not about finding your profile somewhere and being interested in u, it’s about some money stacked somewhere for u or u winning some promotion. why will u send money to someone who says u’ve won a promotion or raffle? if it’s a promotion or raffle,basic common sense tells me u don’t pay any form of money to claim a prize u win by such means.
as an Information Systems Professional, i’ll also give dese pointers.any email sent frm an organisation bears a corporate indentification including the corporate email of that organisation.u’ll not have an email from Microsoft with the senders address being yahoo,hotmail, gmail, live etc. so u’ll get something lyk [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] etc.
if u feel an email looks too good to be true, visit the companies website and find out if they’re indeed running such a promotion. u can do this by googling the company name.
at the appropriate tym, i’ll send a comprehensive write-up on internet scam and how to avoid them.don’t fall for scams, be vigilant.
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ok guys no more scams. infact this is not the best for ghana. lets find a clean way of makin money on the . checkout my blog to get more. just click on my profile it will take u der.
this ain’t funny
Some of these men are so stupid. Even some women are scammed and all. Why is that going on?! People don’t think! Does this chick in the picture look Ghanaian? This man should have been wiser than this.
its probably easy to say these people are idiots, some of them probably are. but the truth of the matter is, most people in the so called western world, because of busy lifestyles and all have all but forgotten the art of going out to meet someone. online dating is a norm, just as making friends on facebook and other social networking sites. what happened to the good old fashioned going out to meet new people? if they aint got no teeth, or if they are midgets, then you know all there is to them. this is organised crime, they build friendship, trust and strike and leave the victims penniless or worse even dead. its estimated 1 in 5 letters from ghana to the uk is fraudulent. this surely affects genuine businesses in ghana. ISP’s in ghana and the police need to come together to fight these scumbags.
@dagodfather,Well said. Well said. GP has a lot of work to do if they surely want to curb these crimes…lots of modernized advanced IT equipments are needed.
This is so damn sad. I feel for this man’s family. With scams like these the Ghanaian communities throughout the US will definitely gain a negative reputation. If you think it is difficult getting a visa to visit the USA now, wait until some senator takes up the campaign against 419 romance scam and see the weight of this on honest Ghanaian. We can say whatever we like; that someone is stupid, etc. The truth is that it is the honest people on both sides that will suffer the consequences of these scams.
the nigerians in ghana who are doing this
@JayFed, wtf are u on about? why mention Nigerians? the article clearly did not mention Nigeria, if u have nothing 2 say as regards to the above post, the least u can do is keep ur silly comments to urself…no need to start something else (which u probably cannot finish)
@JayFed, you’re so funny you want to bring another problem between nigerian and ghana again. but good one
@JayFed, i think the nigerians in ghana, because our people never do such a thing.
i wonder how this people feel when they scam other innocent people while they work hard for there earnings one of the reason why Gh is getting a bad name all because of this and the country trhat started with this 419 bullshit lucky enough i got a IP detector that can find out where person is playing about
oh man this is sad , by now go see they somewhere in nima shoopin and eatin at the best chop bars , this world paaaa
Why the heck will such a respectable white american fall for such a stupid scam like that, When he can go out and find some one his own age. I hope the man is at peace and i hope whoever did this ends up getting caught or something.
This is so sad but why will he kill himself it is a sin to commit suicide or take your own life so Only God can Judge and ONLY $50,000.00 and he has killed himself what about the ones they have been scammed $10M and more what should they do, they are even still alive and only 50,000 and you kill yourself na waa ooh Rest In Prefect Peace. One Love
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THIS IS THE HANDY WORK OF THOSE STUPID NIGERIANS,THEY EVEN DO IT TO US HERE.HOW DARE U PEOPLE DISGRACE US LIKE THAT.IDIOTS! NKWASIASEM.
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