Following the announcement of Hajia4Real’s extradition from the UK to the US, award-winning television journalist and political critic Bridget Otoo appears to be having a field day.
Mona Faiz Montrage, 30, of Accra, Ghana, appeared in Manhattan federal court on Monday for her suspected participation in a number of romance scams that allegedly targeted elderly people who were living alone, according to the prosecution.
She entered a not guilty plea to the allegations, and according to her attorney, she will be released in the upcoming days on a $500,000 bail with GPS monitoring via an ankle monitor.
The federal government claimed that Montrage was associated with a group of con artists from West Africa from at least 2013 to 2019 who used emails, texts, and social media posts to deceive people into thinking they were in relationships with them using fake identities. At one point, Montrage’s Instagram page Hajia4Reall had about 3.4 million followers.
According to court documents, the con artists would then persuade the victims to send money to them under false pretenses, such as payments to assist phony US Army personnel in Afghanistan, payments to help transport gold into the US from abroad, and payments to end fictitious FBI investigations.
According to court filings, Montrage allegedly conned a victim into transferring her $89,000 over 82 wire transfers under the guise of assisting her father’s farm in Ghana.
After several phone calls using her true identity, she allegedly deceived the person into thinking the pair were married by sending them a tribal marriage certificate.
Prosecutors claim that Montrage also accepted money from several other people who had been defrauded by con artists connected to her network.
In response to this event, Bridget Otoo has since devoted her Twitter timeline to poking fun of Hajia4Real’s dilemma and veiled digs at her.
She underlined the necessity for one to be content with what one has in one of her widely shared tweets.
She also expressed her surprise at how the FBI spent a full decade trying to find and apprehend Hajia4Real in another tweet.
Here are some of Bridget Otoo’s mocking remarks in response to the situation surrounding Hajia4Real’s extradition from the UK to the US.
