28-year-old Tamale resident listed among 30-most-wanted online fraudsters in USA
- The U.S. has blacklisted a Ghanaian among most wanted online dating fraudsters
- Maxwell Atugba Abayeta is complicit in other cases of money laundering and wire fraud
- The 28-year-old Ghanaian man is resident of Tamale in the Northern Region
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Information has emerged of a 28-year-old Ghanaian staying in Tamale listed among the 30 most wanted online fraudsters in the United States.
Maxwell Atugba Abayeta, popularly known as Mawxell Peter, according to the United Stated Department of Justice, was indicted by the District Court of Tennessee with “conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft”.
Source: UGC
The Victim Witness Protection Program of the United States District Court of Tennessee has thus blacklisted Maxwell Atuguba Abayeta as month the over 30 persons complicit in online dating scams – with victims mostly in the United States.
“The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee is prosecuting numerous individuals in connection with an international fraud perpetrated, in part, through online dating websites. If you have sent or been asked to send money to or on behalf of the following, you may be a victim in this case,” excerpts of the statement read.
Source: Facebook
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On their official Facebook page, the ministry revealed that all positive persons with the virus are healthy and fit as more details on this emerging story will be made to the nation on Sunday, July 4th.
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Delta Variant of Covid
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The origin of the Delta Variant is India. The populous nation has had its hospitals overstretched, nearing collapse of health systems amid rising cases of over 500 deaths on a daily average.
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