Hajia 4 Reall has entered a guilty plea to romance scam, according to news that reached .
As per an official report from the US Attorney’s Office, on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MONA FAIZ MONTRAGE had entered a guilty plea for her role in laundering the money obtained from several romance scams.
“MONTRAGE pled guilty today to conspiracy to receive stolen money before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave,” the report said.
Damian Williams said “Mona Faiz Montrage knowingly received money stolen from older Americans through romance scams and was arrested abroad and now faces serious consequences for her actions.
Romance scams such as Montrage’s harmed her vulnerable, elderly victims not only in the cruel betrayal of trust in the realization that their online romantic connection was fiction, but by also callously stealing their money.
“This Office and our law enforcement partners are relentless in bringing fraudsters who target Americans to justice, no matter where they are,” the U.S attorney concluded.
Hajia 4 Reall is said to have pled guilty to one count of conspiring to receive stolen money, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
The Ghanaian influencer also agreed to pay forfeiture for $2,164,758.41 and make restitution in the same amount. Hajia 4 Reall is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty.
According to U.S prosecutors, from at least in or about 2013 through in or about 2019, Hajia 4 Reall was a member of a criminal enterprise (the “Enterprise”) based in West Africa that committed a series of frauds against individuals and businesses in the U.S., including romance scams.
Many of the elderly, single men and women who fell victim to romance scams at the Enterprise were weak targets. The Enterprise routinely tricked victims into thinking they were in a romantic relationship with someone who had a false identity that members of the Enterprise had taken on by sending them texts, emails, and social media messages.
Several victims of romance scams who were duped into sending money by members of the Enterprise are alleged to have given money to Hajia 4 Reall. Payments to transfer gold from abroad to the United States were one of the many deceptive pretenses used to coerce victims into sending money to Hajia 4Reall.
Overall, the mother of one managed a bank account that was credited with more than $2 million in fraudulent money.
Source: Shinemegh.com/PulseGh.com
