Hamid Inusah
In a Southern District of West Virginia, the United States of America, a budding Ghanaian man was found guilty of fraud and money laundering.
The son of Lawyer Inusah Fuseini, a former NDC lawmaker for Tamale Central Constituency, Abdul Hamid Inusah, 31, faces up to 50 years in prison for conspiring with others and scamming people across several states by using fraudulent online personas.
They charged Inusah Hamid with participating in a conspiracy to choose victims by posing as someone else on platforms for social media, dating, and email, according to evidence presented at her trial.
They stated that this plan, which ran from at least January 2018 through at least December 2019, aimed to trick victims into thinking they were involved with one of the bogus personas romantically, amicably, or professionally. For the benefit of the fictitious identities, they duped the victims into sending money for a variety of fraudulent justifications.
One phoney identity, Miramar, is alleged to have been used to trick a resident of Alabama into sending $106,000 in cashier’s checks and wire transfers. The sum comprised $21,000 paid to Bitsav Supply LLC, a fictitious firm created by Inusah, and $48, 000 to pay past-due taxes on an imaginary gold windfall in Ghana. Another fictitious identity.
Grace persuaded a citizen of Washington to wire money so she could keep up her cocoa farm in South Africa and immigrate to America to wed the victim. Residents of Florida and Ohio were also victims of the fictitious identities.
Hamid was found guilty by the jury of two counts of wire fraud, as well as receiving stolen property and conspiring to launder money. The wire fraud counts concern two $2000 Zelle wire payments from funds gained in January 2019 under the fictitious alias “Miarama” to Hamid.
The United States Attorney, Will Thompson, noted that it was “really terrible” how this conspiracy preyed on particularly vulnerable people, such as those who had recently lost a spouse. “Some victims did not recognize themselves as victims and persisted in holding onto the delusion that their interactions with these fictitious people were real.
I applaud the detective work by the West Virginia State Police, the South Charleston Police Department, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General (FDIC- OIG), the United States Secret Service, and the United States Postal Inspection Service.
I commend Assistant United States Attorneys Kathleen Robeson and R. Gregory McVey and our trial team for presenting the jury with this difficult fraud case, “Will Thompson, a lawyer, continued.
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On November 21, 2022, Hamid Inusah will be jailed.
Inusah Fuseini’s family must go through a hard time.
