00:00Have you heard about the word Sakawa?
00:02What does internet fraud and black magic have to do with each other?
00:06If you're probably thinking nothing, well, sorry to break it to you, but you're wrong.
00:12Sakawa is portrayed on social media as a way for young people, some of them, to get
00:17out of poverty and for the practitioners to be able to pop bottles in the club.
00:23Scammers typically target people abroad using fake profiles, emotional manipulation, and
00:29deceptive offers in a bid to extract money from them.
00:41In many ways, Sakawa is like cybercrime.
00:45The main difference is the use of black magic.
00:49Some of the practitioners believe that that would help them increase the chances of scoring
00:54with their victims.
00:55And it's probably worse than what I just demonstrated.
00:59But there's no evidence that magic makes any difference.
01:03Many young people, however, are indifferent or at worst sympathetic to the practice.
01:09Their biggest question remains, where are the jobs?
01:13Lately however, law enforcement has been pushing back.
01:16There has been long prison sentences and arrests of offenders in Ghana and other West African
01:22countries.
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