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Dede Michael – Real Ghana Scammer – using the name Esther Ansomma
Meet Dede Michael
WE HAVE BEEN CONTACTED BY DEDE MICHAEL – (CLICK MORE BELOW)
Looks like a nice guy, but is reported to be a Ghana Scammer!
He uses the name of Esther Ansomaa or Esther Ansomma
He lives in Accra, Ghana and went to the Accra Academy.
His facebook account doesn’t really say much, like most real Ghana scammers, but feel free to stop by and share your thoughts: https://www.facebook.com/dede.michael.39
The person behind the Esther Ansomma name is one of the more insidious scammers from Ghana.
Here is a collection of photos used with the name Esther Ansomma:
Unfortunately, these are a small sample of photos used by this and other scammers associated with that name. There are literally thousands.
Of course remember, these photos are of real people and were stolen by the scammer!
If you ever meet an Esther Ansomaa online in any dating website – guess what? It’s a scammer!
WE HAVE BEEN CONTACTED BY DEDE MICHAEL:
FIRST MESSAGE:
hi how are you? i am good but not happy. it nice to meet you here any way. i am Mr. Dede Michael. my friend just called me from UK with this link calling me scammer and posting my facebook account there with my picture telling people that i am a scammer? i have evidence right with me. according to this link, i used a certain name and ladies picture. Esther Ansomaa. in fact you can track from face book, this Esther Ansomaa added me and try to talk to me so i wonder why this information tanishing
SECOND MESSAGE:
This is Mr. Dede Michael again, may i please know where or who brought this report here? did you do further investigation? i have to contact my lawyer for tarnishing my image.
OUR REPLY:
We received an email about you from one of our site visitors, and looked at your facebook account. We saw the connection from your account to the Ester Ansomaa account. You were the ONLY person from Africa connected to that fake account – all the other were American, European, or Australians. We reported what we found. We see that you have removed your account from facebook, so we cannot investigate your assertion any further. The matter has been turned over to the U.S. FBI for further investigation. If you can provide any reasonable proof of your statement, we will be happy to remove your information. Our goal is to identify and expose Ghanaian Scammers, and your facebook page had indications of that activity, however since it has been removed we must assume you have something to hide. Since we do not even know if that was your real identity, you are welcome to give us more information about yourself, to prove your point, and if we can verify your honesty, we will print a retraction.
Follow-Up
We received another report that Dede Michael had been at it again. He appears to have created more Facebook accounts as well.
Current Facebook Accounts (we think):
- https://www.facebook.com/dede.michael.73
- https://www.facebook.com/dede.michael.3
- https://www.facebook.com/dede.michael.5
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008754241057
- https://www.facebook.com/dede.michael.52
- https://www.facebook.com/dede.michael.12
While we are only providing information sent to us, we see typical scammer behavior in what this person published online.
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