Girl Boss fingered in $6Milllion fraud …grabbed by FBI

A popular Snapchat influencer, ‘Girl Boss’ known for living large and trotting around the world on luxurious vacations has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)  in America over her suspected role in a $6 million online romance and investment scam.

The Ghanaian lady, formally known as Whitney Adams, is accused of being an accomplice in the money laundering syndicate that lures unsuspecting persons to part with their live savings.

Another Ghanaian, whose name was given as Flava Annang and believed to be mother of Girl Boss was also arrested as an accomplice.

It is believed more accomplices would be picked up.

Girl Boss resides in both the USA and Ghana.

According to reports, she and her accomplices assist online scammers in defrauding people based in US by providing  the account details of her mother’s company as a conduit for the scam.

After the money lands in the accounts, they take their share and send the rest to the other accomplices in Ghana.

The FBI says Girl Boss and her partner have made over $6 million dirty money  through a range of fraudulent actions conducted online  with  her scammer accomplices.

Details of court filings in Arizona read:

“Flavia Annang and Whitney Adams and their co-conspirators operated a romance and inheritance fraud in the District of Arizona, and elsewhere, from a time unknown, but at least July 2018, and until April 7, 2022,” according to the court papers.

“Unknown co-conspirators created phony online dating profiles and personas to engage in online chats, text messaging, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls, and other activities with unwitting Victims located in the United States in order to persuade those Victims they were involved in an online romantic relationship with a real person,” the complaint continued.

“These unsuspecting Victims were mainly elderly or older men,” according to the document.

It said “the Victims were then persuaded by ANNANG’s and ADAMS’ co-conspirators to pay money to, or on behalf of, those phony love partners in order to collect a fake inheritance that was allegedly entitled to the romantic partner. The Victims were told that the money would be used to pay attorney’s fees, customs duties, government fees, taxes, or other expenses related to “releasing” the inheritance, and that they would share in the eventual inheritance or that the “inheritance” proceeds would allow the fake romantic partner to join the Victim in the United States.”

 The Victims were given addresses to mail checks to as well as bank accounts to wire money or deposit checks to, all of which were controlled by ANNANG, ADAMS, or other co-conspirators. The Victims’ money was subsequently fraudulently transferred and/or held by ANNANG, ADAMS, and the co-conspirators, with no “inheritance” proceeds being remitted in exchange.

The MDSBR listed ADAMS as the Registered Agent for McWells Auto Logistics, LLC on January 11, 2021. ANNANG and ADAMS both opened and maintained multiple domestic bank accounts to accept and negotiate monies given by victims of these phony romance scams.”

“When ANNANG and ADAMS received Victim funds, they would use their various bank accounts to accept bank wire or bank deposits, or deposit mail-in checks, and then disperse the funds to other accounts or to locations outside of the United States, all of which was done, at least in part, to conceal the nature, source, and control of those assets.”

One of the victims was duped out of $283,000 between 2018 and 2020, according to the FBI investigation. Another victim is claimed to have had roughly lost $5 million between 2015 and 2022 in the hopes of assisting his internet girlfriend in collecting a $10,000 gold inheritance.

“Victim #1, a 67-year-old man from Sierra Vista, Arizona, was duped into transferring money for fees to release an inheritance belonging to his internet lover when he fell victim to an inheritance scam. Victim #1 transferred more than $283,000 to various individuals via wire transfers and other ways between July 2018 and June 2020, according to bank records, in a failed attempt to claim the inheritance. Victim #1 submitted money to Gulit Bonx Enterprise, Inc., a Massachusetts-based company.