According to information gathered by gonjamedia.com, Hajia 4 Reall has pleaded guilty to romance scam.
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 stated.
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 US attorney came to a conclusion.
It is reported that Hajia 4 Reall entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to receive stolen money, which involves a five-year maximum jail sentence.
The Ghanaian influencer additionally consented to make compensation in the same amount and forfeit $2,164,758.41. Paul A. Crotty, the U.S. District Judge, will sentence Hajia 4Reall.
U.S. prosecutors claim that Hajia 4Reall was a part of a criminal organization (the “Enterprise”) based in West Africa that perpetrated a number of frauds against people and companies in the U.S., including romance scams, from at least in or about 2013 through at least in or about 2019.
Many of the elderly, single men and women who fell victim to romance scams at the Enterprise were vulnerable targets. The Enterprise routinely tricked victims into thinking they were in a romantic connection with someone who had a false identity that members of the Enterprise had taken on by sending them texts, emails, and social media communications.
Several victims of romance scams who were duped into giving money by members of the enterprise are alleged to have given money to Hajia 4Reall. Payments to transfer gold from overseas to the United States were one of the many deceptive pretenses used to coerce victims into sending money to Hajia 4Reall.
Over $2 million in fraudulent money was received by the mother of one account from the Enterprise.
